Finding the chase and cutting to it

The standard says, Space heating <= 15 kWh/m²/yr, an airtightness limit of 0.6ACH@50Pa (air changes per hour at 50 Pascals), total primary energy demand <= 60 kWh/m²/yr. For our house, at 244m², this works out at: Heating <= 3,660 kWh over the year. Total primary energy need <= 14,640 kWh over the year. This year […]

It’s the 2nd weekend of October, and, technically, we did past the milestone earlier in the year of having generated more than the whole of 2024, but we are currently sitting at having generated 3.5MWh off our roof mounted solar panels since 1st January 2025. It’s the first year we have had batteries in play, […]

insulin, for giving it to me…? Yesterday was World Diabetes Day (14th November), held during Diabetes Awareness month (November). The reason for the 14th November is because (Dr Fred) Banting was born on the 14th November. (For all those who write raw HTML, be in awe of my dedication to not para-phrase that to save […]

Doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as born in the USA.  But right this moment, I am pretty proud of my little corner of planet Earth. Go on, I’ll bite, why? Why, as you can see, right this moment, the electricity hitting my bit of the UK grid is being produced with 0g […]

I start, along with the confusion of achieving something new, my husband’s tone was “game show announcer” – not something I hear from him very often! The prompt for this announcement was my own surprise at having finished a packet of yeast before it had gone past it’s best before date – again, my beloved’s […]