Nice to get out of town for a while - this isn't that far out of town. But it is a nice place. Here's Hamish the horse being disgusted that I wasn't feeding him. This was AFAIK at dawn last year.
Cool, i see that your going bring out the heavy throwers, cant wait to see the pics man. Have fun and please give the horse a carrot for me.
But will dish out some treats to them. Except Rummy who ignores everything except food. I've watched him with other ponies (Genetically he's a Highland Pony), and the only thing he is interested in is eating. But he is good at pulling a carriage built in 1899. Mints he eats, carrots he spits back at you.
I'm not either of the people in this picture
That would not be a good idea then....lol, you might just end up blaming me for the carrots in your face. City life does not compare to where your going to be, going to be nice and quiet there.
Spent 2 years of my life in a desert. The other 48 were in cities. Problem is that horses have a very good sense of smell. They can still smell the mints in your pockets after they have eaten them. A horse trying to eat your pockets hurts a lot. I have the scars to prove it.
You don't get quiet like the Kalahari gives. Unless the bandits are active. Type 56/AK47's are loud.
I spent some time in Saudi when i was in the Army and instead of gunshots it was nice and quiet, spent most of my duty there cleaning my weapon.
My job was missionary. Weapons we don't do. At least not in any church I'm prepared to recognise. Still work for the church 26 years later. Sorta kinda. My employer wouldn't know what a church was if it bit them where it hurts.
And I can still tell the difference between an Type 56 and an AK47. Seen too many of both. Been shot at by both.
Southern Africa was not for the fainthearted in the 80's. Had I known this I'd not have been there. Volunteered for medic work in Mozambique in '85. At that point they were crucifying foreigners. Literally. Friends died there. Horribly.
Bitter? Me? No way!!!!!!!!!
Glad you made it man......or you would not bless us here with your knowledge. Sorry about your buddies, i have had some pass as well.
Warfare does that. That I can live with.
There were at least a dozen wars going on around me back then. Most of the people I taught back then were refugees from assorted wars. My pupils ought to have been aged 13-19. The youngest was 18. He was from 2000 miles away.
The oldest was from Mozambique and was older than me.
I worked in south western Zambia - about 1500 miles from the worst of it. If I saw an aircraft at all, it was the SADF up to no good. Being in a refugee camp after it had been bombed by the SADF was no fun at alI.
Now I live in a place that ought to know better. The really tragic bit is I've seen worse and heard worse here in the UK. You really, really don't want to know how bad it gets. No wars here in the last 9 centuries, but what people do to other people including their own kids doesn't bear repeating.
These days I take the good bits where I get them.
I will not bear arms against anyone. I've seen too much.
BUT that doesn't mean I don't respect those that will. The fact that I will not does not mean that I am glad that there are others who will. My brother is one of them.
But let's stick to lights. The alternative doesn't bear thinking about.
Enough of a rant for this millennium.......
I think you're teaching that horse bad manners by having it drink out of a bathtub! You'll never be able to train it to be an indoor horse.
Now there's a thought Ted! 
"Oh show me a home where the buffalo roam
Where the deer and the antelope play
And I'll show you a home that needs new carpets"
Now that was just too funny........
Don,
What a great effort.
I suspect that the snow, to a large extent prevents differences from showing clearly.
For many of the torches I could see relatively little difference, both between models, & between Hi & Lo modes.
Maybe a better presentation if the torch cost & either current or battery no & type were shown, sort of allowing a value for money evaluation.
It maybe that most folk here are very conversant with these details but I am trying to make a purchase decision.
I like a couple of intensity settings & I think a strobe is a useful emergency facility.
My take is that if you are carrying a torch, it might as well be substantial, & allow enough batteries to provide a good flood & throw whilst allowing at least a couple of hours use on new batteries.
I also think build quality ends up being paramount, I read so much about good cheap torches that have fairly obvious faults, usually more QC related than due to poor design. I suppose that's Asian manufacturing??
I'd welcome some enlightened comment on this.
Thanks
Peter O
Welcome peterlonz! Thanks for the comments, we're glad to have you. Yep, I agree 100%, quality is paramount. When a flashlight is flickering or acting up somehow, I can't trust it as being reliable and therefore I'll never use it. But as you say, it's not necessarily bad design, it's often lack of QC. For example, I have had two very nice flashlights that flickered terribly. But finally they taught me here that the switch and light modules are often not fully seated. A few turns of a thread later, I had a nice, reliable light. Once these initial problem concerns are resolved, I would confidently put several Chinese lights I have on par with the most expensive name brands.
You also have to remember that a lot of your name brand lighs are made elsewhere, most of them in China.
Yes, good point. That's why I buy the generics!
A lot of Chinese production lines seem to run another shift once they've made the official ones to make some "for the factory". Often the generics are exactly the same (apart from quality control)
Don, O, I like RC-T6 High, It is so great.
Its amazing how much light can be reflected by snow, especially when its around 800 lumens. Im just glad that you dont live behind me. 
Thats a nice comparison Don. Thanks for the beam shots.
I do occasionally get strange looks from the windows facing me. So I usually wait till around 2am to do the shots. Which is fine as long as I don't have to be at work 5 hours later...