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And ideal (expletive deleted) like me. When I have driven less than a mile from work, I have forgotten all about it.

That is because it is working like an IR heater. It is not heating the air, just the object it hits that have a better absorption characteristics It is why it does not feel terribly hot when you are standing out, in full sun a few degrees either side of the equator, the rays are hitting your head, which only has a small surface area. 7 AM in a UK summer can feel very warm as the rays are hitting all your body, face included.

I go for a daily coffee for human interaction. Living alone is great, but going days without interactions can be quite dangerous health-wise. A Macdonald's Single Cheeseburger is only £1/kWh. I stop for two on the way back from my mother's on the weekends. Small treats are quite important in life, the cheaper they are, the better IMO.

No, they just hung like ordinary nets in the inside. There old house had a small, 3 sided, South facing, courtyard that got very warm. The nets were on the French Doors that opened onto a wide passage that ran between the old house and the newer part. Never remember it getting hot inside. Would have just taking a dip in the swimming pool if it had.

So less that 2 Costa Coffees then. Energy is really still quite cheap. A double quarter pounder costs £4.39 and only has 0.86 kWh in it.

My parents had some solar net curtains in their old house. They worked well and where machine washable. Hardly noticed them to be honest.

The early 80s recession hit Dorset quite badly, why I went to college. Never thought that financial services would become the local industry. Or that Sunseeker would start to make multi million pound boats. Or Penske would make some truly great cars (was offered a job but it never materialised, so went to Tiga). A workmate, who had been a special FX man in the movies (Ray Hanson) said, "live in a nice place, work where the money is". Not a bad thing to do. I am currently sitting in the sun, looking at an empty harbour.

No, went to university there, though back then it was Wallisdown college of HE. After a decade away I bought a holiday home in Weymouth. Who would have thought that a decade later the Olympics would have arrived in town. Class mate of mine had a girlfriend whose father was the owner of the Corrie Hotel in Swanage. We used to call her Tricia Yates as she had the same hairstyle.

Tis since I moved away in 1983.

I had the same problem with my front door. Took me years to get around to sorting it properly. Now it is water and wind tight. Should have done it when I moved in. Back door has a different problem, going to see what I can do with that later today.

And improve the bio-diversity score. Yes, works a treat for me, and requires very little capital expenditure. Though I think I am close to the lower bound of what can be achieved.

Can you pick up on the University broadband? I was there last Sunday, B&Q, getting a saw to chop some branches off.

Will it stop you seeing this?

Stair lift is even better. Last weekend my Mother made herself a midnight snack, without waking me up. Brilliant. A good idea from a fire safety perspective, a thumb turn internally would have been best in that case. Sister has been teaching her to lock doors this week. Tieing key to door handle helps. They know where it is, can't drop it on floor, and hopefully remember to take it out of lock. We have a key safe outside. Written the number on a bit of paper and taped it to a back window. Then anyone can get in if they need to, once we tell them which window to look at.

Welcome What do you actually mean by that, there is no real definition. Cast concrete, steel reinforcement with aluminium window frames can be Eco, as long as you clad it in timber and put a PV module on the roof. And make sure the drive is water permeable, don't want the Rangerover wheels getting wet.

Always remember when looking at very old buildings, they are the ones that survived. All the others from the same time have vanished. Always worth looking up the work of Prof Richard Gott, III

Cool, shall invite my sister around and see what happens.

I wonder if there are enough eddies to warm up the cutlery.

You can get all the relevant criterion here. https://mcscertified.com/mcs-launch-new-improved-heat-pump-calculator/

Cut dom of the back of the draw off. Does your hob need ventilation under it. Mine does.

You would follow a link if asked to though.

And flavour.

I can create a page of relaxing, but muscle enhancing, images just for you.

How so. A few pages on a admin blog, with a permanent link as below.