muninnhuginn | Shopping redux

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?