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« on: March 21, 2006, 20:24:39 »
Scrapheap favourite Lieutenant-Colonel Dick Strawbridge (aka; 'Colonel Dick') had turned his Devonshire home partially over to renewable/recycled energy

This does not mean Dick & his family are living in a tree-house & drinking pond water, they're just careful about energy conservation, etc....

he's presenting a forthcoming series on BBC 2
'It's Not Easy being Green'

Readers of 'The Daily Mail'[/i] may have seen the article on Dick in last Saturdays TV supplement.

By The Way; I love the moustache cursar on the site :lol:  :lol:
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« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2006, 22:08:38 »
Doesn't he trundle round in an old ex-MOD series 3 on sky, making world war 2 tricks and devices?

If it works and saves money, why not.
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« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2006, 11:54:06 »
I'd love to do that, but I think the neighbours would object to me putting Solar panels on the roof and having a 30 ft windmill in the back garden - until the power cuts expected in 2012 arrive, and they want to use my kettle/watch my telly.  How can you be encouraged to go green when you get refused planning permission when you try!!!
Talk about the powers that be sending mixed messages!

BTW, half expected Dick Strawbridge to be a bit green, think he has an assortment of small hedgerow creatures nesting in his mustachios!
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« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2006, 12:01:48 »
Quote from: "The Ant Hill Mob"
BTW, half expected Dick Strawbridge to be a bit green, think he has an assortment of small hedgerow creatures nesting in his mustachios!


All his clothes were, before he resigned his commission :lol:  :lol:
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« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2006, 12:28:01 »
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All his clothes were, before he resigned his commission :lol:  :lol:


BTM, That's terrible :D
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« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2006, 15:39:57 »
Just watched last nights episode earlier.

Could've done with that rotivator for his moustache :lol:

It''ll be a seriously nice house when it's finished though
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« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2006, 10:32:25 »
Bio-diesel/recycled chip-fat production in a forthcoming episode so I understand
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« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2006, 11:16:10 »
Episode 2 details

They seem to be enthused over on 'LR net' about it
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« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2006, 19:41:40 »
I really liked that program. I was hoping theyd have a webpage with further information on though, but i cant find anything.

I'm trying to save money at the moment, and ive been plotting how to flush my bog using waste water pumped up to it, and that guy on it had done the same thing! I bet his kit was more complicated than an old dustbin and a caravan water pump though  :lol: (not yet tested!)

I found Dicks email address and was thinking about emailing him!
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« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2006, 20:23:12 »
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I really liked that program. I was hoping theyd have a webpage with further information on though, but i cant find anything.

In the article in the 'Daily Mail' previewing the (initial) programme, it was stated that the website was only a recent one, & would be added to as time progressed

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I found Dicks email address and was thinking about emailing him!


Go for it, but don't forget to salute:lol:

(ask him if the 'Brothers In Arms' are returning to the Scrapheap, & let us all know)
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« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2006, 23:38:51 »
Quote from: "Bush Tucker Man"

Go for it, but don't forget to salute:lol:

(ask him if the 'Brothers In Arms' are returning to the Scrapheap, & let us all know)


I've sent an email. Lets see if he actually answers! ;)

I'll ask him about scrapheap if he answers my first questions!
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« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2006, 11:51:03 »
Just a reminder.

Part 2 tonight :wink:
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« Reply #12 on: April 05, 2006, 10:46:01 »
i want to know what he is going to do about his car, surely the audi will be in for the chop?!

I'm thinking a chip oil powered landy....Hopefully it will be destinctive 'cos he lives about 5 mins from me! Hopefully i will be able to spot him driving about  :D
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« Reply #13 on: April 05, 2006, 20:50:07 »
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i want to know what he is going to do about his car, surely the audi will be in for the chop?!
He said in the first episode that it is 'on the way out'

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I'm thinking a chip oil powered landy....Hopefully it will be destinctive

Being an ex-Scrapheap Challenge champion, I'm sure he'll have it all figured out

Quote from: "nomis"
'cos he lives about 5 mins from me! Hopefully i will be able to spot him driving about  :D

How is the house looking now?
As presumably the programme was done last year??

It must be fairly (national) common knowledge where they live as  they showed the estate agents brochure in the first episode.

'New House Farm'
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« Reply #14 on: April 10, 2006, 22:04:11 »
Part 3 tomorrow evening.
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« Reply #15 on: April 11, 2006, 19:46:21 »
wooo  :D

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Tom

I do apologise for the delay in replying we have has an awesome response to the series and are ploughing our way through emails!  Glad you enjoyed the programme there is still a lot more to come!  We all had a ball but there was an awful lot of hard work.  I reckon Tom and Barbara have a lot to answer for!

