Recent content by Paul_B

We moved into a house which had solar panels installed in 2014. We are under the FiT scheme where we get paid for half of what we generate no matter what we use. Two payments a year, one small early in the year and a bigger one later on. In the two months rather side of the longest day we...

Sure, it's not a big deal just seems easier with a side handle. However it could possibly be a source of weakness or failure at the handle too. Swings and roundabouts, you'd have fun with with both!

OK that's a faff compared to a handle like a domestic jug kettle. One hand grip, lift and pour. Not much in it but I think I find I agree with @Herman30 on this. Not got one but always fancied one. Used them before in groups and they're good bits of kit. I once used a really big one that...

I remember toddling out and eating gooseberries off the Bush. I vaguely remember being pushed into it by my older sister. Got to be 18 months to 2 years. That was my first foraging trip and my first lesson in first aid. Needless to say the first aid didn't stick but eating gooseberries straight...

I thought something similar. If the written law is different to the case law then perhaps he is right but you'd need to know the case or cases that's involved, that's effectively altered the written law as voted by Parliament and signed off by monarch. Correct me if I'm wrong but I once read...

I recall something about being in nature in Germany and Scandinavian countries have a good relationship with natural world too I believe. Forest bathing has even spread into Britain too, but I suspect many see it as new age hippy stuff. Can I just say I must have missed this thread first time...

One of them was part of a bbc TV show where this bald guy goes into the factory to see how they're made. I thought it was Kelly but might not be if they've been made in China for a long time now. I think the programme dated at least 5 years possibly 10 years. Lots of old kit that looks like...

In towns and cities there's rubbish but generations of kids have been taught not to litter. Kids are widely taught respect for nature in primary schools. Schools and charities take kids out into the countryside on residential centres up and down the country. My kid's school was on the side of...

And waste is what governments have always done. There's probably more waste to be found elsewhere but they've never got that back either. That unconfirmed 7 billion would probably work out at 3 billion after waste in setting up this ranger force. Before training and cost to make it all legal...

I wonder whether there is more of an issue with certain sectors of society? For example, are city dwellers potentially more likely to disrespect the countryside. The idea of neds and weegies trashing the edges of Loch lomond? I notice that the quieter areas around the edges of Cumbria that...

That's kind of what I was getting at. The UK not having much truly natural areas these days but if we had a natural habitat it would be better without humans visiting it. The lakes often get popular votes for most beautiful views or countryside in the UK but it's basically industrial. Just been...

Natural world does better without humans present. True wilderness is special but the UK doesn't really have any. The issue is how should humans use the land. With care and consideration is my answer but there's so many views on what that is. A licence breeds entitlement if my experience of...

Storyyland: A New Mythology of Britain by Amy Jeff's is a secondhand book I've just bought to read. Over the years I've read a lot of ancient Greek mythology, a bit of roman, a bit of Norse, very little old English basically beowulf, a bit of Aztec but very little from our own lands. I've even...

Call first though, it might be a wasted journey. They're into domestic and industrial sector, also deal in used. Family run from the beginning. I think they run courses too. I'm not linked to them just ordered stuff from them for past jobs and they're reliable. Like all things they're...

Try Hobkirks in Blackburn. Very knowledgeable people and the company was probably around when this sewing machine company was still producing! I think they even have a sewing machine museum at one site.