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I think that you are under no obligation to have a smart meter and you can still have the better deals without one. There was a bit in Moneybox about it (may have been You and Yours).

Dulux make a washable matt white paint called EasyCare. Works well.

Like something out of a horror movie.

I have used a very cheap webcam on my RPi, it worked alright.

Says it all. ABS needs baking in an over for a few hours to drive any moisture out.

Just a thought about all these printing slipping on the bed. Could you not put put a thin plate on the bed, which will be attached well. By drilling some holes in the plate, printing into those holes first, the component should not be able to slip. Or you could put small pins in. You would have some holes to fill, or upstands to sand off, but has to be better than wasting all that printer time.

Cast acrylic, it more stable and optically clear. Probably get away with 4mm, maybe need 6mm.

Along with their other friends

Who argued? I don't think canals are treated the same as rivers. My sister has a canal boat business and is always whining about something or other to do with the authorities.

Just turn the (expletive deleted)ing light off before video with the iPad

Isn't it all over the top for a bathroom light, room that each individual probably only uses for 4% of their year.

Does that mean you can adjust the brightness while in that bath? If yes, is it done via a remote control or a phone. If no, what is the point.

Grow some trees on your paddock and your dream will come true. If you had planted some saplings when you started your build, it would be ready now. I look at hundreds of acres of horticultural land. I just think, what a waste just for some flowers. They wanted to build 1100 new homes around me, but all the rural sites got turned down. So they have build on ex industrial land, which costs more. So now we have a couple of hundred new houses that are quite expensive for the area. But we do now have a KFC and a new pub. And a Costa. I have never been in any of them.

What always surprises me with plumbing stuff is the ridiculous amount of fittings. Most are a minor variation on a theme. Is that really necessary?

I suspect that it is a combination of being shopped and random observations. A mate of mine used to live in a tent. Was a 9 man artic army tent. He could pack up and move on within a couple of hours. He then rented an industrial unit and lived in that for about 4 years.

Where is your PV? How were you going to get the power from that to the battery? As the fan is low power, you may well get away with smaller cable.

The thing about using an extension lead and a cheap fan is that it will use your PV generation as you will almost only ever need cooling when it is sunny, the very times that you over generate. 12 quid. 20 metres of extension https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rubberised-Outdoor-Extension-H-Frame-Carrier/dp/B077NDMC9Y 22 quid Sorted

Why not use a bathroom fan and an extension lead. A normal leisure battery will probably store about 1 kWh. So if you need 10 hours of forced air, the fan needs to be no more that 100 W.

Is there a difference in measuring, one voltage with no load, another voltage when fully loaded. Or just a rounding thing for marketing. I am 5' 5 1/12" When you get close to a half, you round up, so I am 6'. (also West Indian and very strong for special online marketing purposes)

As far as I know, no. There is what they call 'The Muddy Bank' at Penryn and lots of estuaries and tidal tributaries around Gweek and Constantine. The last time I had any dealings with the Muddy Bank lot, they were very hostile. Firsts picture in Muddy Bank, second is Gweek.

There are a few estuaries down here where you can, legally, put your boat for nothing. I have known a few people that have lived there. Call then the Freak at Gweek.

Could always get the boat onto the Bude Canal, there are no other narrow boats on it.

But still over £100,000 Could have my place for less, but anything but isolated and quiet.

Does in our house Same number of letters, and one is in the right place.

It is not you, as an individual, that they are concerned about, it is the possibility that several thousand people, who all have the same idea, do the same. The very thing you are after is only there because of our restrictive planning system. So it looks like you need to do it under the radar. Get a bit of woodland that has a decent access to a road (one thing that you need anyway), fence the area off so that it is obvious that it is private land, get a borehole drilled for your water. Then do nothing for 2 years. Then put a small, but old looking, shed, somewhere visible. Leave for a year. Then take it down, for another year. Then put up a slightly better one. This will, hopefully, attract attention. But why the authorities are looking at the shed, they may not notice the small cabin that you have hidden somewhere else. Or buy a small farm, rent out the house and most of the land, and live in a small corner of it. Or move to a country that allows this sort of thing.