As foretold.

This newer replacement stack with Windows 10 does not help me get at new information so easily as XP, I feel distanced and I am not being presented the latest discussions. But then again we know where climate change is going. There is so much that is not reported, my own fascination with diatoms is central to the climate change arguament but no-one mentions them. Invisible to the naked eye, yet are responsible for 70% of the worlds oil and gas resources, (were) as oceanic algae responsible for DMS production, something which is essential for ocean cloud systems … a point which only last week is termed ‘news’ when in fact none of the scientific modelling even included !!! Beggars belief. Has no-one even remembered reading James Lovelock or have looked and learned about algae through a microscope? Diatom demise is the reason for coral reef decline.

Likewise Paris and the IPCC does not even include methane release in its (near worthless) predictions. I’ve a one-sided wager with a friend that we are the wrong side of 3 deg by end of 2026, which means catastrophe and our certain demise and my £1k will be safe, not that its going to be of any use, apart from some oxygen bottles and some synthetic food, all quite futile. trumps approach to climate change needs to be regarded as a War Crime.

Ponder on the problems of an absent or interrupted electrical supply, moving money and people, web, communications, sewage, water etc.

As an antidote to present and forthcoming stress I found this youtube v useful, I don’t have the ability (or patience) to sit quietly and watch in linear fashion, but hopping along I got what I could.

Note at night time its an all enveloping dark, and sleep comes quickly and easily. Contemplation comes easy and a good book would be treasured. Many times at my favourite place I have stood and delighted in the landscape around me as daylight turns to dusk and then to a starry night; quite magical, impressive and always a joy.

How slow and stupid we are …

I read Sam Carana and anything from Guy McPherson; he has a critical enquiring mind, one of the youngest Professors ever appointed in the USA.

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2019/07/most-important-message-ever.html

The slowness, blindness and inaccuracy of the IPCC is astounding. I think I’m correct in saying didn’t include subsea methane release in their most recent ‘modelling’ (highly inaccurate anyway) and ignored melting Arctic ice. Lewis Carrol could have written the script. Levels that are in the short term are the levels that will destroy us, say x130 for methane; theres no medium or long term worth considering, we’ll not be here.

Anyways, 2C will come and go v quickly, better start thinking 3C plus, which of course means human life is teetering and gone. Think about it, feedback loops of enormous world encompassing comprehensivity, nature in the raw so to speak, grain production areas disabled, theres nowhere else it can be done, corporations had better get ‘superfood’ substitutes developed v quickly. Thank God I don’t live in a large centre of population, water distribution / delivery / pumping and sewage disposal will become so critical. And so on and so on …

So many pundits / governments / media voices seem to wish to project a false prediction that somehow or other 2 degrees C of warming will leave us all at a levelling off, when in fact the whole system of nature is now a frightening series of triggers and feedback loops revving up to go faster.

ice loss
jet stream
weather patterns
sea level rise
methane
green growing things ‘go in reverse’ for CO2 conversion
algae / diatom crash the oceans die (witness diatom / bryozoan symbiosis ie coral reef.
grain production
insects (pollinators) gone
aluminium levels
drinking water
power stations are nearly all coastal
etc

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/new-high-temperature-records-set-in-alaska-again-as-heat-wave-is-set-to-relinquish-grip/70008760

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/hottest-weather-of-season-on-tap-for-northeast-as-record-challenging-heat-wave-builds/70008824

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48810170

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/arctic-winter-warmest-record-temperature-global-warming-climate-change-north-pole-melting-ice-caps-a8243631.html

I am baffled …

I had held YaleClimateConnections as worthwhile and a valid source for climate change info, not that I’m much of an avid watcher of these things, I’ve a life to lead and have gleaned full well where we are heading. When will the penny drop that ppl have not the time for presentations of say fifteen minutes, youtube has many other items that need to be scanned as quickly as possible, an attached precis in document form would be mighty handy. But this mornings visit has me baffled. For instance at 02:40 we are told “by 2100” (a misnomer in itself) that I quote loosely … “Permafrost carbon feedback by 2100 ‘is’ smaller, much smaller than human fossil fuel emissions” … EH ! ? “Its about ten percent of that” …. CRIKEY. Sorry, invert your arguament then factor in a move of the decimal point.

