Posts by Hebe
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Hard News: Thatcher, in reply to Danielle,
Odd how the Gipper and the Iron Lady both had dementia at the end. Early onset would explain their politics.
Sorry Russell; surely trout is ungendered?
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That cacky blue. That hair. That vile old trout. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/8097619/Margaret-Thatcher-the-lady-is-not-for-turning-speech-archive-footage.html
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I have never again experienced the bleak, pervasive sense of alienation she fostered in government.
Exactly. I worked in London 1985-90 in the MSM and in the agitprop industry. That woman was and is anathema to me. I have not a good word to say about her and her government; their policies and the awful, awful carnage inflicted on individuals and society under her ideological jackboot. Rob Muldoon was a eccentric old uncle in comparison -- and he had a sense of humour. Thatcher and her people had none; a clear sign of fanaticism and stupidity.
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I can't tell you the specifics of the 14K figure (mainly because I don't understand the technical details and it was a verbal price). It included a cold-tolerant solar hot water system, an electric back-up, a large cylinder to be installed in a tight space, and what seems to me to be lots of work on the roof to support the panels and then to angle them to the best way to catch the sun (the roof runs north to south with the long sides on the east and west, and a couple of inconvenient hips and gullies on the shortest and sunniest part). Not to mention some new roofing iron and I think reinforcing of the roof timbers.
All up too expensive and too much bother compared to the benefit (this is not our forever house). I am still mulling a heat pump sytem for heating hot water, which would be very cost-effective (to do that we need to fix the deck post earthquakes; before the deck can be fixed, the house needs to be relevelle and the crumbled ring foundations replaced. By that time solar could well have dropped in price!).
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Nora Leggs,
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Have you eaten it yet?
No, it is 5 to 6cm high, so not much of a meal there! Technically it is two potatoes: one with Mickey Mouse ears and another dangling on the cord (stolon?) I wish I had taken a photo of the two rude tomatoes we harvested a few weeks ago. they were remarkably, er, protuberant. I am trying also to capture a photo of Bossy Flossy with no clothes on: she is moulting horribly. She seems aware of her tattiness and runs into the bushes when anyone comes near.
Peculiar veges and gargoyle animals: suburban Kiwi gothic.
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The weirdest potato in the world came out of our backyard today.
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Basilica in better days
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Hard News: Done like a dinner, in reply to Chris Waugh,
For a small house in Christchurch we are looking at at least $14,000 for solar.
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Capture: Got the blues, in reply to Robert Urquhart,
Antonio Hall?
