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Are we a bunch of heathens?

I was looking at the 2011 entries for the Turner Art prize and thought to myself ‘This is one thing I wouldn’t miss if there was an event’. It is usually, and was again this year, a total load of rubbish put out for a prize. Like the Oscars where they want to award people […]

The UK makes a good place for a Survival retreat

Here in the UK the weather isn’t really all that extreme. We get about four or five weeks of cold with snow and ice in the winter, normally just in the minus figures, and we get about six or seven weeks in the summer with sun, about 18°C, and odd summer showers. Average temperatures for […]

I am into Self Sufficiency not Survivalism

Survivalists are portrayed in the media as tin foil hat nutters. Mad and bad we are not seen as anything that fits in a decent society. It matters not to the media that a higher proportion of Survivalists than the average in society itself are hard working and industrious. They see us as wanting to […]

Testing your assumptions

In my real life role I work in IT. I’ve worked for several companies on several different projects including Disaster Recovery and Contingency Planning and one of the most consistent risks was that very few of them have ever tested their contingency plans and tested them as if it was a real disaster. They can […]