Ferdinand

I think it's that some LAs "map view" functions have a linear measuring option. Mine used to have area as well, until they changed their platform (buggers). The feature still seems to be there on the Stroud DC Website. Or at least I could use it. eg if the link works https://publicaccess.stroud.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=map&keyVal=QKZ5LJPNITQ00 Then click on the ruler and choose the option. You can even measure the areas of a polygon. Seems to have all the option mine has lost. (Grrr) F

If you are (very) well-heeled there is always RMS The World, which is still sailing around as a residential cruise ship, though not really low impact and a bit more expensive than a narrowboat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_The_World Has someone mentioned the special scheme in Wales - the One Planet Development Scheme? I think one key is to look to places with regulatory systems formed by their experience of low population density, and to keep a route back in as you get older. I wonder if an EU Citizenship is useful at this point, to be able to continue to target more remote EU Countries.

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Attempts to prevent trade did not work - and they were imo trying to control it not prevent it. Even Erich Honecker and the Stasi did not succeed. The oak barleytwist chandelier, and its smaller mate, that I am currently trying to sell came back from Hungary in 1985 with my parents after mum's Conductive Education Course. And Praktika cameras (DDR) were on sale throughout the COMECON period. And at some stage Pentacon lenses. And Ladas, and all the other auto brands. So clearly trade was not prevented. As for in-country business, here's an article from the New York Times in 1975 about the Black Markets in Communist Countries. https://www.nytimes.com/1975/09/09/archives/black-markets-bloom-in-eastern-europe-behind-facade-of-straitlaced.html Including this interesting quote from an Economist in one of them: On the other, I think "business processes" is another category error by referring to an individual instance not the class. (In IT terms). "Business" here imo refers more to any one of the infinite universe of possible business, where the one (or many) selected are the ones that succeed in teh prevailing circumstances. The point is that if one doesn't succeed, another one will - you can say that say a price change is either a change of a parameter in a process instance, or a new process instance with the new price. There even existed private farms (in very small numbers) in Cuba right throughout his tyranny. I heard a BBC WS item once. Plus the black market of course. Perhaps I could extend the analogy to markets - where they are suppressed free markets turn into black markets, and they can't be stopped. Ferdinand

Do you have the numbers for where NI sales outside NI go? How much goes to ROI / EU? IIRC there is now quite a significant artisan and on-farm food businesses. F

Absolutely. I have see at least one article which assigns the difference to cloud cover now. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/agriculture/farming/10321390/Thanet-Earth-the-farm-of-the-future.html (Turn Javascript off to break the firewall)

Could there be a coastal effect, given that Thanet Earth is one mile from the coast? I guess that may be more on background temperature, or potentially cloud cover (?) Probably too far for reflected light.

I think your objectification / instantiation of "business" is a category error there. JHJ was referring to the process or practice, not the object. A better comparison for what I think he means is water flowing. Under the process of business, individual businesses will fill the available opportunities, and other individual businesses will close. One example is from friends in finance - equivalence with finance in the EU rather than full access, and regulatory requirements, will alter the balance between types of finance business. But also that other sectors will increase or new business will be created as a result. So the success of business is a sum of businesses, not a single item. Compare to how things have adjusted in response to the changing requirements under Covid. Some individual businesses have adjusted (eg burger van lady now selling takeaways off her drive), some have ended and started doing something else. F * Since JHJ popped his clogs in 2008, yes it was before the vote ?. He is now in the great garage in the sky, trying to mend the Ghost of a Morgan.

As was said at the time, and as EU officials repeated last week, no deal is better than a (sufficiently) bad deal. So we need a deal which is adequate for both parties.

17% ref here: https://hydromag.co.uk/industry-insider/thanet-earth/

Checked the number - 17% more light than the Midlands in winter. Thanet Earth seem to be quite creative in management of their power too. https://www.thanetearth.com/how-we-grow/sustainability

If this isn't Wentworth Woodhouse or very special, get a couple of quotes. For a full service throughout a newbuild, the rates would be approx 6-12% plus disbursements (eg Council Fees) to be in line with RIBA guidelines. Do you actually need anyone else to get a feel for the viability? Your costs will vary anyway, so an exact survey may be overdone - unless perhaps a firm price contract etc. You could offer eg time and materials terms.

