Something special for November, this was recorded when the kittens Angus and Maltilda, first arrived home! They are somewhat larger now 6/7 months later!
Thanks to Phoebe and Chrissie! BTW our cats are not Smelly! Sorry Cats!
Archive for the ‘house’ Category
As they were!
Saturday, November 17th, 2007Apologies for loss of service!
Friday, November 9th, 2007Apologies for loss of service!
This was caused for reasons unknown, and my web hosting broke on Saturday 3rd November 2007 at midday!
No basic web services have been available until now.
Little Outage!
Monday, November 5th, 2007Web Hosting has gone a little strange, it’s being investigated!
The Great Pumpkin Massacre
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007The Great Pumpkin Massacre is upon us again. Happy Halloween!
As tradition, we’ve got our pumpkins carved and on display again!
Demonstration of Wattson
Monday, October 29th, 2007Planting Seeds
Sunday, October 28th, 2007Planting more seeds today later in the greenhouse, postponed moving the last three fish tanks into the fish house because the weather is terrible.
So here’s some more pictures of my new friend “Wattson”
Polar Bear Killer!
Saturday, October 27th, 2007
20.7kW (realtime reading of electricity being consumed at 1.30am 27/10/07)
Maybe I need to change the subject title, doesn’t seem very nice, and what’s this go to do with the House Blog. You’ll probably hear this term more and more, as we all strive for a greener planet and reduce our carbon foot prints! Has the penny dropped yet!
To celebrate my big birthday coming up in November, I’ve purchased myself a present from Better Generation, it’s a Smart Electricity Meter called a Wattson by DIY Kyoto. I’ve already got a few power meters, that I purchased in October 2005, see my review here these record the power being used by an individual appliance, or if you use a four/six-way adaptor, you can measure combined power, I’ve been using these in my fish house for years. But want I wanted was a device that could measure total power consumed after the electricity meter before the consumer unit (fusebox), transmit it remotely to a display in the house, and finally output and record the information to a PC, so I can compare electricity consumption versus temperature in the fish house and outside during the winter and summer months. Also looking at the electricity used by our Economy 7 Storage and Immersion Heaters.
I pre-ordered this unit, at the beginning of October ’07, and it arrived yesterday it’s FANTASTIC!. I’m not going to write a review, because there our lots of fab reviews out there about the product, check Better Generation for one.
It’s a designer gadget with mood lighting that measures electicity consumed and outputs it to a PC.
The Wattson smart electricity meter showing 21,000 Watts (21kW) being used at 1.30am last night, when the storage heaters came on! Average consumption is about 3kW in the house.
Happy Picture for October
Thursday, October 18th, 2007It shows how warm Autumn is when I caught this butterfly flying around at Burton Agnes house yesterday. But we also had our first frost of the year last night!
Red Admiral Butterfly in October
Border Almost finished
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007Here are the latest pictures of the new garden border in the front garden, now fully planted. I just need to spread some more bark/mulch around the plants.
The lounge is almost complete, blind fitted to rear window, and in discussion with local design company to fit and forge custom steel curtain rail pole and curtains for bay window.
A New Garden Border continued … (again!)
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Lindsey’s says this is much better! Don’t you think! Umm..!
Needs double digging and soil improver adding, and the planting and mulching.
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