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Quite a lot actually.  The hydro has 5 days to go in this quarter and it is already our highest single quarter of generation since we started in 2012.  So in my book, that makes it the wettest quarter for 6 years and that doesn’t take into account all the additional rainwater that couldn’t fit into the turbine’s 3kWh limit. Look how much is ‘going to waste’ here! Sue has been manfully… Read More

As a bit of a part-time metal-things-maker I find it rather odd that my ‘customers’ (often Sue when she nicks something I’ve just made) seem to want the resulting ‘artwork’ to be left to go rusty – must be something they’ve read in one of these trendy gardening magazines! Anyway, whilst it’s been too cold / hot / wet to do much in the garden, I’ve been cutting / bending / forging… Read More

I suppose that it is one of those delightful quirks of the English language where two very diverse meanings accrue to one word.  ‘To Forge’:  1) to make new items by the heating and working of metal.  2) to make a fake items with the intention to confuse or defraud. Well, the Nant y Bedd forge is now up and glowing and there’s nothing fake about what I hope will be coming out… Read More