where eagles fear to perch

Firstly, my apologies for what is quite a long post without any pictures to break up the text....one of the advantages of writing this bl...

Like most households, the amount of paper regularly pushed through our letterbox is astounding.     Every week, we receive reams of local...

In 2009, after we returned from a spell of working overseas, I started designing and building an experimental wind turbine. However, wh...

With the experimental photovoltaic (PV) solar panels in place and operating, I started to wonder about the feasibility of getting useful b...

As I've mentioned before, we live in a semi-rural location adjacent to farmland and a local woodland nature reserve, and we're l...

In praise of the ISA.....(that's the 'Individual Savings Account' in the UK, which allows you shield capital growth and distrib...

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...