Hanwell to Brentford.

Fin.

Hanwell

I’d not been to Hanwell before, mainly due to the fact there are 10 lock in a very short stretch, but also because I’d heard that the canal was full of rubbish and it was not worth it unless you were going out on the Thames,
Quite the opposite is true, it’s a fantastic stretch, and now one of my favourite bits of London's waterways.

Found this..

..on a hard drive I was clearing, it’s what faced me on day 2 of boat ownership.

Wildlife on the Lee

New Blog!

http://freeloader-steve.blogspot.com/

Here’s a link to my new blog, this is simply simply to document my attempts at harnessing the power of the sun, and to not crowd this one with technical babble about amp hours and voltage drop.

Me, green?

I’ve never thought of myself as green, you know, environmentally, not the colour. But I've realised that I actually I am rather green, all of my everyday electricity is supplied by the sun, I say everyday as I have a generator and need that to run the washing machine (with eco friendly detergent!), I travel to work on a 125cc scooter. I don’t waste water, I use 250 litres a week including the washing machine, I recycle where possible and half of my heating is provided by gathering waste wood. I use about 25 litres of petrol a week and about 15 litres of diesel.

Just knowing these figures seems odd to me, but now that I do I really want to improve on them and have the lowest impact lifestyle I can, whilst this is not possible for most people, I think I could learn and share a lot and am thinking of doing a separate blog on the eco living thing, what do you think?

While you are thinking, here’s some pics

Hello 2011