Entries Tagged as ‘Practising’

March 22, 2009

“Are we in Australia yet?”

“No.. keep digging!”
Tee hee.
Well, we’re this far in now:

and already I’m wondering whether it’s in the right place. “Is it wise to build so close to the path?” “What if the baby falls off the edge? We’ll need to fence it..” and “When you take into account the [straw bale] thickness [...]

July 25, 2008

The grid in our heads

Working in the field yesterday, listening to the radio, I heard that our government is about to sell most of our future power grid provision to the French government. I don’t know much about the French government, but a couple of questions spring to mind: what is it about our power industry that makes it [...]

February 28, 2008

Hmm, not quite *everywhere*..

We’re having a sample taste of off-gridness today. Our water was turned off yesterday for the new bathroom sink to be plumbed in, but then the connections weren’t the right ones, the wall needed drilling (too late at night for the neighbours) and for some reason the open pipes couldn’t be closed until those things [...]