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The horse has been sold to someone who wanted a good sized riding horse. I suspect that the animal never really adapted to pulling a vehicle.

My local authority have declared a major incident due to the scale of the flooding. No direct impact on me, but the local disruption is significant

I am aware of several homes built by doomers with resistance to extreme weather being designed in, all have survived recent events. One useful technique is an internal wall of load bearing brick or block and then to continue this wall up the ridge of the roof which is thereby supported. The gable en...

Back in the old days, most UK electricity was from coal, the number of units running was adjusted to match demand and the need for storage minimised. Short term peaks or sudden breakdowns were handled by increasing the output from plant already in operation, and by the limited pumped storage then ex...

A number of relatively modern buildings have suffered significant damage. In my view, a detailed inspection of the remains should be undertaken to establish if the design and construction complied with the then current building regulations, if not, prosecution of the guilty parties should be conside...

Severe weather again. Area is under an amber warning for wind, and with a second amber warning coming into force tomorrow. Electricity cut off, some roads closed by fallen trees. Ample stocks of food and most fuel. Petrol store now empty as only 30 litres may be stored and this has now been used for...

Trumped one might say.

A rare red weather warning has been issued for some northern parts of the UK and for Northern Ireland. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ye2jpjx03o Yellow warnings, are in my view not normally worthy of report or comment on these fora, they mean in effect "expect seasonal weather" Ambe...

The proposed umped storage scheme would have extremely useful on the last day or two. Wind power dropped to 0.1GW for several hours, the lowest that I recall for this time of year. 1.3 GW from pumped storage would have saved a useful amount of gas. The water would have lasted until the wind returned...

AFAIK, the chocolate was generally dropped on the final approach to the runway. Delivering coal by air is not particularly efficient but justified in wartime. Coal was vital to West Berlin as a lot of public transport was electric trams, and the power stations burnt coal. In order to speed landing o...

ANOTHER major fire has broken out in the LA area, evacuations underway.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj029138n4zo

Cold war film about the berlin airlift, an operation that saved West berlin from the russians. I doubt that the next war will be like that, but it illustrates the importance of air transport in emergencies. The only omission that I noticed, was no mention of non breakable supplies being dropped from...

News reports state that convict labour HAS been used to assist in firefighting in LA. Sounds a good idea, some of the convict firefighters have expressed an interest in joining the fire department after serving their sentence.

I am pleased to report that another aid convoy has arrived from Poland, including goods sent from the UK via Poland. Another large supply of shoulder launched anti-tank rockets, these weapons found ineffective against modern tanks, but very useful against light fortifications and buildings. WW2 type...

They graze on grass and are fed hay and prepared horse food that contains oats. The thinner horse is allowed to eat what it wants, the slightly fatter one has unlimited grazing and hay, plus a restricted amount of prepared food.