We are entering the Boracic Age. Prices are rising fast and everyone is skint.
Best strategy for power backup in case of cuts?
Sep 22, 2026
Last reply: 4 weeks ago
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but when?
I was looking out the upstairs office window,m when I saw a ginormous bunny eating my flowers. I seized my trusty airgun and dropped it with a single shot, and then went back to work
The following morning I went down to collect it but apart from a bare leg bone and some ribs *absolutely nothing was left*.
The countryside here is littered with wildlife. It is not uncommon to find the odd deer or fox skull, But no corpse survives more than a day. Except for the odd one the wildlife doesn't like the smell of.
Foxes, weasels, stoats, red kites, buzzards, carrion crows, badgers - none of these is going to pass up on a free meal,
I think you have to be of a certain age to understand that reference. ;-)
Tim
Plus 1. Although I favour lamps with replaceable batteries as I keep a fair stock of charged batteries as standby.
Give our regards to Bill. Kinda miss the old curmudgeon.
Tim
The fun starts if you have to change batteries in total darkness. BTDTGTTS. ;-)
This is when having a second backup head torch becomes invaluable.
Tim
These are as cheap as chips. Handy to have around.
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Or candles. I have noticed that townies panic in the dark.
Country people have matches, candles, and paraffin lamps, and plenty of batteries as well
Indeed. somewhere I have one of these. or similar
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Growing up in Edinburgh (in the 1950s), where we had frequent power cuts. I was brought up with candles and paraffin lamps. We also have a camping cooker using a gas cylinder and a significant number to torches.
Well Edinburgh is just an oversized village, really.
Today's urban Greens couldn't find their own arses in the dark with both hands without LEDs and USB chargers and ...and...
Wusses all.
Hi Adam,
Do you do Solar & battery installs and are you MCS accredited?
Will do. I'll be calling in to see him and Helen this week.
Adam
But when the s*it has hit the fan, they won't be available anymore
Wood still will be and will keep growing
Many years ago, when oour lad was about 10, we had a power cut at night.
He was astounded when SWMBO and I casually went to under the sink, found the candles and lit them using a saucer as a holder.
That was when I explained to him about getting home from school in the
70s to light the candles for when my Mum got home.
Or a second head wearing a torch (another person's head of course - unless you are Zaphod Beeblebrox).
"Currently out of stock". I wonder how many people read your post?
I had a mental image of buying some of those on Ebay - from some guy who kept a large stock of them - in his 11th floor flat.
Or earlier, Joe-Jim Gregory.
The bloody elastic fails long before the hardware fails :-(
I have Dads eye protection mask, made in the UK decades ago and the elastic is still perfect. Buy a new one in the sheds and within a couple of years the Chinese elastic is no longer elastic.
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