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Spot on. This whole "net zero" thing is a con as it ignores the wider issue i.e. that it's the global pollution load, and so it offshores emissions and is set up so the elite can continue to consume and pollute whilst others pay the price whether through loss of jobs in UK or pollution in...

I recently bought a British Berkey gravity filter for the house. They give very clear instructions about avoiding cross contamination of the clean water vessel, and that disinfection is also needed (if using it to clean e.g. stream water). But there is a thing these days that folks rely on...

.... and it was on the disc that the AI video said to apply it...... GC

@Woody girl has a good point about power and water use. Once AI is "necessary for defence" then the next obvious step is to switch off domestic users to keep power on for AI if there's energy shortages. That said..... ... history also teaches us that (a) if a hungry mob has nothing left to...

Ceramic purification filters don't remove viruses. In fact, that's how they used to work out a cultured liquid was a virus not a bacteria causing infection- the viruses passed the ceramic filter. Proper purification ceramic plus activated carbon will remove most bacteria and chemical/heavy...

A British Berkey 8.5 L gravity water filter for the kitchen, and a 1 L version for travelling (hotel water always feels a bit suspect). A new old truck- I traded my 4-door pickup in for a 2-door one which is 4 years older, due to change in tax rules for commercial vehicles. It's nice to have a...

I mow the patch of mossy clovery grassy stuff at the front, that way I encourage white clover, buttercups and the moss rather than the coarse wet grass taking over. Other areas have a path mown and most other areas I leave, tho the large patch of docks needs knocking down with the Big Strimmer...

That's why I have Starlink plus an Ecoflow system.... add a VoIP phone and it's back to the level of reliability of the old analogue exchange..... ......I am not convinced that's progress, and it's not cheap either (although neither were phone lines back in the day- but there were many more...

Having managed to get the polytunnel covers on during that brief warm spell in March, I have at last got the tunnels organised and a reasonable amount of planting in them. The spring being so late didn't help- everything is 3-4 weeks late around here. I have quite a bit planted in the tunnels...

Yeah, bamboo does get a bad press because most of those who plant it don't knwo how to manage it. It is controlled by pruning the roots not the tops...... GC

Not that unusual unfortunately. In 2008, I spent a year commuting by 737 between Glasgow and Cardiff. Thankfully, the expected job transfer did happen and I was able to move back home. I spent a big chunk of 2020-21 on sites living out of my Big Van over in the East Midlands. Most major...

Indeed. There's quite a bit of housing which could be brought into use- and probably much more quickly than new build- if the incentives were there. Empty houses: these articles are interesting...

Who decides what "spare" is....? Our rooms are all used thanks. We have hobbies rather than going on expensive holidays abroad several times a year or having the latest gadgets. On the other hand, there's a bunch of empty houses in UK, the difficulty is the capital needed to bring them to a...

I believe we have. About 5 years ago, I did some speculative business development whereby I was able to operate a (large) drone to cover a 50Ha field with a muilti-spectral sensor at a resolution of 2cm/pixel, covered that field in about 45 minutes. With processing and recharge, there was...

Not so much making as preparing to make: over the weekend I was harvesting willow bark to use to weave bark baskets, it is the time of year when the bark can be peeled off the inch thick willow rods thinned from my biomass plantation...... GC

Accommodation prices have gone daft all over the place. If I wasn't WFH so much these days, I would get another van and convert it and use for client work overnights as I did in the past, these days i can usually do long day trips or lodge the Sunday or Monday night when prices are a lot lower...

Had a good Easter weekend in the garden. Finally got the 3 quince trees out of their pots and into a large raised bed which is in the shelter of the new polytunnels- they are deliberately arranged in a way which both minimises them shading each other and which creates a sheltered area. Then I...

Interesting. She clearly has a back garden that is larger than many as she has managed to get a polytunnel in. I had one of those little tunnels when I had a (half-plot) allotment. Couldn't have got it in the back garden of the previous place. A small greenhouse would have been OK there...

Yeah around us we have a few pheasants that have escaped the shoot over on the other hill, they happily live in the scrubby woodland edge amongst the brambles. They seem to be quite keen on the willow groves too. (It's soggy and a bit acidic around here). There's a group of a male and about 4...

I wonder though. In the "traditional" woodland *pasture* would most of the oaks/other trees not have been pollarded (with a selected few left for the bigger house beams and suchlike)? GC