Thankfully not, though we did experience some local flooding in December, though nothing like the stuff in Aberdeen this week or in the north west of England last month. Worst flood we've had was in 2006, quite a few houses were seriously damaged that time, though we were lucky, just couldn't get in and out of the area we live in for a day or so. At that time the local authority said it was only a 1 in 100 years type event so they couldn't justify the expense of flood protection measures. That seems questionable now, given recent events. The flooding in December last year was perhaps equivalent to 2/3 of the scale of the 2006 flood.
Good news about no flood. We lived in a bungalow, a couple of years ago, and were only saved by the elevated railway track 40 feet from the back of the house. All the houses south of the track got flooded, but the environmental agency did a fantastic job and installed pumps, pipes and dams all over the place. It was difficult to sleep at night because of the constant drone of the diesel engines driving the pumps. They managed to keep the water to just below damp proof course. So all the garages were flooded a couple of inches but the houses were ok. Many people were evacuated because of electricity danger. It was a very impressive operation- some of the pipes where a couple of feet in diameter. Apparently, they only managed to save the houses because they could pump the water into a rhyne a half mile away which led to the sea, about three miles away.
Sort of. I joined DIYAudio.com last year and have been learning a lot of stuff about amplifier design. Still not knowledgeable enough to build something decent yet. I did design and build a prototype Class A amplifier, but it was a crude and inefficient thing with an emiiter follower and resistive load for the output stage. About 40 Watts in, about 2.5 watts out! It did work though and didn't sound horrifickly bad to me, some audiophiles might beg to differ.
DIYAudio= good site. I have been with them for years. Some incredible stuff there. Yea, single ended class A is dreadfully inefficient but I suspect you are under selling you class A amp- it should sound superb, but perhaps limited on power and output current (2x theoretical is good)
Sadly, Bonnie the cat in the picture died a couple of years ago at the respectable age of 18 years. She is still missed. We have another cat, Cheeky. I had a picture of him as my avatar before the one of Bonnie.
That's the trouble with pets, unless you have a tortoise, elephant, or parrot, they don't live that long. There was s fantastic cat that the kids opposite named Wolfie. He just showed up one day and moved in with them. He used to stroll into our house as though he owned the place, often staying all day and night.
If you had a conversation he almost joined in, looking from one person to the other in line with the conversation flow. If I was working on the car he would come and supervise. Once when I was changing the plugs, he insisted on sitting on the rocker cover; would he move- no.
He had no fear of anything, including traffic. One summer he was asleep in the shade of the tyre of a delivery van parked on the drive opposite. The driver didn't know Wolfie was there and drove over him!