The chap who conducted the green audit was Donnachadh McCarthy - his book is 'Saving the planet without costing the earth' can be bought via his website http://www.3acorns.co.uk but it doesn't cover what he has done to his house. The BBC didn't manage to pull together a website for the series so , in addition to the book (due out 13 April),  we are building our own www.itsnoteasybeinggreen.org and some of it is available now.  We have included some details not covered in the series and some links to the people we bought from so you may find it useful.  Most of the ideas we try in Cornwall can be applied to any house in the country

Hope you find it useful

Thanks very much for getting in touch.  All the very best

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« Reply #16 on: April 11, 2006, 21:22:34 »
Did you here his closing comment to tonights episode?

"Next week we exchange our gas guzzler for this little beauty"

the gas guzzler was his Audi the little beauty was a defender   :D
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« Reply #17 on: April 11, 2006, 21:29:00 »
Quote from: "tomarse"
wooo  :D


Presumably a standard reply due to the positive response, as there's no word about Scrapheap' :wink:  

And mentioning that  august programme, was't it funny how a neighbour just happened to have a step-up gearbox in the garden? :lol:

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Did you here his closing comment to tonights episode?

"Next week we exchange our gas guzzler for this little beauty"

the gas guzzler was his Audi the little beauty was a defender

Well, at least he'll be at home in it :lol:
And if he raids all the Fish (& do-nut) shops simply around the St Austell area, he ought to be able to run it & have fuel to spare
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« Reply #18 on: April 17, 2006, 20:46:21 »
Don't forget!
Tuesday 18th.
BBC 2 @ 20:30

Dick px's his Audi for a 90, & converts it to run on recycled Vegetable Oil.

I want to read lots of reviews after the show :wink:

By The way, did you all know that Dick has a MBE?


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« Reply #19 on: April 18, 2006, 15:08:11 »
Dick & the 'Brothers In Arms' were on Channel 4 at 05:30-ish this morning.
They repeated a Scrapheap Challenge final between the 'Brothers' & the 'Meglomaniacs' (Nosher & crew)

It was the drag-racing one, where Dick does it in reverse after blowing the transmission :lol:
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« Reply #20 on: April 24, 2006, 11:19:54 »
Tomorrows episode isn't on :x

Instead there's some blokes hitting their balls with sticks

What priorities do the Beeb have these days??
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« Reply #21 on: May 02, 2006, 16:56:56 »
Tonights episode.
Dick turns off the mains water supply & starts pumping from his own spring
Wind turbines as well


BBC2
20:30 -21:00
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« Reply #22 on: May 02, 2006, 21:08:24 »
Good fun, with the wind turbine being installed & main water being turned off

Their on site spring supplying all water

Also a good choice of incidental music, someone's a Steve Earle fan :D
'Hillbilly Highway'
'Think It Over'
'My Old Friend The Blues'

(all from the debut album 'Guitar Town')
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« Reply #23 on: May 02, 2006, 21:27:21 »
One of the songs that was on in the background sounded just like an instrumental/guitar version of a cure song. I'm going to have to find some steve earle to compare.

Do you need planning permission for a wind turbine? :)
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« Reply #24 on: May 03, 2006, 10:43:08 »
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One of the songs that was on in the background sounded just like an instrumental/guitar version of a cure song. I'm going to have to find some steve earle to compare.
Not too sure about earlier in the programme, but the Steve Earle bits were in the last few minutes (from heaping logs)

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Do you need planning permission for a wind turbine? :)

Not too sure, it may be dependant on the usual varients;
Height?
Permanant/temporary structure?
Noise?
Appropriate to the locality? (ie; conservation area?)
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« Reply #25 on: May 09, 2006, 20:01:31 »
Sausage making time tonight :evil:

Dick seems very eager, not too sure about Bridget :?


BBC 2
20:30-21:00
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« Reply #26 on: May 09, 2006, 21:01:39 »
I'll bet the Beeb gets a few complaints about poor little Piggys fate, as well planned & efficient as it was.


I still envy their life-style
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« Reply #27 on: May 09, 2006, 21:31:00 »
Wasn't the lady next door wonderful, she couldn't bring her self to eat the pigs she had been feeding over the fence, but she had a bit of crackling, just a little bit of course.  She said 'I couldn't have eaten them if I lived here'.  How mad is that, I live next door so I can eat a little bit!

They're all mad and I love em.

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« Reply #28 on: May 10, 2006, 07:17:35 »
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They're all mad and I love em
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I agree, wouldn't it be great to have them as neighbours :D

I've seen the book in WH Smiths, just waiting to see if a DVD is released.

Now, I've got Dan Cruickshanks new show to watch later(about Modernism), that was on after Dick & family (watched 'Traffic Cops')
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« Reply #29 on: May 17, 2006, 15:45:16 »
Sadly it was the last episode last night.
Composting toilets & bigger wind-turbines

Oh, & new Piglets to fatten up
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