Purple Daze
by
Rose-Bay Willowherb
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
Waiting To Open
Welcome to my new wordpress blog theme – designed by yours truly! I must admit to being quite pleased as I have never attempted anything quite like this before – looking through templates and choosing one is as technical as I have been in the past! What do you think? Is it a keeper? It feels…
An excerpt from Sustainable Energy – without the hot air – David J.C. MacKay UIT Cambridge, 2008. ISBN 978-0-9544529-3-3. Available free online from www.withouthotair.com. “One of the main sinks of energy in the “developed” world is the creation of stuff. In its natural life cycle, stuff passes through three stages. First, a new-born stuff is…
Sometimes when you work at home one day can blend into the next without you noticing. To make today, being Sunday, a little different we had a late breakfast of buckwheat pancakes. Sorry that I don’t have a yummylicious photograph however none of the pancakes lasted long enough to photographed! I found a basic pancake recipe and substituted 300 gr buckwheat flour…
Unfortunately the photos from this old post have been lost We are getting used to this new way of living, going to town one day a week, working outside when the sun is shining then coming in to work on our computers and read beside the stove in the late afternoon. Looking through the food…
I don’t tend towards exageration however I have to say that we are on the edge of environmental disaster here in the North West of Ireland. We are about to allow a few large shale gas mining corporations, using hydraulic fracturing drilling methods, to waltz in here and destroy our watertables, our aquifers – in…
2008/08/30 This post became lost in cyberspace and today was found – it should have been posted back in August 2008 and probably was stored in drafts because of a dodgy modem connection – now it can be put in it’s rightful place – no longer a lowly draft…….. I accidentally did some gardening today, I had…