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Must microchip cats in Wales. Clearly Cats Protection branches differ..... the one in Bridgend needed a lot of info before they took any cats and they looked after them including social time very well. There's also Cat Chat. https://catchat.org/ We had our most recent cat through a Cat Chat...

A couple of questions. (1) What do you want to achieve from home solar- regular money off power, resilience in power cuts etc? (2) What is your location like- roof orientation, size of grounds etc? Oh, and how much do you have available to spend? If you have a large house with a south...

Probably but not necessarily.... if you watch the "Girl with Dogs" channel you will see what I mean..... she is very good with cats so it's unusual to find out that she cannot handle..... this is a Ragdoll and comments btl on the video are interesting. As it this one: Shorthair vs longhair...

Wasn't part of the thing with the wind up radios that the ones sold in UK subsidised production for remote parts of the world where they had no electricity and a wind-up short-wave radio was (in those days) a lifeline? Hence the high price of the radios in UK. The wind-up generator was the...

I still have one of the original Baygen Freeplay radios too. GC

A documentary, not a film. "Buried" by Michael Sheen. Shocking but unfortunately not a surprise (in the light of what I learned about possibly contaminated land back in the late 1990s). I hope it leads to action and am wondering how I can play a part in stopping it being forgotten once the...

Exactly. Whereas power stations can live inside a locked building and are silent, and portable solar can be tucked away out of sight in use then packed away at night. Much more difficult for the tealeaves to find, even less than a solar array on the roof feeding the house scale battery...

Stuff made by Phoenix. Which was a maker of "mountaineering" kit based in NE England in the 1980s. My dad had a prototype Phoenix Phreak tent that I used to borrow in my venture scouting days..... I think the company lasted until the early 1990's. GC

On the subject of gennies. If I lived where @Woody girl lives, or where i used to live for that matter, I wouldn't be getting a gennie, they make noise which other nearby people would hear. Even the quiet ones. A gennie is only useful if you can avoid it being nicked...... which in most urban...

How about a Coracle.....? :p GC

When we did our renovation, the Building Inspector required that every room had at least one window that opened far enough for escape. We had to have a minimum of one special "tilt and turn" window in each upstairs room to make escape easier, plus an extra external door in one downstairs room...

I have had loads of tomatoes, cucumbers been good, peppers are also doing well for a change. Pattypan squash still producing, they tend to be more resilient than courgettes and having cut off the manky leaves I have had another flush of leaves then flowers/fruit. I didn't put aubergines in as...

I wonder if there is a social media "dare" going on? Trailcam needed, catch the little scrotes.... unless someone is lighting and putting g out just to put the Willie's up everyone e, if so they need to stop. I have hoses connected up to a manifold to water the different parts of the garden...

Words fail me. I cannot really put my thoughts about what should be done to the perpetrators (both inciters and doers) of such stupidity, but lets say that it is rather robust..... I am afraid I disagree about not telling people what (not) to do. But then, I live in Wales, where we have 200...

I also remember racks of them in forestry..... back when forestry was properly managed.... ya know, fire breaks and tidy.... Bit of both really. The fires in south Wales Vslleys are usually arson. Others may be from utter brainless "I don't care a fig about anyone I am having my fun" types...

The muppets with their builder's bonfire on the other side of the valley had a visit from Sam Tan* today. Takes a special kind of stupid to have a bonfire at the moment. They fired one bonfire at 01:15 or so this morning, then another those afternoon. Neighbour called Sam Tan out as they...

This is old news i'm afraid. The legislation has been there for a while. It popped up to the top of the news a couple or so years ago after a tight spot (grid wise) one winter, on that occasion it was coal power stations going full chat that saved the day...... an option we no longer have...

A book of country wine recipes. I intend to make use of the generous bounty of blackberries this year....... GC

Unfortunately, we seem to have a destructive steak in society. People who burn down old trees for the "fun" of it or even worse for social media clicks (I saw a news article about this but cannot remember where). The hillside fires in south Wales are typically started deliberately. Many people...

Ah, the Religion of Progress............... There's technological progress, economic progress and social progress. They move together............. - Social progress: it's not the level of tolerance that's changed, it's the taboos are different. I would argue that the peak of tolerance was...