I'm so green that...

[tom.harrigan]

I'm so green that I mixed the LIMEcrete slab in my cellar by hand and with rainwater collected in my 3 water butts. Not only that, I used beeswax candles to light the cellar while I worked.

Then I made a cast-in-situ limecrete worktop around my recycled kitchen sink, mixed by hand using rainwater.

All my lime rendering is mixed with rainwater, though I did use a cement (sorry about the use of the "c" word) mixer. But, before you chastise me for using a 20% nuclear powered mixing device, I must point out that all my light fittings are low energy.

Also, my cooker and my central heating run on wood.

I also occasionally fill my pickup truck with biodiesel.

I am greener than you!

T :-)

[tom.harrigan]

Do you think they'll take my old pickup in exchange for a deposit for a shiny new car?

T

[Graeme]

In message , Stephen Howard writes

You are very welcome to nip round the corner to my PO and pay your car tax. Anyone that prefers the PO to online renewals must be a good bloke :-)

[Stephen Howard]

Why bother, when the chap down the road may soon be able to chop in his perfectly serviceable car ( to be crushed ) at half the mileage its capable of for a shiny new one courtesy of a fat handout from the government. He can then drive the extra miles to a post office that's actually open at a time that meets his needs rather than nip round the corner to the local one to pay his car tax.

Regards,

[Stephen Howard]

Undoubtedly - though they might force you to buy a car that has half the life expectancy of your old pickup, and costs more to build and dispose of.

Regards,

[mark]

I'm so green, I think low energy light bulbs will benefit the planet.

mark

[mark]

Biodiesel...that'll be the stuff that doesn't produce CO2? mark

[Andy Champ]

No, that'll be the stuff that's grown on land that used to be rainforest.

Mostly it's palm oil.

Or it's grown on good framing land, because it's made from rape or soya, so it's helping the world food shortage...

Andy

[tom.harrigan]

That's pretty green, but I think that too, so I'm still greener than you...

T :-)

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Andy Champ saying something like:

Mitred corners on the fields?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Certainly sounds like it, yes.;-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

No rounded. Cant get the tractors round.

Did you know you get almost three times the diesel you use to grow and harvest it off a field of rape?

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember The Natural Philosopher saying something like:

Did you know it's a waste of time and effort? All the arable land in the UK turned over to biodiesel production would meet approx 10% of the country's needs.

[Tim Lamb]

In message , Graeme writes

Huh! Try getting a licence disc for an agricultural tractor on line. Nothing to pay so it ought to be easy. System goes off to check the MOT and returns with *data base not updated* or some such twaddle. No MOT is required either!

The telephone system works OK but it is an 08700 number and they do not tell you how much they are charging. Grrr.

regards

[Graeme]

In message , Tim Lamb writes

Good! The more the online system fails, the more people will use POs :-)

Living and working in a rural area, I'm extremely familiar with discs for tractors.

[Owain]

But if you drill an oil well you can get thousands of times the diesel you use to build the drilling rig.

Owain

[Tim S]

[e-mail] coughed up some electrons that declared:

I dug a tunnel all the way to Cornwall and mined my own uranium. After I mixed that with the fluorescent coating scraped with my teeth from broken CFLs. I worked today in my roof space by the faint white glow.

Tip - radioactive pellets in your kneedpads keep your knees warm.

:)

[The Natural Philosopher]

As much as that?

[The Medway Handyman]

But did you hand knit your wholewheat dungarees?

[Fredxx]

Have you recently been irradiated with gamma rays and become the incredible sulk?