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Hola from lush green ANDALUCIA!! I've considered looking at the North, it's clearly beautiful, I've been worried about being off-grid up there (i.e. so much less sun), be interested to hear your plans.

Thanks all. To be clear, I'm not bothered about getting ill (i.e. I don't think we're all gonna die!) just that it will be a real PITA as I've got things to do and people to see :lol: not least my driving test which would really be quite useful to pass (living up a mountain with two small kiddies!)....

Someone give me a sensible idea of what is going on - I'm coming to the UK on Sunday (via plane), I'm pretty sure we've had a dose but I really don't have the time to sit around being ill (and worse a 4 month old with the flu, not fun). So how many suspected cases are there? How many people here hav...

That sounds fab - currently using up tons of mulberries via the cheesecake method :cheers: never thought I could add choc as well :thumbleft: If you want to be really filthy try burning the butter - that is melting it until it turns golden, you then have to strain it as it will have dark specks, but...

I think we've had it too...a few weeks back. I've only just looked up the symptoms and we had every single one. I got quite a mild case, just made me feel floppy for a few days, then went to my chest. OH got it much worse, but then he kept trying to work through it - in 40* heat!! In the end we got ...

oh ok (my machine is similarly simple, luckily) that means that you're wasting hot water on your rinses? which is a shame. i solution like mine would sort that but you've got to be willing to take the top off and start modifying! I can see what you mean, but I'm not a tinkerer I'm afraid. In our ca...

No just a cold input, but because it's very basic and the heating element is cut out it takes what it gets!!

Until you mentioned it I never considered that rinsing was done at a different temperature!! No everything comes from our hot water source which is solar by default. We have a small boiler (a slightly larger one than you used to get in small lavvies in offices etc, but the same type), we use it a fe...

Way over my head, my machine is directly filled from the solar tank and there is a button on the front which disables the heating element so our clothes are just washed at whatever temp the water comes out of the tank (usually mixed down to 40 - 50 degrees). This button seems standard on spanish mac...

I'm torn over whether to go - never been before, and can't decide whether it's for us or not. It's so expensive it needs to be pretty good to make me want to go! Is it over-ridingly hippy (I'm thinking here of the earth energies, healing music and sweat lodge side of things), or is there an equal f...

Erm re the pharmacist, you're not pregnant or look like a terrorist do you? Perhaps he thought you had some dubious use in mind...

This website looks helpful, doesn't appear to go into environmental concerns.

Ooops I started something...sorry! I don't have much time right now and I can't remember it all from the top of my head, but I would look into the following (wikipedia might be a start, Pat Thomas of The Ecologist also wrote a book called What's in This Stuff).... Amonium laureth sulphate - sounds l...

Who's gonna organise and SSish meet-up?

....and who wants to cuddle my Nancy-boo while I have a shower (at least once would be nice)....just realised that is a major logistical going with a tiny babe by myself, oops.

I'm a wwoof host in Las Alpujarras and my house is for sale.

Please ask what you would like to know. I think self-sufficiency is infinitely more doable here than in the UK as there are fewer restrictions and cost of living is much lower (for example I pay less than 9 euros a year in council tax!!).