Passed away 28/10/2026. Remembered fondly as Captain Picard in StarTrek TNG, and as Professor Xavier in the X Men movies.

"Make it so."

Vocals not really my cup of decaf, and I suspect Martin has run for cover

Annoyingly I had to dump 5 UPS units when clearing out my Spanish flat. Couldn't put them into storage and couldn't ship them to the UK even if I could.

Our little Cavachon hates the koala bear in the cushelle advert, he even looked behind the telly to see where it's hiding.

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Gas BBQ,
three primus gas stoves + spare canisters,
generator,
two freezers rammed with food,
two kitchen cupboards rammed with bottles & cans,
bottled water,
loo roll,
kitchen roll,...

that's just our normal life. 

Oh, & four shotguns, two rifles & an air rifle.

What!! And no tin foil for a hat?

We live in an isolated location.

We regularly get short power cuts, once/twice a year longer ones, worst was 24hrs.

We can get iced/snowed in, worst was four days.

What we have is just common sense given our location.

Tony Iommi with the amazing Jorn Lande on vocals.

We've got a winner!

Quote from: emjaybee on October 28, 2026, 09:26:10 PMWell,...

Gas BBQ,
three primus gas stoves + spare canisters,
generator,
two freezers rammed with food,
two kitchen cupboards rammed with bottles & cans,
bottled water,
loo roll,
kitchen roll,...

that's just our normal life. 

Oh, & four shotguns, two rifles & an air rifle.

What!! And no tin foil for a hat?

Lovely photos. The middle one actually made me laugh out loud!

Sadly we are without furry companions now.  Having some cat-free time at the moment but I ssuspect we will adopt another rescue or two in the future.

Nathan was always willing to check and advise: "Let me see why the traverser isn't moving....?"


Suki thought train sets were boring and would sleep on mine



Yoshi was my furry assistant

Since the announcement of the PSTN (Fixed telephony) switch off was announced I started looking at how we could call the emergency service as should the power go down. Our mobile signal is dodgy at best and what signal there is goes after twenty minutes.

OK, I've gone over the top but with my solar panels and house battery with blackout backup it depends on the weather how many days we could go without mains power. I'm now looking at a vehicle to load (V2L) adaptor for the EV. It won't power the house but it could run a electric heater or a kettle for weeks.

The worry that the battery app could be hacked is what's driving the V2L adaptor as the car doesn't connect to the WiFi and the onboard sim can't get a signal when at home so no hack risk there.