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My nearest village (Fyvie in Aberdeenshire) has a population, according to Google, of 499 people. I took the photo between Christmas and New Year. I must have missed a massive party. I was going to start a charity guess the number of bottles, £1 a go, but I don’t have enough spare hours in a...

I only use about 3/4 of a single pallet strip, chopped into sticks to get the Woodburner going. These sticks are Jenga piled onto a couple of small logs. Like I said the blocks are saved as a last resort.

I save the nails, and put them in batches in a bean tin in the recycling. I put the ash on the garden.

For kinderling I cut up pallets with a circular saw. I put a small axe through the cut pieces. I save the corner blocks in banana boxes, which stack neatly, to at least 6 high, to be used as a last resort, when I’m out of logs. I don’t use the compressed blocks, nor the blue or red painted...

Below is a table of my monthly electrical consumption (first figure) and the expected output from a 4.1kW solar array. Facing south with no shading for Northern Scotland. Jan 422 93 Feb 359 164 Mar 340 315 Apr 331 423 May 321 520 Jun 295 454 Jul 348 456 Aug 311 398 Sep 340 307 Oct 393 203 Nov...

Have you ever weighed the post pressed material? I’m intrigued to see if this freeze thaw method yields more juice. I made a batch of cider from apples I had stored in boxes in the dark for 10 days. I got 27 litres of juice and ditched 23kg of pressed scrat. Assuming 1 litre of juice is 1...

i‘m intrigued by the fact that you leave the scrat overnight. I read that this is how to make Perry, but that you shouldn’t do this with apples. The article didn’t give a reason, other than, pears release more juice, if you leave them to stand for 12 hours or more. Every time I’ve made Perry...

Buy yourself a garden shredder. It will shred around 100kg of apples in an hour. I made the inlet at the top larger than the small slit. They are easy to disassemble to wash the moving parts in hot soapy water, then rinse in cold to get the soap off, then reassemble and mist the moving parts...

Thanks. I’ll give it a go. Must be tropical enough in Aberdeenshire

I grew a Lemon Aji Chilli plant in 2021, which gave around 20 yellow fruits. It had a small offshoot at the base. With a couple of leaves on it. I cut the main plant off at the end of the 2021 season, and over winter the remaining small plant. This year I’ve got about 40 fruit off it . It...

I’ll turn the tele and phone charger off for £100, and take back what I said in Post 135

I’m on Standard Tarif, and the prices are based on today’s recent costs. I’ve got a second generation smart meter, and Scottish Power is my provider. There App produces the following data. The graph runs from midnight to midnight for any given day in half hour averages. The Y axis is in £...

My Spinone Gloria loves bananas for breakfast. She then goes bananas on the beach in the afternoon.

Have you tried tasting it? I would sterilise a turkey baster and get about 50ml out to try in a wine glass.

I siphon off what I can, bit like Boris, Lizzie and Kwasi (modo), into a second sterilised vessel. I get my Mrs to tip the bucket as the level gets towards the bottom. I then batch prime my brew, by adding 10g of sugar per litre of beer. Priming rate is for sparkling cider. I dissolve this...

The word “Hard” is pure comedy gold, but most of my responses would be unpublishable, and completely off topic.

Chippy, If you get the duster and pledge out, and give it the odd tickle around, then you’ll keep your coal fire forever. But be aware, it’s the start of a slippery slope!

Cheers

That was my understanding as well, but I was told today, that it was a complete reversal.

Is the threshold for employee contribution to be kept at £12570? Or is that going to be reduced back down to the £9000 figure?