I find this misinformation and crap hard to stomach. Methinks there is skewed thinking, Orwellian newspeak in action; its called trump, the EPA putting the screws on. Maybe shrouded as a general balm to quell any mass hysteria? IPCC is not much better, its most recent foray into ‘forecasting’ I think I’m right in saying deliberately did not include material contributed by Prof Peter Wadhams the worlds expert on Arctic ice and forgot to factor in Arctic methane !!!

Earlier the first nugget of wisdom in this pointless misinformation from Yale is of the plant life re-colonising and will transform some areas of thawing permafrost / methane release to a nett uptake ie 00:50 and onto 01:00 ! Blimey … now that is real optimism gone crazy. Sorry but even a child would say a thin layer of green encroachment is far outnumbered by the dirty soup of thawing permafrost that in itself provides physical depth and bulk, coupled with and absence of oxygen to generate the dreaded methane that is 80-120 times he potency of the already dreaded CO2. Short term potency is all we need consider, human life will not be here to see it extend to the medium term. Remember too that with increasing CO2 and methane green growing things actually back down and go into reverse in their much needed conversion. Already diatom / algal populations and conversion are going into reverse, also diatom / bryozoan symbiosis on coral reef needs explaining clearly, not just the glib ‘bleaching’. Yesterday even, reading of the tiny numbers of remaining Right Whale and the loss of their principal food no mention is made that it is the loss of lower food chain, again diatoms/ algae that will probably be at the root of this problem.

Maybe I should have been a scientist, I hope I could get at the truth better than this.

Theres nothing in this presentation / vid that i can let go unchallenged, its back to back misinformation and nonsense, its endless and what is most alarming is that its issued June 2019!

“The abrupt thaw could represent about a half of the total permafrost climate feedback” at 02:50 … in my opinion try 1,000 % plus.

“If we can slow down human carbon emissions” … no its all set in motion, nice optimism, but interconnected feedback loops and the workings of nature are so very stacked against us ie 03:25

“Hit our economy” …. yes indeed!

This is like something made by twelve year olds.

postscript … note the term ‘restricted grammar and limited vocabulary’ … reminds one of the Idiot in Chief presently occupying (sometimes) the Oval Office.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

One could say quite fairly that in this fag paper thin layer that we inhabit viewing the world as a childs football (ie 0.001in on an eight inch sphere) … drilling and capturing mostly the oil and gas from ancient diatoms that has upset the equilibrium which first allowed humankind to thrive and therefore latterly upset the amazing and horrifying multiplicity of feedback loops have now been forced to realign to the newly introduced contaminants and effluent that now trigger the chemical formula and physical laws that are quite unstoppable.

trumps refusal and crowbar silencing (as with YaleClimateConnections above) are far worse than any war crime and he should be tried as such. Whilst we’ve got people in the dock maybe Carl Benz, Rudolf Diesel and Henry Ford are to be answerable. Strange but true.

Lines in the sky …

UK chemtrail diary 17th June 2019. Its been quiet for a month, some days nothing (as per last May) some days just little bits as per last year, now its chemtrail gone mad. Concensus now is that they are drones, no need for a hand on the wheel when remote and pre-programmed can serve just as well, I’m guessing and possibly correct. Also, NASA worldview helps but is not conclusive. Note pic middle right below, how can anyone refute ‘the lines in the sky’ are in any form legitimate???

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. 08:12 BST

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. 09:03 BST

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. An aluminized sky ie not a natural sky. 09:05 BST

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. 14:27 BST … an aluminized sky.

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. 14:27 BST … a VERY ALTERED / ALUMINIZED SKY.

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. 14:28 BST – A VERY ALUMINIZED / ARTIFICIAL SKY.

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. A very aluminized / man-made sky.

