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• Truckalorry Time
  on Mar 2, 2016 in earthstuff ecology ecotechnology
  There's that grumbling thunder in the distance again, the grunting roar of another truck rumbling downhill, picking up the speed to make it up the next hill, gears grinding as the driver changes up and up again to goad his vehicle, burdened by its lo...
• Experimental Gardening: Quinoa
  on Oct 2, 2014 in agrobiodiversity food-gardening research
  Quinoa is one of the things we like to call Ooh Aah Foods – wonder foods that some of our hippy neighbours consider a cure-all for everything. Originating from the South Americas it really is a wonderful grain, and very healthful; stuffed with esse...
• Cultivating Community
  on Jun 19, 2014 in climate-change community earthstuff environment experiment forest history knysna sustainability
  tl;dr: We're forming a local conservancy with the goals of preserving our neighbourhood's natural and historic environment, and, hopefully, as a tool to help us build a community with some resilience against climate change and post-carbon energy desc...
• World Made by Nuts
  on Jun 14, 2014 in climate-change insanesociety
  So yesterday was one of those days when you just know you're going to waste a bunch of time attending to annoying, but sort-of necessary, stuff.The car has been giving some trouble, and nobody in town was able to pin it down. Yeah, it is an almost 20...
• Today I Learned...
  on Jan 13, 2014 in beer brewing learning
  A friend visiting from Sweden brought us a few beers to sample, chiefly a few Christmas (spiced) Ales, or Julöls, which are apparently popular there. Among them a Cacao Porter from the Malmö Brewery which he praised highly. Now both of us are very...
• Measuring Energy
  on Dec 19, 2013 in energy madscience
  Not sure why the picture shows cost in £. The device is equally happy to display cost in our native R.One of the best birthday presents I've ever received was an Energy Monitor given to me by one of my sons this year. Electrical Energy Monitor,...
• Spring Planting has Begun
  on Sep 16, 2013 in seed-sowing spring
  Hopefully slightly more relevant than my last post about The Crooked Car Dealer.At long last. The first seeds of the season have been sown.It's been a very sullen, cold and slow Spring so far. I know that some of my neighbours have taken their chance...
• Crooked Car Dealer
  on Sep 16, 2013 in anton-pretorius caw-motors crook fraud thief used-car
  This purpose of this post is simply to get the word into Googles Enormous Engine about a particular crooked car dealer so that any poor soul searching for a used car might be lucky enough to search first and so avoid dealing with this particular cret...
• Lettuce Prey
  on Jun 1, 2013 in lettuce seed
  I've been updating some of the info pages on the wiki... writing down some of the initial info (with pictures) of some of the Lettuce varieties I'm growing for seed this Autumn. The aim is to record much better notes on the habits, uses and cultivati...
• Home-made No-Rinse Sanitiser
  on Feb 13, 2013 in cleaning waste sanitising frugal-living pollution
  A major part of being somewhat self-sufficient is the need to safely "dispose of waste". For example, how do you "get rid" of paint thinners or leftover paint? In some parts of the world towns and cities provide places where you can take these noxiou...

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