where eagles fear to perch

Earlier this year, we decided to have a go at making our own solar panels.    It's very much a small and experimental array to check ou...

It was time for a holiday, the first real one we'd had since a package to Turkey in 2008, although admittedly we did spend around ...

Making your own wine is a great pastime on many levels.... Firstly, it's very cheap and the taxman doesn't get to surreptiti...

Our home is fitted with a ten-year old Worcester 15/19 oil-fired combination boiler which provides the heating and hot water.   Where we...

I can hear you yawning already – not another self-righteous blog by some rich git about how it's possible to live cheaply by boiling ...