I'm back !

[AtW]

I would still have more business acumen

I would agree that you are full of business acumen.

[Troll]

So, did anyone see my little island abode on the news ? Famous for being the only place in the country still without electricity after the storms on Monday night/Tuesday.
Well, the lights are back on and I can have a shower again Phew........

Saw it on the news last night - you people never heard of generators? I would have thought with the regularity of storms & the abundance of tractors up there a PTO gen would be high on the list of must have for households

Even though being in relatively tranquil Kent, I have one to keep the CH running and a few light circuits in emergencies

[Old Greg]

If I was thrown through the windscreen of a car at 100 miles an hour, then trampled on the head by a herd of escaped wilderbeest from the local zoo and then run over by a run-away steam roller from an 1900's engineering show I would still have more business acumen left in my soup based based brain then you have ever managed to garner in your 20 years of squirrel shagging, potato snorting, steriod sofa injecting life, Telegraph life reading have managed.

Just saying and no offence like.

Prove it.

[Troll]

WTS.

I've got two.

And a camping gaz stove or two.

And several camping gaz lights.

And 3 tons of baked beans, 15 shotguns and 15,000 rounds of ammo.

You know it makes sense.

The minefield in the drive is not currently active though.

Not sure about the minefield - it would deprive you of a source of emergency (although immoral) source of protein if things got really tough!

[cojak]

Not sure about the minefield - it would deprive you of a source of emergency (although immoral) source of protein if things got really tough!

Probably shares the same socket as the Xmas tree lights...

[Old Greg]

Probably shares the same socket as the Xmas tree lights...

He's probably wired the mines in series as well, so when one blows, he has to test them all individually. Good job he's got all those students in the cellar.

[TestMangler]

Saw it on the news last night - you people never heard of generators? I would have thought with the regularity of storms & the abundance of tractors up there a PTO gen would be high on the list of must have for households

Even though being in relatively tranquil Kent, I have one to keep the CH running and a few light circuits in emergencies

Given that it's the first time we've been without electricity in the seven years I've lived here, it's not particularly high on the list of priorities to be honest. Bute is not exactly regularly hit by storms. It's not the bloody Shetland Islands

Got the usual collection of stoves, lamps etc obviously.

Most of the problem was caused by them not being able to access certain areas on the mainland where the power distribution had failed. Still, helps keep the population down

[TimberWolf]

Hmm, not sure what to make of this picture

bute, uk - Google Maps

Looks nasty though.

[Troll]

Hmm, not sure what to make of this picture

bute, uk - Google Maps

Looks nasty though.

Hmmm birthplace of Lena Zavaroni- didn't know that!

Resident population 7,228 (ish depending if TM is home or away)

[TestMangler]

Hmmm birthplace of Lena Zavaroni- didn't know that!

Resident population 7,228 (ish depending if TM is home or away)

Were you a fan then ?