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. A very man-made phoney sky ie aluminized.

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. A very man-made phoney sky ie aluminized. 14:50 BST

I’m so very glad I record what I see above from here in north east England, I would be an utter fool to let this go unrecorded. But so few if anyone takes any effort to document this obscenity, taysidechemtrails and scottishchemtrails are other lonely voices, likewise youtube ie a few clips then often the author doesn’t bother anymore. Its mostly hopeless pointing this out to anyone that cannot take the time to ‘consider’, luckily my new g/f has taken little time to quite rightly realise that these things, lines in the sky ie chemtrail geoengineering are cause for concern.

Note below is later in the day, less distinct lines and now mostly a general spread or haze of what was deposited earlier.

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. 14:50 hrs BST

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. 14:51 hrs BST

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. 14:51 hrs BST … note an aluminized / man-made sky.

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. 15:10 hrs BST

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. 17:21 hrs BST … high alt aluminized skyscape.

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. 19:16 BST, large upper hazy bit is an aluminized sky ie the effect of previous chemtrail either here or drifting in.

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. ninety percent of this sky is an aluminized man-made vista … look at the detail.

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. High alt aluminized ‘corridor’. 19:17 hrs BST.

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. 19:33 hrs BST – note hazing from an already aluminized sky.

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. Note hazing from an already aluminized sky. 20:35 BST

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. Note hazing from an already aluminized sky. 20:36 BST

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. Note hazing from an already aluminized sky. 20:38 BST

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. Note hazing from an already aluminized sky. 20:29 BST

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. Note hazing from an already aluminized sky. 20:46 BST

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. Note hazing from an already aluminized sky. 20:47 BST

And the final batch below, of pics of chemtrail geoengineering north east England all for one day in June Monday 17th. Not intermittent observation as like with other people I have things to do, a life to lead.

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. Note hazing from an already aluminized sky.

This will not disappear, it will widen out, forming a much wider haze and aluminium content in the skies above.

17th June 2019 chemtrail lines in the sky / geoengineering, north east England. Note hazing from an already aluminized sky.

The next part of my covering this single day of UK chemtrail activity is to look at NASA worldview and look around Europe to find any hints as to chemtrails and geoengineering.

Heres a link for the 17th June 2019 worldview and I’d guess nearly all of the SW – NE trending ‘cloud’ is chemtrail. https://go.nasa.gov/2MXPP0P

A day later it also looks suspicious ie chemtrail geoengineering; a very man-made sky and artificial cloud and weather system over the North Sea ie https://go.nasa.gov/2KqZpXO

North Sea NASA worldview sat pic of v definite chemtrail geoengineering 18th June 2019 ... https://go.nasa.gov/2MYVcwz — North Sea NASA worldview sat pic of v definite chemtrail geoengineering 18th June 2019 … https://go.nasa.gov/2MYVcwz

For instance for the day previous to the 17th again the North Sea and Firth of Forth got hammered with man-made cloud and weather manipulation. ie https://go.nasa.gov/2N01vjw

To sum up June 17th 2019 heres my DQA reporting system … DQA 7; 7; 7; AS (altered sky).

Hint: roam around Europe and click to change the daysetting. Areas that get hammered with geo-engineering are Irish Sea, North Sea, sea area south of Ireland, sea area west of ireland, northern France, Biscay, sea area west of Portugal, central Med, Corsica, Sardinia, Cyprus, Black Sea. Later in the year i reckon look to northern France to Bremen, Denmark. See all my many previous posts to see a tie-in with youtubers that all adds to the convincability of my arguament that the lines in the sky … ‘amount to something’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7HDyNFXx0s

