Thank God for Chris, Minime and Frozenny

My first PM on Equipped was to Doug saying that most UK residents thought "American Survival Types" went to the mall with an M16 with a thousand rounds 'just in case'. I don't actually believe this, but TV does reinforce this perception.

In the UK we're OK, because if you have a gun you're in deep doo doo - and the idea of stashing a handgun where a child might fimd it is abhorrent.

However, I'm all for preparing roadside stashes. I live in Central England and I have a cottage in the North Wales mountains, 100 miles away, there are 3 stashes en route.

On the 'community' versus 'go it alone' scenario all I would offer is this:

A neighbours kid came to the door the other day and said to our daughter:

"my dad says that Scott and Laraine love throwing parties but it must cost them a lot of money. Mind you, they get the whole neighbourhood together".

I'll go with that...