That sounds like a good system, made properly and to last in those days. Never quite sure about all the cheaper Chinese made ones these days. During the day it's a good time to run things with surplus capacity available, requires a change of mindset compared with putting things on at night.

Very lucky it was OK. A freak spark.

Well, that's what she said, I don't think she had any concept of how it could be construed 🤣

Wow that's some impressive growth although its a fair few years. Rolling a reply to several of your posts into one to save filling the whole thread with long missives - seeing how high up you are it seems surprising you have so many springs etc, I suppose there is a lot more rain/water in...

OK, I'll try not to make this too lengthy and boring, I spent much of last night looking for a photo which might help explain part of it because I definitely emailed it to the electricity people for them to forward to Endesa and convince them that a repair was necessary, but I couldn't recover...

Well done to him, the pitch looked good.

Wow that's quite a result. I have had quite a bit of free stuff over the years although Mrs 6pot says it's my fault for agreeing to accept other people's junk. To be fair some of it was junk but you know, one person's rubbish is another person's treasure..... She may have had a point about...

Impressive, how much power do you get out of that array?

Blimey I could do with about 20 of them. They ain't free 'ere...

Springs! Lucky you, our plants get grey water. You are right, water can end up being the biggest problem. Some of the other wells near us get no water at all, we only get 300 litres a day but we are very efficient with it. Re your concrete slab the power of water can be amazing. That and...

I think I saw one of those the other day on someone else's cube. I was thinking of making something up just to keep the sun off them but never got round to it. Will probably do it for the new ones. Lucky you with the rain, its unlikely to rain again here for another 2/3 months.

You are more self sufficient than us then. At the risk of more or less copying @Stanleysteamer 's question, what do you do for electricity? We used to get a lot of power cuts and occasionally found that there were only two out of three phases working which is dangerous for the heath of the well...

Lovely - I do love a shallot, onions in general, red onions, pickled onions, fried onions, onion chutney etc. etc.

A well and deliveries by lorry. The well will be lost when we sell the old house. At new house I had the tank put on the highest part of the land so at least its good on gravity now, pumping is a nuisance as surprisingly expensive. So then it will be lorries only. They are 10000 L and I...

Very useful for grey water and rain water with linking pipes off the valves. Many of ours are perishing now and the pallets have vanished. I'll be junking some soon but the metal cages are good for containing firewood and other offcuts.

Sounds very similar. Post with the house address will go to the village post office because 'it doesn't exist' and it just sits on a shelf until it gets returned 2 weeks later. Often mixed up too, I've ended up sorting through loads of people's letters to check in the past. So we don't bother...

Same here, its hard to get the same thing twice, a nightmare when matching is important. Materials being stocked is the inevitable result, we've been tripping over a lot of stuff for ages while things progress.

Insurance has gone up a lot. Tax too, I was looking at tax for the Laguna the other day and it's 340 sovs! Gone up 70 quid in three years. I suppose its because its 2 litre and old, they want cars like that off the road.

I would question any lawyer/solicitor who allowed the change of will to be done under those circumstances.

Nice - watcha planning on doing with them?