Category Archives: Environment

How much?! A mind-numbing water leak

Posted on January 16, 2026 by james

Our water supplier read the meter at the start of last September which prompted a letter to me just before they sent the bill saying, “Errr, your bill is going to be quite big. Do you have a leak?”. “Quite … Continue reading →

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Eek! The rain!

Posted on January 16, 2026 by james

First heavy rain of the Autumn after a long, dry Summer, and half of it ends up in the workshop! Not certain how I’m going stop this happening again for the moment.

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Lord of the fruit flies?

Posted on January 14, 2026 by james

I have no idea what’s going on here, but for a week or more these flies were congregating on this corner of the house in their thousands. Possibly tens of thousands. There were so many that it was possible to … Continue reading →

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Damsons? In the last week of September?

Posted on January 14, 2026 by james

It has just been a really, really weird year…

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Spring and Autumn all in one day

Posted on January 14, 2026 by james

From an orchard where I was picking apples for cider…

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It might look like rain forest

Posted on January 13, 2026 by james

but actually this is just Willett Hill, and a lot colder!

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Field fire!

Posted on January 13, 2026 by james

Everything became so incredibly dry this Summer. Our grass had gone way beyond crispy. And then one day I noticed this out of the window. I believe the farmer was harvesting the straw from this field and presumably something caused … Continue reading →

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Lord of the flies

Posted on January 11, 2026 by james

In the Summer of 2025, the flies were just horrifying. Being so hot and dry outdoors they seemed to congregate anywhere there was some shade. Thousands upon thousands of them. It wasn’t just me, either. Everyone else I spoke to … Continue reading →

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What a load of rubbish!

Posted on January 11, 2026 by james

Or not. We have recycling collections every week — cans/plastics, glass and paper/card. We’re supposed to do food waste as well, but that all gets composted. And in fact a fair bit of the paper and card also ends up … Continue reading →

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Does the BBC realise that National Grid isn’t?

Posted on January 9, 2026 by james

Catching up with the aftermath of Storm Cornetto Goretti, I’ve just read on the BBC News website: More than 44,000 properties across the UK remain without power, according to updated figures from the National Grid But National Grid are not … Continue reading →

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