Archive for March, 2025
The wait is over…
I’m so excited and I just can’t hide it, I’m about… Why are you singing like that, with a stupid grin on your face? Well, today is the day… Mother’s day? No, concentrate, I get to look at our heating costs and compare a winter with an air sourced heat pump to a gas boiler […]
Posted: March 30th, 2025 under Driving off the grid.
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The economics of life.
Time rich, money poor is the mirror of money rich and time poor, which is the problem of our time as we return to the office at least 3 times a week. My commute at the moment takes 4 hours out of my week, and it is shattering. Before I took this role, my commute […]
Posted: March 23rd, 2025 under 42, Driving off the grid.
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Cooking for two.
It’s Sunday, in March, and I’m cooking a 1.7kg medium(!) chicken from Waitrose. Why on earth would you do that? So much for trying to be carbon neutral! Actually, we’re going to get four meals out of this chicken. And that’s excluding the stock, which I will use for a soup tonight and pie later […]
Posted: March 16th, 2025 under 42, Driving off the grid.
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Spring is round the corner, but three days of sun do not make it spring
The UK news channels are all extolling the arrival of spring. Yes, we have finally have had sunny days and today the temperature did rise above 6°C, in fact it is a barmy 16°C. But with a low front through the early part of next week, it’s short lived and all the flowers triggered by […]
Posted: March 9th, 2025 under Driving off the grid.
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