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
Driven indoors by a sudden and dramatic thunderstorm, I am now making jam – a satisfying September-during-a-thunderstorm kind of activity. I should mention that jam-making is taking place on a wood-fuelled cooker so no worries about power cuts affecting the process. Plum jam this time. This follows successful batches of blackcurrant and blackcurrant-and-worcesterberry when those crops were harvested several weeks ago. I never make strawberry jam: it seems a crime not to… Read More