Shopping redux

[muninnhuginn]

So, the theremin is currently winning. If we buy it, we will have to have a theremin party so that bugshaw can take a look (and anyone else who's interested!).

We might splash out and buy an appropriate amp at the same time, thereby satisfying half of the_magician's suggestion.

purpletigron has a good suggestion and one we hadn't considered--except that we have enough surplus heat from the Esse that we don't really need panels to heat the water. We have considered getting ones to generate electricity tho'. Would take a little more cash than we have to spare at present, especially as the roof would probably need a good seeing to at the same time. Either kind of solar panel would probably save more money than the saving in eggs.

But, we're most defintitely thinking hard about those hens. And the lure, as timill rightly spotted of cool gizmos. They'd provide eggs for only about as much work as looking after the cats. They'd keep the slugs down in the garden and probably eat the some of weeds too. If they ate too many plants, we'd just have to grow more at the allotment. They'd provide a useful means of converting kitchen waste into droppings that are apparently good for gardens and for speeding up compost heaps. They'd lay eggs. And they'd cluck.

We like the idea of cluck. With eerie sf accompaniment.

Don't suppose we ever mentioned that one of our pet names as a kid was chicken?

Comments

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I do play a mean air theremin!

[muninnhuginn]

Giggles lots... and fails to think of an appropriately witty reply.

Sun lover

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Chickens do have a lot going for them - I voted for them :-) We have a neighbour with chickens, and the sound of the cockeral in the morning takes me happily back to my childhood, when my grandmother kept chickens, ducks and geese - I used to cuddle the chickens and run screaming from the geese :-)

The solar hot water panel would be a lot more affordable, with a much more sensible pay-back time, than solar PV. The technology for PV is alledgedly on the verge of a break-through, to bring payback times under 'an average human lifespan' (~80 years). But I want both :-)

Re: Sun lover

[muninnhuginn]

I admit, sitting in a for once none too warm bath last night, I began to warm to the notion of a solar hot water panel. (I've always wanted to use solar panels, ever since the family of one of my brother's friends got them in the early eighties.) It would actually complement the heat from the stove rather well: we do tend to have the Esse turned right down in the summer or we roast. I've looked at what's currently available for electricity and might have done it had we sufficient spare cash (so not since the spare cash sink was born!). Don't think we've got the roof space for both: the idea's tempting.