Karmacat: To Infinity And Beyond!

ClootiesMum

sounds like my childhood

Aaaaahhhhh, but it makes you more of a (wo)man.

But that's not always good -

DH has just had a conversation with neighbour who delicately asked if one of the chooks had died as they saw me carrying one the other day. I can only assume it was the one I was holding after I'd wrung it's neck - there was still a bit of twitching going on.

I think they have me down for a psychopath.......but I just believe you have to do the necessary, no matter how hard it is.

Off I go to sharpen me axe - anyone want to play?

shaun40400

ClootiesMum wrote: »

Aaaaahhhhh, but it makes you more of a (wo)man.
or sheep:o

DH has just had a conversation with neighbour who delicately asked if one of the chooks had died as they saw me carrying one the other day. I can only assume it was the one I was holding after I'd wrung it's neck - there was still a bit of twitching going on.

I think they have me down for a psychopath.......but I just believe you have to do the necessary, no matter how hard it is.

Off I go to sharpen me axe - anyone want to play?

oh i want to live near you:j:j:j

Karmacat

ZTD wrote: »

Windmills are only of real use out in the country alas.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/07/microwind_chocolate_teapot/

The bus that the one I saw was on, was parked on a coast road, lapping up the steady breeze from the English Channel. Urban point agreed with!

ClootiesMum wrote: »

Having only moved to civilisation 2 years ago from a farm cottage I know lots about power cuts.

Snow = power cut
Wind = power cut
Farmer shooting crows = power cut
Tree falling on line = power cut
I had a blackout box in the living room at all times - candles, matches, torches, wind up radio, battery alarm clock & various other bits & pieces - nothing worse than stumbling around looking for torches......Blackout box was well-used.

Oh the joys of village life - the wind can blow all it likes & we can still watch telly......:D

Wow! At least the power cuts of my teenage years were scheduled! We do get the odd one here in the suburbs, it lasts for about 45 mins. Its do-able.

shaun40400 wrote: »

sounds like my childhood:cool::cool:
you forgot the staple diet,,,,soup and sos,,,cooked on a single ring gas camping stove:o

I don't know what we ate... must have been scouse. Not scousers, silly billy - scouse :rotfl:the stew.

hi KC
when we were looking at our place in Lithuania,,,i opted for thermal lance,,,€8k to supply hot and cold air and hot water ,,,service was €300 a year for the filters,,
water treatment plant,,,43k,,,service was €50 a year for bio-bugs and the water is drinkable,,,,,though mine goes to the garden pipe ,,just in case:o

Something else to investigate. I've always thought of myself as quite knowledgeable about green issues - what I'm seeing now is that I'm ignorant about modern green technologies - and thank god there's some coming on the market. I'm loving this!

So Shaun, if yours goes to the garden pipe, how do you get drinkable water?

Karmacat

I've ended up not doing the 3pm free bingo - I took it into my head to take those wood offcuts round to the neighbour. But I didn't - they were in the garage, so when I went to get them, instead I spent the last hour and a half chucking easy stuff out (that I'd kept "just in case" - like 300 tiny flowerpots, or 300 polystyrene cups to tie together and do home made loft insulation, never mind the fire risk). So lots of that crap went out, then I managed to sweep the floor (which has been swept once in the 11 years I've been here) and then I got my saw and sawed off a bl**dy great branch that was hanging over the drive, in front of said garage. And I perched (safely) on a stepladder to do it, too (brushed free of spiders). And now - ta-da! - you can actually stand upright in the middle of the garage! You can't do anything else, mind, but thats just the beginning. My sister will be coming to help me do garage clearing soon, and I wanted to do the easy stuff before she got here, so the really scary (i.e. spidery) stuff could get done while she's here.

shaun40400

the water goes through 4 treatment areas ,,the same as a real treatment center,,,,,through a stone bed,,,,plus the beds have some sort of bacteria in them,,
the water at the other end is drinkable,,,,,sorry not very good at translating Lithuanian or Scandinavian,,,,but it works

main tank is 4mt by 3mt by 1mt deep ,,,,ish,,,,spilt into 4 sections,,,,buried under ground:o

can send you a linc ,,,,how your Lithuanian?

ClootiesMum

oh i want to live near you:j:j:j

You're about the only one - most people try to avoid me as DH & I have an Evil Pigeon :eek:.
Not believing in celestial stuff, we believe in the Evil Pigeon :eek: who sits above and sh*%s on us from on high. The phrase - The Evil Pigeon :eek:strikes again - is known throughout my work and amongst all friends.
It gives us something to rage against when we discover our pet chicken is a cannibal or the house and garden get flooded by an overflowing drain within a year of us moving in, even though this had never happened in the previous living memory, or when we both get pneumonia on a lovely cruise around Egypt with DH ending up in isolation in hospital and all manner of other situations that can only be described as "different".

It's not what happens but how you deal

On that note - I'll unhijack Karmacat's thread and slink back off to the garage

CM

ClootiesMum

Karmacat - I'll deal with the spiders if you'll deal with my garage?:o

Karmacat

shaun40400 wrote: »

can send you a linc ,,,,how your Lithuanian?

Er, not very good. I'll do some googling

ClootiesMum wrote: »

You're about the only one - most people try to avoid me as DH & I have an Evil Pigeon :eek:. .....
It's not what happens but how you deal

On that note - I'll unhijack Karmacat's thread and slink back off to the garage

CM

CM, I *love* it! Don't stop hijacking - it makes me think of the Terry Pratchett and the great turtle

Karmacat

Erm, on the garage v spiders .... aren' t most of the spiders *in* the garage??? I found loads of spiders sacs, clinging to old bricks..... if they're not, can do!

ClootiesMum

aren' t most of the spiders *in* the garage???

Not in ours - most of the stuff in our garage is from Mum's garage & she was the type that used to hoover her garage (I have NOT inherited this) so the spiders know they aren't welcome - They all sit in the kennel instead.