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So, even the most economical and efficient dishwasher uses more in one cycle than I do in a whole week. Admitted, I live alone, so produce less washing up, maybe i wont need to wash up every night, depending on what im cooking, or if im just having a salad, cutting water use even more, but I...

One thing I have found is that I have less confidence out in the big bad world and tend to stick to my own locality much more, partly because we've lost a lot of our buses, and I can no longer afford the insurance on my bike, so had to sell it. (Lots of tears, as I'd had my dream bike for 11...

Sometimes the old (analogue) ways are the best. Wot ain't broke don't need fixin. I blame the TV programme tomorrow's world for a lot of our expectations.....note the word programme.........applies to a lot of modern living. We are programmed to buy stuff that we don't realy need, and only...

Thanks chaps, I'm quite proud of it, took me a long time and literaly spilt blood over it. It's now part of my home made and plastic free camp kit.

There is a knack to washing up with minimal water. Wash things up in the evening . First glass, then cutlery, scrape plates well and do them next. Finaly pans. Learned this in brownies for my housekeepers badge aged 7. You shouldn't need to rinse if you wipe things dry after leaving them for a...

My washing machine has just given up after 15 or more years, can't remember how long I've actually had it. Have been handwashing , even down to bedding and jeans. As long as you keep on top of it, it's not hard. I only had my first machine after I moved in to my present home, so I've hand washed...

I do wonder how many will cope if we have another Carrington event, or a major hack of our systems that we all rely on. So much nowadays won't work without some sort of electrical and or digital connection. I've found an old spong mincer at my beloved charity shop, and purchased it. Today, I...

It's a long story, but to cut it short, it's the day my friend walked out of a shop by the bridge in Totnes proudly wearing a brand new and expensive straw hat.. moments later, the wind caught it, and blew it off her head into the river. The hopeless attempts to hoopla and rescue it with a life...

Finaly finished the spoon that drew blood. Nowhere near kepis's standard, but I'm pretty pleased at my fourth ever attempt to carve a spoon.

I miss him too, he had a great wealth of knowledge, and you are right, due to some opinionated persons he no longer posts, which is all wrong. Tolerance of others opinions , with reasoned discussions is acceptable, but attacking with downright rudeness is not. I don't blame him for leaving, but...

I've definatly noticed the lack of bees and butterflies in my garden. Only cabbage whites, and those only in the latter part of the summer. No wasps, no honey bees, which considering there are three hives just down the way seems odd. I've put up three insect hotels in the garden. Only one has...

Too much effort though, and it would eat into the profits... can't have that!

They slash tents????? We just knocked on them, then unzipped them. If they had personal belongings in, they were left untill the end of the day, in case the owners came back on day one. After that, they were taken down and packed up into a bin liner taken to the farmhouse area, where there was...

I've had my blackjacks, and fruit salads. Now need new teeth! :) I'd forgotten how sweet they are, but I did enjoy them.

Pop ups! At sidmouth someone brought a pop up loo tent, it sat there all weekend out of its bag and was never put up. I got chatting, and they said it was a waste of money, as they'd never be able to get it back in the bag, and couldn't be bothered with it. I offfered half the purchase price and...

I worked on the Glastonbury festival clean up too for many years. When I first went in the early 80's the clean up was done in a week. We even picked up matchsticks. I heard from someone who still does it, it took nearly three weeks this year. Tonns and tons of rubbish, most of witch was tents...

Chat gb alone uses enough electricity for 130, 000 US households..per day! Sorry have the heating engineers in checking over the heat pump system, so difficult to listen, note facts and deal with them too all at once, give it a listen. It's mad.

Here is a fact you should consider. AI uses about 30% more energy than the normal Internet. (Which we all know uses massive amounts)That includes chat gbt. Listening to a radio 4 digitel tech item as I type this. At 9 17am if you want to know more. You can probably find it on catch up if you...

Become a pensioner on basic pension and put your heating on.

Varnish?