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Jun 2022
2:51pm, 22 Jun 2022
90,364 posts
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Hanneke
Oh and 75 metres of native, prickly hedge with extra dog roses and sweet briar! Razor wire with pretty flowers and hips!
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Jun 2022
3:12pm, 22 Jun 2022
2,658 posts
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cackleberry
Oh Hanneke that is awful. I remember you talking about problems with them during Covid.
And I thought we had problems with rabbits getting in!
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Jun 2022
3:30pm, 22 Jun 2022
22,859 posts
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Bazoaxe
Some people are pretty weird. These sound like an extreme example.
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Jun 2022
3:40pm, 22 Jun 2022
17,356 posts
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rf_fozzy
If someone wandered into my house uninvited, I'd be tempted to punch them in the face....
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Jun 2022
4:02pm, 22 Jun 2022
12,772 posts
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jda
Weirdos gonna weirdo.
Sea buckthorn is a particularly good choice for boundaries. Not something you’d tangle with twice.
As for off grid, I’d definitely suggest a mix of wind and solar if you have reasonable site for both. But even then, you can get still dull cold spells in winter. If you can say “ok I will just cope with this exceptional situation” and be prepared to hunker down in front of a wood stove for a few days then it will be a lot cheaper than having to have full electric power storage for all conditions.
After all, people in remote areas who are on the grid get power cuts occasionally anyway, and have to cope, sometimes for a few days or more.
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Jun 2022
4:05pm, 22 Jun 2022
42,706 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
How much power could you generate with a Watt Bike jda?! Just get on and peal, in extremis! And it's good for your health too!  G
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Jun 2022
4:30pm, 22 Jun 2022
12,773 posts
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jda
About 200W for a lengthy period of time, but that’s a lot of effort for a 20p unit!
LED torches with some (normal) rechargeable batteries may be a more practical solution for the barest of minimum requirements. We have some sets of head torches for night running which proved very useful when we had a spate of winter power cuts a while back (oh, and also when Japan had scheduled power cuts for a while after the tsunami). Domestic heating and cooking would be outside that sort of scope though.
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Jun 2022
4:44pm, 22 Jun 2022
2,659 posts
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cackleberry
"Sea buckthorn is a particularly good choice for boundaries. Not something you’d tangle with twice."
Edible too, double win
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Jun 2022
4:57pm, 22 Jun 2022
42,709 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Was thinking for Hann, in an emergency, rather than saving money.
0.2kWh, if you pedalled for an hour, would then power a light bulb and a laptop or other computing device for a wee while. But I agree, it wouldn't boil a kettle!
If you are currently on-grid, I wouldn't disconnect. Just find the one with lowest daily standing charge (20p a day is £70 per annum?) as a back up, even if the per kWh unit charge is enormous, because you'd hope to never be using it.
Wind can generate a lot of electricity. But siting the turbine is hard under current planning regs. Stupid really, we should all have roof top solar and wind and be doing as much local generation as we can. Reduce the load on the central network. G
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Jun 2022
6:06pm, 22 Jun 2022
6,485 posts
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Hunkyteddy
Feeling pretty chuffed with myself at the moment.
After No Mow May, I decided to cut my grass. But I spotted a bee pollinating a flower, so I decided to leave have of the lawn uncut.
Its not a very big lawn, but in an area about 3 metres by 2 metres there are probably over a hundred little white flowers, and as many buttercups.
I have just been out and there must have been 5 or 6 different bees pollinating the white flowers. Its great to think that I did that, by doing nothing.
I'll keep it uncut as long as I can, I will need to cut it eventually as I suspect the white flowers will get outgrown with the long wispy weeds, and do the same next year.
Its so much better than having a bowling green or even worse, plastic turf!
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