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Invention makes bath greener than shower
Baths use a lot more water than showers, so on a simple calculation there’s more energy going down the drain each time you choose the bath over the shower. But what happens if the water doesn’t go down the drain? It’s the equivalent of a giant radiator pumping heat into the bathroom, and eventually spreading…
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Reuben Gaunt Diary 1847-1854
2nd January 1847 22nd January 1847 23rd January 1847 15th February 1847 A meeting was held in the Methodist School to take into consideration the state of the poor, when it was resolved to open a subscription and the sum of £26.14. O was subscribed. The poor of Farsley is in a very bad state.…
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Reuben Gaunt Diary 1845-1846
1st January 1845 13th January 1845 20th January 1845 24th January 1845 26th January 1845 27th January 1845 1st February 1845 3rd February 1845 8th February 1845 16th February 1845 17th February 1845 26th February 1845 27th February 1845 3rd March 1845 8th March 1845 13th March 1845 12th March 1845 2nd April 1845 19th…
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Reuben Gaunt Diary 1844
lst January 1844 9th January 1844 10th January 1844 llth January 1844 24th January 1844 Sunday 27th January 1844 3rd February 1844 1844 Receipts for dyeing various coloursFor Green per stoneFustic 21bs.Allum 21bs.Extract of Indigo 2lbs.For Scarlet per stoneLat Dye llb. 8ozs.White Argills l 8Lac Spirits 3 0Young Fustic 8Scucheon Heel 2For Sky Blue per…
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Reuben Gaunt Diary 1843
Sunday 1st January 1843 7th January 1843 Sunday 8th January 1843 10th January 1843 12th January 1843 13th January 1843 Tuesday 17th January 1843 18th January 1843 19th January 1843 21st January 1843 21st January 1843 Sunday 22nd January 1843 24th January 1843 Friday 20th January 1843 Thursday 26th January 1843 1st February 1843 3rd…
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Reuben Gaunt’s Diary 1841-1842
R E U B E N G A U N T Mount PleasantFarsley 20th March, 1841. RUTH STRONG in about 1975 INDEX ‘ ‘ Denotes the original spelling marked on the first occasion of use only [ ] Where it is not possible to be sure of the meaning of the handwriting or shorthand the…
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Ukraine war didn’t cause price increases
How many times have I heard journalists and politicians trot out the explanation that the war in Ukraine has caused the price of fuel (and so everything else) to increase because of vaguely hand-waving, mumble, sanctions, mumble, obvious consequences, war, shortage, price increases. However even a cursory glance at the cost of gas over the…
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Stumps
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Solar monitor
Although the two inverters on our solar panels are supposed to have a serial data output I have struggled to get one of them to work at all. So I thought it would be a nice little project to do using a Raspberry Pi pico using the Rust programming language. In outline the plan is…
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Rest is Politics
We enjoyed listening to Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart talking about recent upheavals in government on their pod cast: the rest is politics (probably available on your favorite streaming service too). But I did notice them talking about austerity and cuts as if this was a fact. Bizarrely, although I’ve looked to see where cuts…
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Split blog using categories
After a bit of messing around I’ve managed to split my general entries from the ones for dad’s accident. Next job starting posting something interesting. First project is to switch the immersion heater on and off at times to fit in with solar power and the new gov. incentives. The problem is that the solar…