I fear for and of Greenland …

Any google search for ‘Greenland ice melt latest’ brings nothing but a picture of accelerated melting, which we knew fine well would happen and the much bandied around ‘by year 2100’ was just a load of baloney.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/14/us/greenland-sudden-ice-melt-wxc/index.html

https://www.sciencealert.com/greenland-was-40-degrees-hotter-than-normal-this-week-and-things-are-getting-intense

https://scied.ucar.edu/longcontent/greenlands-ice-melting-faster

climate change …

Youtubes worth listening to re climate change …

I have a wager, a one sided wager of £1,000 GBP, the other man loses nothing regardless, that I will donate to my friend quite happily if I am wrong on this … that by the end of 2026 my gut feeling is that we will have most certainly have overshot 2 deg C and it will be 3 deg C plus. I cannot see how otherwise, the interconnectedness of feedback loops, methane etc etc

Insect decline, moths, butterflies …

Time to see what new material we can find on this …

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/17/where-have-insects-gone-climate-change-population-decline

An old article, I’d say it is meantime that the loss has been so apparent … https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/01/british-moths-calamitous-decline

Its peculier how the obvious decline of moths these last five years is so little reported.

Where have all the insects gone?

Australia … http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/faqs/gone.html

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-insect-populations-decline-scientists-are-trying-to-understand-why/

1,005 comments … https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/magazine/insect-apocalypse.html

For the UK an old book E B Ford ‘Moths’ in the Collins New Naturalist Series is a good all round starter. https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Moths.html?id=mVsxvgAACAAJ&source=kp_cover&redir_esc=y

Roy Pitman ‘A Naturalist at Home’

Newman ‘Looking at Butterflies’

Quick I/D guide … Collins ‘Complete British Wildlife’… good for moths and butterflies.

Anything Richard South on moths, the old Warne series but still useful.

Theres lots, thank goodness for ebay.

Remember, our liveable space on the planet (half a mile up and half a mile down) is represented by a one thousandth of an inch ie 0.001″ cigarette paper placed on a childs eight inch dia football. A cigarette paper is one quarter of the thickness of copier paper ie at 0.004 inch. We have so little space, therefore if we mess with its chemistry, its temperatures and a myriad of multi-webbed feedback loops then we are in trouble; or a single species such as ourselves takes too big a bite of burning resources and upsetting natural systems alien to nature, then as again, we are in trouble.

Climate change, Alaska defrosts.

Quite a hard hitting article, lots going on re ice loss, ecosystem collapse.

https://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/9114062-pace-bering-sea-changes-startles-scientists.html#.9113652-stage-mm2s1-1

Chemtrail diary 1st April 2019.

We are now onto BST here in England, my dog doesn’t realise its a sixty minutes disjoint in his demanding ‘hund fodder’, but it still feels bloomin’ early. He’s old and he ‘wants’ all the time, always was a difficult dog, its tiring. Some days better than others, we have our routines, cooking etc which helps compartmentalise his ‘wanting’ and also the better mornings are when I have a near continuous dialogue with him, the words seem to feed him.

0700 BST (tho my mind is keen to tell me its 0600GMT)… significant chemtrail above, strong and hazing, say 6-8off visible at any point. Also a distinct ‘turn-on’ of chemtrail visible in a flight as pictured below. Its a high pressure (HP) day so odds are high its will be ‘a chemtrail biggie today’, last big chemtrail day was a Saturday 23rd March just over a week ago ie https://climate-change-briefing.com/2019/03/23/three-dozen-by-0900/

I can hear them flying above, but the chemtrail bods are those much higher, near silent. With global warming its going to be near impossible to get both individuals and corporations to throttle back on air travel. Like SUVs and a beef diet it will take some ‘cracking’. My latest crackdown/improvement here at the hacienda is to wash by hand and drip dry, works fine!

In my opinion the chemtrail people have now realised how to stop short of the dreadful ‘aluminized churn’ witnessed here three or four mornings last year, was quite obscene, lower brown reaction clouds, fast churn etc. Realise too it can be random, or corridor, or nothing visible in your own cone of view but laid say corridor fashion close to or over the horizon. West coast chemtrail USA to drift mid western has been going on for many years we read from many sources. Look at youtube and be sure to include a place name in the search box.

Okay its another thirty minutes, I’d better lok out, I’ll be missing the action …

… its potent chemtrail up there today ….. you f###### b#####ds.

