Hi from NE Scotland

[Lord Azrael]

Hi,
I'm from Alves in Moray, Scotland and just found the site. I haven't had much chance to look around yet, but it certainly seems very interesting. We produce quite a bit of our own fruit and veg and try to keep costs down wherever possible, but am I the only one that finds the initial cost of free power very expensive?
Still, maybe there'll be some ideas on here for me to peruse......

[Andy Hamilton]

hello there Lord Azreal, you are not the only one who thinks that, I did however hear of someone who painted a radiator black, filled it with anti freeze and water and uses it to heat her water, so I guess that could potentially be just the cost of a tin of paint and a bottle of antifreeze.

Welcome to the site.

[Shirley]

Hi Lord Azreal!

Great to meet you... there seems to be LOADS of stuff happening in Moray with regards to the environment.

I'm assuming you've got a copy of the Moray Sustainability Handbook??

[Lord Azrael]

Hi, I think so (the ring binder type thingy??)

[Shirley]

Mine is a little A5 book - not ringbinder. The Rough Guide to Moray's Future.


taken from the sustainable scotland newsletter May 2005 :

Moray Sustainability Handbook
REAP-CSV Moray has just published a neat ‘Sustainability Guide’ for Morayshire. With local, national and international information on a wide range of sustainability issues the publication is available from Rod Lovie at the Rural Environmental Action Project, CSV Moray, 177 Mid Street, Keith, Banffshire, AB55 5BL, Tel: 01542 888070, e-mail: rlovie@reap-csv.net. It is hoped that the guide will be put on-line in the future.

[Lord Azrael]

That may be the one, I'll have to rake around and find it. I think I filed it away as I already did most of the suggested things in it. We don't have any recycling collections out here as we're in the countryside, but we take a car full to either the Forres or Elgin recycling centre every few weeks.

[Wombat]

G'Day Lord Azrael,

(Excitement, excitement! I've never spoken to a lord before )

Welcome to the site m'lud.

Nev

[ina]

Hiya Azrael

Hope you don't insist on such formalities as the full title...

There I thought - NE Scotland, another one from Aberdeenshire - but you are even further north!

Welcome to the site.

Btw - you are not, by any chance, into phantasy...? I seem to have read your name somewhere before - or am I imagining things...

[Millymollymandy]

Hi there Lord A and welcome!

[Hillbilly]

Hi and welcome. Alves. Not too far from my old stomping ground


Richard Calder? i hope you're nicer than your namesake

[Lord Azrael]

Btw - you are not, by any chance, into phantasy...? I seem to have read your name somewhere before - or am I imagining things...

Could be, I'm around various forums from computing to motorbikes...loads of interests me

[PurpleDragon]

Hiya, nice to see another NE'er on here. I think we're taking over! I'm away over by Turriff, but I was in your neck of the woods a week or so ago. My DH lives and works in Inverness, so we sometimes go thru Elgin.

[Lord Azrael]

Yes, it's strange really. Maybe we're more inclined to be greener up here in Scotland (??)

[ina]

Well, we have more forests, and fewer people... Relatively speaking. All that makes for more green!

Oh yes, and some politically green in the parliament, too.

[PurpleDragon]

Yeah, we certainly have more space each than they do down south, I think. Perhaps folk who are more drawn to the countryside gravitate north so they can have a bit more space.