David, Iâ??m noticing that itâ??s quite hard to sing â??Grrrh! Arggh!â?? in falsetto, itâ??s definitely amusing my office mate though.

The idea of your amused office mate is amusing me, too

Are you trying to explain why you are doing it?

“Well, you know what a blog is, right…?”

I think Shaun has taken the â??best post title of the yearâ?? award out already.

Only – and I realise this is controversial – if it is sung in falsetto.

An unbeliever? See the Australian case before court last week.

( i’m not putting in links – but a google search on bug chasing conversion parties will do the trick, esp ‘the gift’ documentary).

Really, though, folks, all you need to get by is a good communications system with your neighbors, some proper tools and semi-automatic weapons, a good vegetable garden, a well and a cistern, some small, re-stockable domestic animals like chickens, a decent root cellar and canning operation, a good stock of canned food, a wine cellar and library to avoid insanity, basic medical supplies, a bunch of machetes, a cross-bow, an individual electricity generator and/or solar-panel system, and a well-constructed perimeter. My suggestion would be something like the one I’ve got, which is not so hard to do: two far-distance concentric rings of well-sunk and braced 8-foot concrete posts linked by a mesh of piano and razor wire (mine are tastefully masked by hedges), plus an inner fall-back perimeter which naturally encloses both the swimming pool and the music/pottery shed (wouldn’t want to lose those to zombies), consisting of an 8-foot wrought-iron-and-cinderblock wall, complemented by properly placed 20-foot guard towers that provide a good sniping and pick-off range, and which communicate through a system of lines and pulleys with my neighbors, who have a similar set-up. Really, it’s not that hard to get up and running. And if you do it right, the zombies will never even really know you’re there, which of course is half the battle.

See you after the end of the world. Or drop by for a drink during it.