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Hi Mountaingirl, This site looks a good bet. http://pyronet.50megs.com/Repower/Homemade%20Solar%20Panels.htm Robin Hi Robin, I'm very grateful to you and have printed that out. Very interesting page. I thought that there would be lots of stuff on the net about making solar panels but surprisingly n...

Hi all, Lovely to post here again. been awhile :flower: My friend wants to give up his milking herd, stop all animal production and start growing things and become more green! He wants to spend the winter making loads of cheap as poss electricity solar panels for his farm in his workshop. But I need...

I wonder Andy if there could be any way we could post pics? Someone has offered to do a little digital photo shoot so I can show you all the new place. mountaingirl :cat: You can post pics as long as they are linked to an external site. I plan to make it so you can and we will host the images but a...

Thanks Stew, Nev, Chickenlady and Andy. Lots of good ideas and links there for me to check out which I will do. :cheers: My problem is largely financial so anything I do has do be money-saving. As I said most of the food items I purchase form T***o are cheaper to buy than grow or produce. However, I...

:flower: Hi sufficientishers, I will soon be living very high on a mountain and it will be really hard to get shopping more than once a month. I will bake my own bread, grow pumpkins to make pumpkin pie in the winter. Anyone got any other ideas for making real savings, a lot of stuff in tescos is re...

What I have done Judy is to get the new landlord to get the cen heating engineer to join the solid fuel range to the cen heating so that they both heat the same radiators.....thats the best I could think of.
mountaingirl.

:flower: Wot I do is to try to do is to take the lowest forms of life wherever I can so I'm a vegetarian (cant afford to be vegan). But yes, I instinctivly feel bad when I pull up me veggies. But I respect everyone elses view and I am sure that a sufficientist who rears their own animules for grub w...

:flower: Firstly thank you Nev, Andy and Dave for your kind wishes and I am very hopeful for this house, it is smaller than the one I have now and has far less garden and no trees or hedges but it is out of quasi-suburban cattle-country and up into sheep country (with some cattle) so I am going up i...

I was wondering if anyone else feels a little twinge of sympathy every time they pull a seedling out by the roots when thinning? I swear I can hear tiny little cries every time I do it. I thinned some leaks out yesterday, and left some of the thinnings lying on the surface. Today I noticed that eve...

:flower: I think its great that people are in a position to downzize, cause if I downsized much more I'd be an amoeba! That is of course because fate has placed me in a position of poverty. I live in the countryside always as remote as I can get and always until the landlord needs the house for son/...

Maybe we should just go ahead and make our own. I mean internet television is starting to take off. I could use the self sufficientish.org name that I own to air a few video clips of how to do stuff. The end of this summer I am planning a move to Bristol into a house with a garden (first time in 4 ...

there is talk that Channel four are going to show a program called the real good life. Also I have been contacted by two production compaines that are looking for people who live 'the real good life'. One will de based around londoners and the other seems to be about anyone in the UK. So it does lo...

:flower: Yep, you heard it all before but this time it looks as though I almost certainly have a house in the mountains......since I wrote this I can now confirm I do have the house. Good points: lovely late sixties early seventies interior with a 'hunter' range in a nice biscuit (light tan)colour. ...

:flower: I dont see why not. Of course it would require a younger cast.....and hopefully that would not go along with the tackyness of a lot more recent programming. But there are major issues here to be discussed albeit through comedy/drama. A new 'Good Life' could really help the British public co...

My friend has a boiler at the back of her fire but I wondered if a small steam pipe off that boiler calibrated to a high pressure could drive a dynamo and so add to the houses energy?
mountaingirl.