Is that correct? (Noting the comment at the end.) Surely Irish online purchasers from the UK already face VAT, so it won't increase - rather substitute? (Are we into the complex territory of "reverse-VAT" claims where the supplier can reclaim the UK VAT as it has been paid in the second country? I'm not up on that but came across it following 'Prof' Richard Murphy down one of his many rabbitholes.) The customs charges exemption makes it look good for suppliers in NI. I wonder what % of goods are covered by the exemption to customs duties for purchases under 150 Euro. F

Hmm. That's an idea. If I were to update my ufh with a buffer tank, then I could put a heater in it and a diversion to use the solar currently fed back to the grid. Then I could feed that into the modulating Combi boiler to save some bills. Hmmm.

Time for some upbeat Zoot (not actually a repost).

Meet the Troglodytes... >but he knew where everything was! Including his towel? Is he a cool frood?

I much prefer the second plan. My comments at present: 1 - I don't like Jack and Jill bathrooms between 2 bedrooms, so I would turn it back into 2 ensuites ?. 2 - The downstairs bathroom - I would make that a little larger, with a shower in it (which you have lost?), and I would put in a door to the study so that it feels like an ensuite when a guest is staying, and they don't need to walk through your hall in their kecks. In the office consider a proper convertible settee rather than a bed. I mean a fold out 2 seater with a metal frame, or perhaps a real 2m settee - as an example I have a Guy Rogers Manhattan 1960s settee which gives a full size double bed. 3 - I quite like the angled corridor - adds imo more of a sense of occasion. 4 - I think that you have done a good job to simplify some of the complicated bits in the walls - that would have been expensive to build. 5 - I think that the sticky-outy utility room is a little bizarre, but I can't see a resolution without either shuffling space around between rooms or changing the floorplan (eg by squaring off the bottom right corner and altering the living space plan). 6 - I think you want to give some slow thought to how you will live between the house and garden, use cases etc. eg Where will eat outside / BBQ / sit in the sun / kids play / grow veggies / grow your roses or whatever if you do / sunbathe / throw balls for the doglet / sit in the rain / eat breakfast lunch tea / have a party / put the washing line / have the shed. 7 - Do you need somewhere for a gym type space? 8 - For outside I would perhaps consider an arcade (ie with a roof) along the S end of the house - a walkway where the dining table is, opening out to an undercover eating / sitting space outside the sitting area. And think about the patio doors. Reasons are to tie the house down in the garden, and to give you some sun control on your S-facing windows if the house is a decent specification. I'm planning something like that with my solar panels on top. 9 - I think there is probably merit in shifting it 1-3m North to give you a little more S-facing grounds. 10 - Is the Dressing Room too large? 11 - Provision for a lift, in case you stay there so long that it becomes your "decline and die in" house? Ferdinand

I just bought my sausages, and ox-tongue, from the farm shop. Whilst we were all queueing, a chap walked past and into the back with a pig over his shoulder. Lady at the back of the socially distanced queue outside asked the chap "Are there any tomato sausages in the shop?" "There will be by the time you reach the front of that queue." Quite sharp ?

I would apply an intermediate layer of weed membrane below the top layer, whatever you do underneath.

I'm picking up my ox-tongue later today. Do you get the eye? You have a moral duty to tell the children the "What do you call a blind deer?" quip, flourishing the eye. (No idea). Followed by the "What do you call a blind deer with no legs", flourishing the leg. (Still no idea). (Gets coat)

I planted my Christmas microveg at the weekend. ?

One reason they put it in Thanet is the light level - apparently here in the Midlands I get 20% less. For your area you would presumably benefit from the West Coast mcroclimate, but would need to think about light and perhaps heat. But there's certainly potential here imo. I do not know the Dutch climate though.

WD40 seems to have fixed mine ?. Thanks all.

"The agricultural area used is 23.07 million acres (9.34 million hectares), about 70% of the land area of the England. 36% of the agricultural land is croppable (arable), or 25% of the total land area. Most of the rest is grassland, rough grazing, or woodland." Pastoral roughly 17 million Ha. Arable roughly 4.75 million Ha. Horticultural roughly 0.175 million Ha. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/208436/auk-2012-25jun13.pdf 2012 numbers but probably good enough. On Thanet Earth (91 hectares): "It is the largest greenhouse complex in the UK, covering 90 hectares, or 220 acres (0.89 km2) of land.[1] The glasshouses produce approximately 400 million tomatoes, 24 million peppers and 30 million cucumbers a year, equal to roughly 12, 11 and 8 per cent respectively of Britain’s entire annual production of those salad ingredients." Note it says production not consumption.

Maybe OT: Is there a minimum level of EPC required in order to get a grant for a heat pump under GHG?