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my mates homebrew site http://www.homebrew4u.co.uk/ - he also sells beer and wine bottles, corks and caps etc.

for the launch he has a 10% discount code INTRO10

*sigh* I'm not asking anyone to justify my having a bath every day, I don't happen to have a self sustaining borehole at present but I am, in any case, capable of making and accepting responsibility for simple moral decisions without asking people to help me justify it, or not, but thanks for your c...

It's also not possible to have a totally sustainable system - there are losses all along the way. You can recover some and put it back, but much is lost. Well I suppose this is the crux of my question - chemically water is H2O and of course it can be changed to something else (photosynthesis for ex...

all true although we've previously had a bore hole and I know from that that some supply plenty of water. The BF also has a degree in AgroForestry so we have a reasonable idea of what planting we would need to be aware of. So this is really a theoretical question; IF you have a borehole which suppli...

sorry - wasn't making myself clear - I mean a borehole that you know can meet your needs, not one which may run dry.

IF you pull all your water from a borehole so don't use mains water and IF you treat your waste water via reed bed or similar so don't use chemicals would it be true to say that your water usage is irrelevant - given that water is not actually 'used up' it all eventually returns to the environment? ...

tricky to wrap though.....

I think its a temperature thing as well. Warm is always best for cats, mine won't eat anything straight out of the fridge except ham and cheese.

I think financial and convenience incentives, not penalties, are the way to go, I'm not that old and when I was a kid we still used to get money back on beer bottles (I think it was beer, it was something dad drank but I wasn't allowed), and we always collected them - eve though recycling was an ali...

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I'm not sure that governments setting maximum child numbers would be especially helpful, but I often think the world would be a better place if we hadn't made some of the medical advances we have. Having discovered how to make people live longer then there may well be a moral responsibility to do so...

2steps wrote:Should of said they are both a bit designer labelly

There are some people for who homemade isn't appropriate. Charity shops have designer stuff though

I think you might be talking about a different definition of perpetual motion though John :)

I don't know how Rayburns are regulated when they run the central heating but normally you would expect some time of feedback from the water tank which will control the cutoff. - so if both the Rayburn and the woodburner are heating the same water tank it would work automatically. Its perfectly poss...

or a nice lockable wooden box for him to keep his, erm, homework in?

Redecorate his room for him.....customise a pair of jeans.......make him a cd or DVD rack..... boys are a real pain to get presents for whatever their age