The difference was that the Danes went to England and the Norse came to Ireland . In the West the rain comes in at all angles.. simultaneously!!!. . Remember we have 4000 miles of sea between us and the nearest land , enough to get a stiff breeze. Whereas Wales has a paltry 60 miles . Moreover we get more GulfStream so that the moisture content is higher. The only comparable bits in the UK is Lands end . And off the Scottish coastI've never been to the Emerald Isle at all, but I hope to someday. I'm sure that like Wales it's picturesque, dramatic, and also features raindrops flying at ear-filling trajectories. I can't recall that old Norse legend about the West of Ireland at the moment
Brexit, for once some facts.
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Not as big a deal as you might think any more. The base stations for GSM do have a few days worth of battery power , and solar panels work extremely well. Take today for instance .. We are in near hurricane conditions with Storm Barra , and yet my 3.6KW peak panels actually generated 1.1KW hrs during today'
Very interesting - how many hours did that take? Sounds to me like you're well situated for wind power!
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Someone I know was refused planning permission to install a wind generator on his roof, so his plan to use cheap old submarine batteries for his house power supply, is no more.
Not exactly a desirable approach - I'd have to go outside to burn wood. And dry wood is, in a simple word, absent.
since when?
you misinterpreted my question.
I don't see everything France does as admirable or for altruistic reasons because it's my country. I only posted about them when the context and reasons behind these things were missing or misunderstood.
For example, the scallop war, when French fishers can't harvest scallops in early summer months while English fishers scraped their seabed and landed their catch at the Norman ports. Another example is when Macron cast doubt on the safety of the AZ vaccine and recently, the use of the word 'illegal' in illegal migrants.
There is certainly no dry wood to be found when camping in Wales! One of my mates blew at some steaming sodden wood for 5 hours continuously, until he actually dried it out and caught flame. All that blowing must have kept him warm, the rest of us were freezing, and yelling that it wouldn't work. Mental note for myself: Stockpile coal, it burns better than beans and TVP...
I've been meaning to install one of these in the shed - in an emergency I suppose I could fashion a flue for it in the house:
...In the house, I'd have replace one of the double glazed window panels with a steel sheet, with a hole for the flue.
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You don't seem to have fully understood, all current copper landlines are being converted to a form of VOIP. It isn't a choice. We never use the landline phone - it just gets the odd spam call. (We have never given out the phone number.) More than anything else, it is our emergency line. There is no change to our broadband contract.
Sorry, I thought you were being ripped off - I've been broadband only for years. Sipgate works very well by the way, you get a local area code number and you can connect using an app on your phone, via any network you might have. I give that number out for everything. I never answer it, and all voicemail messages are emailed as .MP3 files. Bloody excellent.
I can't think of any takeouts we'd order! Definitely not MacD, KFC, Domino's, though there are a few restaurants which might be OK.
They would wouldn't they.
Probably not too chuffed at Pfizer being the booster after two AZs.
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Nowadays, I have no real need for anything other than my mobile. Keeps it simple and means we never answer each other's calls.
Just good to have an emergency line in case phone is dead, maintenance on mobile tower (have just had an SMS about that for this weekend), or anything else.
Far better to look for fungi - many are good, King Alfred's cakes, Artist's conk, lots of brackets.
Maybe as storms worsen, restaurants will accept orders via CB radio... but I'm not doomsday prepping quite that much, yet.
I KNEW you were holding out on me about fungi! I've got a book called "Food For Free", but the illustrations are very badly hand drawn, the photos are apalling and there's every chance I'd kill myself if I relied on them to feed myself. I've read that even fungal experts sometimes poison themselves. I do wish I knew more about edible fungibles... Are there nettles out? You can easily survive for a couple of weeks eating nettles, and they're actually the most delicious green I've ever tasted (when picked at the right time) - far nicer than spinach. Plus, nettles have higher protein content.
Norse also came to Pembrokeshire. Wales also has a direct blast when the wind is from around SW to almost S. And the nearest land in those directions are Dominican Republic/Puerto Rico towards 7000 km away.