where eagles fear to perch

musings on simple living, gardening, personal finance plus my projects and experiments...

17 June 2013

Mole encounter....

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My wife called to me from the garden earlier today - from the kitchen window, she'd seen a magpie pecking at the grass out the back.  N...
14 June 2013

Beating inflation at a local level...

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How much do macro-economic statistics actually matter to you ? Take, for instance, the oft-quoted official rates of inflation.   They...
28 May 2013

DIY landscaping of the extended garden....

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The latest major project has been to clean up the garden, particularly the extension to the land we bought last November.   We decided to ...
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25 May 2013

Planting Grapevines in the Greenhouse...

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A month or so ago we bought two young grapevines from our local nursery.  They were quite expensive at £15 each, but hopefully we'll be...
24 May 2013

Solar Panel Performance - one year on

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We now have one full year's worth of operational data from our five-panel experimental array, rated at 540 Watt-peak (Wp) in total. S...
19 May 2013

Homemade Axial Flux Generator - Part 2 - The Coils

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Following on from our earlier post , quite a while back now, I managed to get around to constructing a stator coil a month or so ago.   Thi...
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30 April 2013

Greenhouse Irrigation / Watering System.....

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Apologies if the title makes this sound rather more than grand than it actually is – it's just a very simple piping system to capture...
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Yes, I know it's a Kestrel and not an Eagle, which are pretty thin on the ground in northern England. However, this is a photo I took myself of a kestrel hovering over the fields next to our house. Note that I'm not a financial adviser, and so you should regard anything I post about personal finance as being worth exactly what you paid for it, i.e. nothing !
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