07:45 BST … theres a horrible bank of very dark cloud coming in from the west, I can only assume laid over to the west yesterday, yes nasa worldview indicated as such over the Irish Sea and shipping areas Fastnet and Shannon. Already the open sky is mostly hazed and significantly subdued fom its earlier bright blue, I’d say 50% lost / obscured of this bright HP day. To what extent is this hindering agricultural production? Realise that Monsanto worldwide have patents that include their GM crops being specifically resistant to free-borne aluminium. Free-borne / unattached aluminium is extremely rare (non-existant?) in nature. Last year the only clear sky was a fortnight before the Royal Wedding. A sunlight recorder read in conjunction with data ten and twenty years ago would be a useful move. Also I read, ozone is destroyed by geo-engineering ie chemtrails.

pics and worldview to follow as the day progresses …

0800 BST north east England, thats it! … sun soon to be obscured, very dense dark what i assume to be aluminized cloud drifting over to the east coast. I’m glad I witnessed this, at a guess twenty significant chemtrails now obscured and this morning quite potent ie a lot of ‘material’. An hour later i can hear high alt aircraft which possibly are still laying chemtrail.

0940 BST and the grey canopy is thinning / moving out over the north Sea. looking at weather sat i will be able to determine how many hours for Shannon / Fastnet chemtrail to reach us. So lets look at the pics up till the arrival of the obscuring bank of grey cloud 0800 …

chemtrails UK geoengineering 1st april 2019 07:09 BST note at left the sharp newer chemtrail starts to spray chemtrail having previously left nothing.

chemtrails UK geoengineering 1st April 2019 07:16 BST note bank of cloud (aluminized) windborne from the west.

chemtrails UK geoengineering 1st April 2019 07:46 BST note the extent of the spreading haze, these are strong chemtrails.

chemtrails UK geoengineering 1st April 2019 07:49 BST note the extent of the spreading haze, these are strong chemtrails.

chemtrails UK geoengineering 1st April 2019 08:06 BST note the extent of the spreading haze, now we have the dark grey bank of aluminized cloued arriving from the west.

chemtrails UK geoengineering 1st April 2019 08:06 BST note the extent of the spreading haze, now we have the dark grey bank of aluminized cloued arriving from the west. note also many chemtrails out to sea, to the east.

chemtrails UK geoengineering 1st April 2019 08:06 BST note the extent of the spreading haze, now we have the dark grey bank of aluminized cloud arriving from the west. note also many chemtrails out to sea, to the east.

chemtrails UK geoengineering 1st April 2019 08:08 BST note the extent of the spreading haze, now we have the dark grey bank of aluminized cloud arriving from the west. note also many chemtrails out to sea, to the east. Theres lots in there, look closely.

11am BST Monday, camera now cleared for the remains of the day, at any time at least ten chemtrails visible in the sky above, limited cone of view say twenty mile diameter max because of the semi-urban ie built landscape around me.

noon / one o’clock … sky now back to oppressive grey, immobile too, not moving anywhere; same all afternoon and hence i can hear aircraft but cannot see the chemtrail result good or bad. Here below remaining photographs from later morning, its tricky to capture a distinct image of widening hazing chemtrail.

uk chemtrail geoengineering 1st April 2019 12:27 BST a lot of chemtrail.

uk chemtrail geoengineering 1st April 2019 10:33 BST a lot of chemtrail this morning. Afternoon totally overcast.

uk chemtrail geoengineering 1st April 2019 10:35 BST a lot of chemtrail this morning. Afternoon totally overcast.

uk chemtrail geoengineering 1st April 2019 11:25 BST a lot of chemtrail this morning. Afternoon totally overcast.

uk chemtrail geoengineering 1st April 2019 12:24 BST a lot of chemtrail this morning. Afternoon totally overcast.

uk chemtrail geoengineering 1st April 2019 10:35 BST a lot of chemtrail this morning. Afternoon totally overcast.

uk chemtrail geoengineering 1st April 2019 11:47 BST a lot of chemtrail this morning. Afternoon totally overcast.

uk chemtrail geoengineering 1st April 2019 11:48 BST a lot of chemtrail this morning, note how it hazes drifts and pollutes the sky. Afternoon totally overcast.

