"He had a small tower built at the top of the roofing area"

This is a solar chimney or cupola. Look at older photos of buildings and barns, they are the small vented shed on top of the roof.
Many older court houses have a vented dome. As the air inside heats up it rises to the highest point in the room hence the windows over the doors that allowed the heat in the room to vent out and clime to the out side.
with the advent of air conditioning most were closed off and removed to stream line roofs.

Yup!  I know of them, but this one had a gas outlet there too, and it aided the updraught, cool!

Also, along the lines of the rising pipe, the Ausies at some point wanted to fit fans on the inside of massive tubes that rise up out of the desert.  The rising heat would generate the power (its said) to power thousands of homes!




nelly

Its not a plantain seed pod is it??

I saw on telly, a guy that had his place built in India, and as gas was cheap he was able to do what follows.

He had a small tower built at the top of the roofing area, and had a gas ring pointing to the opening.  He would turn on the gas in the morning (well, his man servant did  ) and cause a drawing effect in the building.  The rising heat pulled on the air in the house, and caused the placed gaps in the door bottoms on the ground floor to pull in the cold air from the ground outside.  It was good all day.

Now we, in this day and age could do the same but using the heating effect of the sun on a hot plate in the same tower.


Whad'ya think?


nelly.

The kitchen worktops can be built to a hieght that suits your wife or yourself or both, with differing levels.

I re-did my wife's counter top (hers at the time but mostly mine now  ) to aid her in her cake baking.  It stopped her back ache.

Large walk in shower with a shower head on each side, a place to sit for the ladies to shave legs and a hand held sprayer.

Entrance to be wide enough to enable a wheelchair into and the handles to operate the shower to be low enough as to help in useage from the chair.  (you never know)

It might not be you but a member of the family that moves in.


nelly.

Dunno!  But it looks like some kind of pond weed.  Is the ground very moist there?

Thats all I got.

A wet room with shower and basin so as to be able to wash down oneself or animals before entering the main building.  It also has a small working area that is stainless and used as a place to place meats and veggies.

[do]

Without asking you what is so worrying for you, I cant help much maybe, but I find that when I wake at a time that is out of whack with normal life, I tend to think of it as a 'good reason' for doing so (waking up).

My normal routine would see me eating brekki and watching the tv news before moving on out to work.  So if I do wake, I tend to not try and do these things.  I also try not to force myself to sleep.  I get up, do the do in my bathroom, get dressed etc ready for work.  I stroke our cat after it tries to trip me up on the stairs as I descend and half push and shove it out of my way, and just settle down somewhere to think.  If it is warm outside I sit in the garden with the bunnies and guinepigs and just think.  By the time I do settle-down, I have more or less been able to sort the wheat from the chaff and will know why I am awake.

Being the only thing on my mind, I find that any solutions I come up with are most likely the best.  Knowing I cant do better at sorting them out, I feel more disposed to waiting on the sofa until its time for work.  If I nod off I will allways wake in time as I am less troubled.


Just my two pennith, nelly.

...or rock-wool 

Thats a good idea but I do intend to listen over them after I have been through all of yours & the Queen's, and all of some guy called Jack spearmint or something ( ), and I have about ten of yours and 250 of his, to go  . 

I find that as time passes in the learning curve, we tend to rethink our own goals, so looking over ones notes is always a good thing.  I have the perfect job for this, and I find I can learn all-sorts.

My next is that permaculture lecture you's lot spoke of in one of your shows.  I would have put a link here for others but the Itunes search is rubbish and for some reason I cant locate it.  For me though thats OK as I have the lot on my PC anyway.

I have soooooo much to listen to, its just as well I haven't got much else to do when I am working.  Cool.


nelly.

Hi all.  That show was coooool.  I like coffee, but I am not so happy with rubber tubes!!!

Sometimes one links one thing with another in a way that others might not have got yet.  I was listening to a show that mentioned salvestrols,  here is a link into what they are; http://www.salvestrol.ca/index.asp .  Now the show mentioned (in a nutshell) that these things are what one finds in the produce of foods that are not produced via the intensive farmer method.  Its what all natural plant produce, but the chemicals that are used in intensive farming (using the same field, year on year) will cease the production.

The general concensus on cancer is that it could be a fungus.  Plants eaten in the past were all el' naturel and had Salvestrols by the bucket load.  It was these Salvestrols that enabled the plant to not have a fungus grow on it.  That aint the case today.  They are 'bleached' out (for want of a better name) by all those chemicals.

The putting two and two together bit is self evidant now that one eats all home grown or 'organicly' grown plants that dont use anything else other than the natrual stuffs to help the thing along.

Get me that juicer....and a home garden.


I hope this helps.  nelly.

[Johnny-Max]

There is so much information going on in your programs Johnny-Max that I have a note pad at hand while traveling to cope.  Then do the do at home.


nelly.

Bummer!

Hi y'all.

I am playing catch-up with the shows and have just passed show 87.

On the show it was talked about having a cow an acre and having that bring down your annual subscription to the tax coffers.

I am from England so I am only adding the next bit as advice for an idea that would help in achieving the goal of bringing down the tax amount for the owner.

In the show it was said that if the income from the cattle was the main source of income to the farm, then the tax break kicks in.  Well if this means the farm owner and not the farm, all you have to do is donate the farm to the member of the family that earns the least!

Cows can bring in some cash and that includes meat (well duh!  ) milk, cheese, hides, breading for more cows and for meat bulls.  And if they did not help anyway, one would not have them on the homestead as they must pay for them selves.  Now how much more with this tax break?


Anyway, its only an idea.


lots of love, nelly.

If you go to Utube and search for Edwardian Farm, you can watch a few short clips, but that is not very satisfactory.
Maybe P.B.S will buy it for viewing in the U.S.
Our only other hope is that some U.K. nerd will post it on Utube in its entirety.  Somebody did it with Victorian Farm.
Probable copyright infringement.  Bad Nerd!!!!
June.   

For me, a Brit, I don't think it copywriten.  I paid for it already so to record it and keep it for myself is fine in my opinion.  It is a bit different to record it from a dvd and sell it though.  In the UK the law is that one can copy it to any format (like copying a book to pdf), if it is for your own use.

The thing about the beeb is that it is all powerfull!!  So it can have a site take it down if it wants.  It seems to leave older stuff, like a few years ago, alone, and only worry about the bigger, full length stuff.  You tube is full of it.
The only place therefore to get it in full would be from a pirate site.  But even after saying that, it must be weighed against the time taken to download the shows (actual time spent on the pc) and how much it would be to just buy it!  For example, if you earn 10quid an hour you could say that at the moment you are on the computer, you are worth 10quid an hour.  And if it takes you 30 mins to sit there and do the do, and it takes a short time to download, then your download is worth 20 quid.  If it takes 4 hours to do the do and sort it all out, then your download is worth 40 quid.  You might as well have gone out and earned 10 quid and buy the discs for a tenner.

Some folk don't have the option to buy and for those I don't envy, but say why not?    they have all the time in the world.   


nelly.