Trimming the hedge, strimming the field and cutting the lawn
We’ve been busy draft proofing the house ahead of winter so we’ve fallen behind with some of our gardening tasks, so it’s time catch up. We’ve taken out the hedge…
We’ve been busy draft proofing the house ahead of winter so we’ve fallen behind with some of our gardening tasks, so it’s time catch up. We’ve taken out the hedge…
We headed down to the bottom of field yesterday and filled three punnets with wild blackberries. It wasn’t easy, as you’ll see in the video, but it was deeply satisfying, and the wild blackberries are really, really delicious. They certain taste as good as they look.
We had afternoon tea at Palé Hall in Wales recently and when we walked around the property we made an interesting discovery; this hotel is powered by its own hydroelectric plant.…
When we had our solar PV panels and SolarEdge inverter installed, I thought that the SolarEdge app would simply tell you how much energy we’ve generated (which it does), but it also provides realtime data on self consumption and export, and the app has become a hugely important tool in helping us to understand and evaluate our home energy usage.
We trekked to the International Antiques Fair of Wales at the Royal Welsh Showground in Builth Wells today. The fair is huge, spanning over multiple exhibition halls. The one thing…
We’ve considered installing a smart metre from the time we moved into our house, but due to our remote location our providers couldn’t arrange for this, which in hindsight is a good thing and I don’t think we’ll install a smart metre until such time that the UK passes a law to do so. Here’s why.
We’re struggling to get our heads around why electricity providers in the UK don’t want to retain customers. When we moved into our property, we inherited EON as our providers…
The previous owners of our house didn’t draft proof key areas in the property, so ahead of the winter we’ve decided to apply beading in rooms where large gaps have formed between floorboards.
Last year, over the course of the autumn, we asked a local carpenter to build us a shed that would store our outdoor furniture cushions. Over the course of the summer, large gaps, up to 1cm in width started to appear on the shed doors. This is our video on repairing gaps in shed with battens.