Between blotch and blok

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 :-)