Monthly Archives: January 2012

Fire In The Valley!

29th January 2012 (Written Sunday morning) Dull days, Saturdays.. shopping, laundry, finishing leftover jobs. Until I heard the sound of a helicopter for the second time in a week.  Odd to hear any aircraft at all here, so I went … Continue reading

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Plodding On

29th January 2012 Seven weeks after I ordered a 25 litre drum of wood preservative, it finally arrived. Off-the-shelf wood preservatives have two great disadvantages: they generally are only available in small “home – handyman” sizes of up to five … Continue reading

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Energy: Conservation and Expenditure

23rd January 2012 Only just – the 23rd, that is, because it is late, but I’ll get to today even later. It has been a fairly uneventful week at Boggy Pond – mainly because I spent Wednesday to Friday of … Continue reading

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Bureaucratic Battles

15th January 2012 Well, I didn’t get to assemble the digester last week end after all. All the frantic sorting out and uploading of auditions I had done before Christmas remained unseen and ignored while everybody was “Home” in Europe, … Continue reading

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First Post!

4th January 2012 First post in my Caledon Post Box, that is, and it is a little weird all round. At left is the cover picture of a 2012 calendar, sent to me by my (ex) Mother-In-Law in Savonlinna, Finland. … Continue reading

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