Energy usage
I’ve been tracking my homes annual energy usage for several years now. For the last few it’s been fairly stable at around 19,000Kwh gas and 6,500Kwh electricity. This year, with our new central heating...
View ArticleGreen printing?
This week my trusty old Canon IP4000 inkjet stopped working. Changing the cartridges and running deep cleaning cycles make no difference. The print quality has been slowly falling off for some time...
View ArticleHalf term break
I planned this last weeks vacation with my family on the spur of the moment nearly 9 months ago, more as a means of using up some of my accrued vacation than out of any real desire to take this...
View ArticleThe sound of silence – briefly
Yesterday we packed our middle daughter off to a week of pony camp. She’s only an hour away, but it’s the longest she’s been away from us. We were suitably apprehensive. But when we arrived we were met...
View ArticlePrinter statistics
My Lexmark laser printer started complaining about low toner in the back cartridge today. I’ve had the printer just over a year, but even so, I was surprised that it had got through 2500 sides of text...
View ArticlePrinter statistics (ongoing)
Time has been passing. And I’ve studiously ignored the warnings from the printer, and kept on sending it jobs. Which it has kept on printing. Beautifully. I’m now at a total of 885 impressions (348...
View ArticleState of mind
It’s been a long time since I last posted anything here about my treatment. Actually, it’s been a long time since I posted almost anything here. And I’ve been pretty distant and difficult to contact in...
View ArticlePassing time
The Easter fortnight was my negotiated opportunity to take a last holiday away with my family before the onset of my next round of treatment. In the end, some of that time actually got spent doing...
View ArticleCalling home, free of charge
I’ve just been through a period of travel hell; individually each of the the three back-to-back trips are interesting, useful, and in some ways, quite good fun. But they’re back to back. So over a 17...
View Article“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry” – Thomas Fuller
Between the increasing population density in my part of the UK, an apparently ever increasing demand for water (150 litres per person per day, apparently) and the impact of climate change, our water...
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