A day later Tuesday we hear on bbc r4 morning news of increased charges for polluting vehicles entering London (okay i understand) the Mayor so determined to clean up the air; on my last visit eighteen years ago i thought it cleaner anyway, much cleaner than twenty years previous in 1980. A point he made is that they have now determined children are only developing smaller sized lungs, smaller lung capacity … surely the problem there is screen time !! … no-one plays outside, no-one hops and skips, no-one chases a ball. THAT IS the problem. The little mites are ferried to and fro in mummys SUV. My BS meter is starting to twitch …

Kids are unable to apply themselves, cannot complete a task, have poor hand eye co-ordination with any implement or tool, have no interest or realisation of the value of books, their content. I assume their handwriting and sketching skills must be several years behind.

Point is, what about all the crap up in the sky, the chemtrails? That is certainly one big polluter they will NOT be talking about ….

Lets try and find a few chemtrail youtubes for London to round off this one day post. remember to add a location or city to the search box, general terms only yield v limited results.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HzI7DfHZdc

Northern Canada: +22C when it should be zero.

Yikes, ultra creepy temp increase … anything that says by 2100 Greenland Ice Massif will be gone … more like 2026 I’d say. This end of 2026 point in time is when i would think we are somewhere at a minimum of 3 to 4C global warming, you can wave goodbye to anything like a piddling 2C prediction … quite laughable sticking to 2C considering the interconnectedness of natures climate systems and feedback loops. If I’m not correct then I will donate £1k GBP to charities, no quibble. Remember, the accelerating nature of ice melt is working against us, any child knows wake up next morning and it can often be an exasperating sight to see all the ice and snow mostly gone overnight as often happens here in northern England. Realise too that with increased ice-melt the freshwater adds to increasing humidity and rainfall. Therefore no albedo effect ie the reflective nature of a white landscape is lost and ad infinitum heat absorbancy spirals way beyond most publicly available predictions. Permafrost becomes mush, methane tumbles upwards from microbial, geological and thawing hydrate; better sort some space for all the oxygen cylinders we will need.

And then what ?

Heres a pic of what its like up there in NWT … https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/mackenzie-valley-winter-road-closed-1.5064202

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/truck-plunges-deline-ice-road-1.3477869

Postscript; thinking of ice loss, not even the term logarithmic in relationship to volume decay is applicable when the temperature is rapidly increasing as in the North West Territories cited above, any ‘steady state’ conformity to plotting arithmetic curves or laws of decay goes out the window or into the newly formed lake. Again, thinking of childhood observation of a quick thaw here in temperate England, all the melt seemed to merely sink into the earth itself which in a permafrost situation up north is the last thing we need. So therefore in my mind most ‘predictions’ are invalid, unreal because thawing ice behaves in its own unique way. Its back to what I fear by 2026.

At least i’m doing ‘something’ even if its quite by chance or the new circumstances of my wife passing away three years ago which has enabled me to do things differently, ie much reduced mileage in the car as I’m happier being nearer to home (I’m the ideal profile for an electric vehicle) … washing machine bust and won’t be replaced, plastic bucket and a clothes line do all i want as theres no real dirt or grime to remove. Keeping the computer switched off most hours also helps in several ways, use books more, increase pleasure in sketching, copying, taking notes, memorise things … we don’t always need to be up on the latest news online, theres much human knowledge that is as good now as it was forty or a hundred years ago. I’ve no tv through choice and this suits me, bbc r3 and 4 provide sufficient, no mobile either and I’ve uninstalled the wireless remote heating thermostat. The only modern luxury I wish to retain is my central heating system and the pleasure of a hot bath !

Spinning and tumbling clothes dry here in England can be severely cut back and perhaps eliminated in many households, the washing line does all these things; particularly as these last few years we seldom have the rainfall here in NE England that we used to have.