Ecological Debt Day or Earth Overshoot Day arrived. Yesterday. Each year someone that is better with numbers than I works out a calendar date on which humanity's resource consumption for the year reaches a deficit. We cannot regenerate renewable resources quick enough within the same year. The actual science and calculations behind the day are … Continue reading Ecological Debt Day 2017
I have been thoroughly frustrated with my current life and lifestyle for some time now. There is simply a lot going on in a very short period of my life. That short period however appears to be stretching itself out into a longer period of a what is now about 3 years. Which leads me … Continue reading Man and the Age of Discontent
What a busy month. I had hallucinations of writing posts on various topics, yet other priorities have encroached on my time and before I am aware of it another 30 odd days has elapsed. The renovation is building momentum. My wife and I did two trips to Perth. Literally a day trip where we left … Continue reading 1 August 2017
Finally, we’ve made a decision on how we will be heating our water once the house is renovated After much research and asking friends about their experiences, some consultation with our local renewable energy guru and some logical thinking, we settled on a Solahart system. The benefits are that the storage and heating collection is … Continue reading Tillellan – Solar Hot Water System
The actual age of Tillellan has been a relative mystery to us. Gran has tried to piece together stories and images from the past to the best of her ability. This has had Tillellan's age jump in and around somewhere between 1916 and the 1920's. A friend of ours who had recently dated her house … Continue reading Tillellan – c.1933
Petit Paradis 