Well, there is this:
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Or, if you’re really nerdy:
How about a small petrol generator such as the ones from honda, or cheaper a small one from Lidl for under 100 bucks. They will charge an iphone, run your computer and provide light as well. You might even be able to boil a small kettle, although not all at once. They are very quiet, not like my 12KVa beast, but better than sitting in the dark.
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It was 17 degrees here yesterday, a little cooler today. Maybe I will keep my t-shirts at the ready 
Our escape from Brigadoon was short-lived.
However, we ended up in Perigueux in 22c sunshine, swiftly stripping off our coats and layers (some of them anyway)… 3 hours later the rain came back and we have (once again) returned to the dark, damp, misty country village we call home… 
and thrilled that I left the CH on low, 'cos the sunshine and “heatwave” never got this far… 
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Now we have Tempête Fabien arriving this weekend…
Stay safe everyone.
Now we have Tempête Fabien arriving this weekend…
Stay safe everyone.
Isn’t he the one that sells you insurance ? 
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Fabien, c’est notre pépite de bonheur.
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I’m sure he is, & he has many good comments from members on here.
Pretty wild winds here at the mo & we’re not in a weather alert area. Hoping that all are safe & sound & don’t have to claim on their insurance policies.
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The wind has changed direction here in 56…electric still on thankfully and only dipped once today…the water supplied to the front of my house and my kitchen and hot water boiler via a little local syndicat went off the day after my electric went off but has come back on this morning…
wasn’t sure whether I would be without hot water over Crimbo
I ventured out to shop for enough supplies to see me and my Collies through Crimbo and new year and also to put €25 diesel in my car…I’ve resisted panic buying feeling that there are others who maybe need fuel more than I do and although I’m happier to maintain a full tank €25 has put me back on 3 quarters…
I’ve never yet claimed on my house insurance…several years ago with no electric to our commune for 48 hours I just chose to throw out stuff in the freezer that I didn’t fancy eating but anything meat based or fish based went to my raw fed Border Collies…
Recycling my glass was quite a challenge today…I have to drive to recycle glass and the unit is really exposed to the elements…was almost blown off my feet…! 
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Any of our forum members in the Pyrenees ??
20 houses badly damaged in this village…
Next door had no indoor sanitation when we bought our house here in 2005. She had a commode in the barn which was emptied into a gully running under the courtyard and into the fields.
They didn’t change it until she had a heart attack ten years later.
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Gosh, we have had a windy day or two, but you really seem to have taken the brunt of this awful weather in the South West.
I hope all of you are keeping safe.
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Exactly what most of the hamlet did in 1987, you would always see terds in the little stream that goes though the middle of the hamlet. Something I found amusing was that whilst installing a fosse septic to the house I was living in the neighbours that put their N° 2s in the stream called out the GD’s crying it was un hygienic. lol.
If you’re flying today… avoid this cloud formation
https://www.facebook.com/155562191123948/posts/3775452575801540/
Beautiful to look at … but… oh dear… 
Dangerous clouds and C-19 looks like Mother Nature is getting angry 
with us