Finally after weeks of customs delays, parcel force loses and sitting on my hands today the Zoom H4N finally arrived! I’m dying to try it out so brace yourself for some very rough and ready recordings, the actually podcasts will come a little later when i know what i’m doing with it. With the Grand Designs show coming up in

UPDATE 13 April: I’ve had to correct some of my figures the the “Grange” isn’t the same size as house at all (sorry i rushed my calcs) so this has reduced the figures by at least 1/3rd however everything is still impressive and we’ll be pushing ahead. It seems no matter if you’re in England or France then Good Friday

OK to start the week with some good news. As you know we’ve got a lot going on and we’ve been trying to get a podcast sorted for a while without luck. I promise it’s to through the want of trying, we’ve got a couple of Mac, GarageBand and some USB mics but it’s just proving to big and cumbersome

As the house plans are taking shape (see post on latest ideas) we are wanting to again do some solar surveys and this is turning into a bad case of Déjà vu and we aren’t getting anywhere, so here is my plea. What I’m looking for is a solar panel the size of an A4 piece of paper (21cm x

Given the “credit crunch” and the fact that we are going to change our renovation lans there are nothing i like to hear more than “FREE” and that’s exactly what we have here. Now it’s no secret that our plans for the major renovation will have to wait due to the awful €/£ rate so we’ve decided to rip out

Evernote is THE killer application in my iPhone renovation toolbox and i need to take a little time to explain why before you watch the explanation video which will be easier but I have some very practical examples for you. Imagine having at your finger tips all your scanned ideas, photos, notes, articles etc etc all the time no matter

So now the euphoria of finally finding my solar power maths / research has finally died down (I slept on it) , I’m starting to question if it will ever “really” be worth it at all and here is why: With a quoted sun index of 3.5 hours (seems low from our experience) Burgundy using the Sharp panels as quoted

Like many things we will be doing on the renovation it might be easier to explain to you or show you what we are doing rather than just write about it. To that end Dawn & I are going to be giving podcasting a go shortly to bring you bang up to date with everything that happened before we started

Now here is something that all of us should never be without and that’s a French translator. As with all these things no two (or three) programs are created equally so here is a review on the three apps that are currently available as of 13th August

I’m spending far to much time getting hung up on solar energy by the looks of it and 9 times out of 10 I end up being beaten back with the stick about its expense and time to recover investment and all your energy and motivation gets just sucked out of you HOWEVER there comes a little bit of information