The Cottage Smallholder

Danny said:

Great thread, Joanna. Brilliant idea and thank you (a gentile salute I hope )

I am so delighted that you achieved a distinction. Good stuff. But I feel the need to question "we finally have our woodburning stove nearly installed." Nearly installed? Sounds like "a little bit pregnant" to me

While I am it, what does Human Ecology encompass? That is a genuine question, not a banter wind-up comment.

Mutley – good stuff achieved today. Sounds like you found free raw material that you can turn around for a profit. A great result/

In my case I feel upbeat because i have a new boss. The previous guy was a genius but he could not delegate. It made me feel like a loose and useless appendage / tool. Very demoralising. The new guy appears to know nothing about my area of speciality, so that enables me to shine a little. At least in these early days.

Thanks for the salutes and congratulations.

In terms of pregnancy I guess we could say I am in labour as far as the stove is concerned, we are past the point of no return. If the worse comes to the worse, Ian can seal it up and it will be finished – not sure why they didn't do it yesterday, unless they were that cold on the roof they forgot.

Human Ecology looks at how the environment, society and the economy interact. The assignment I did was on foosheds and looked at the where our food comes from (think I will start another thread on that, it is an interesting topic), a bit like watershed in geography which looks at the area of land which gathers water for a particular river. This is the course I am studying http://www.lews.uhi.ac.uk/courses/sections/humanit…..stgradmsrd. I am waiting for one more assignment for Policy Framework Analysis, fortunately the unit was more interesting than it sounds.

Well done Mutley, always satisfying to get something for free and make it work, how are you going to use the gas fire in your wood burner? Sounds interesting.

Congratulations on your new job Danny. I know exactly what you mean about those who crave appreciatation, they are indeed hard work. I like to feel appreciated too but I don't like it when it is overboard.

I came across some articles on permaculture but haven't really processed it yet. The next unit I am doing is Biodiversity Management so I am guessing I am more likely to see more on permaculture then.

Whoops! Meant to just edit the first post and ended up posting another one

Toffeeapple, we sure needed the woodburning stove – it got down to -29C according to our car thermometer this morning. A neighbour of ours needed a lift to a nearby town and we needed to go anyway so volunteered to take her and thought we weren't going to make it at all as the car was very unhappy about being woken up at that temperature.Maybe you could send some soup our way?

Thanks Kate and glad your feeling better and getting out now, not much fun being stuck indoors.

Thanks Rae Mond glad the move went okay. I know what it is like trying to squeeze stuff in, we have moved to the smallest home ever and we still need to find a better way to organise our stuff, nearly two years later.

Hmmm cheesy scones – now there's an idea, would be nice for a light evening meal I think.