I’m in the UK and have always, always, always been lucky enough to have a home in which I could still cook and keep warm if we had a power cut. But then, I’ve lived through several very cold winters, and several years of power cuts. In the past I’ve lent spare gas heaters to friends and neighbours during such times too.

If I did live in an all electric home, I would have a camping stove, and a potable gas fire, just incase… plus loads of food in the cupboards!

Yesterday at the local supermarket, after I’d done my weekly shop, an old gent came up to me, and in a charming way, asked me if I had stocked up, as we have snow coming in this weekend and it could, “… be a bad un if you live up in them there hills…”, thankfully, I no longer do.

Problem is, people just don’t seem to think for them selves these days…

Cymraes, nice and snug (no snow yet…) in the Welsh Marches, UK.