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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: Bush Tucker Man on March 21, 2006, 20:24:39
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Scrapheap favourite Lieutenant-Colonel Dick Strawbridge (aka; 'Colonel Dick' (http://www.dickstrawbridge.com/main.php)) 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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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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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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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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All his clothes were, before he resigned his commission :lol: :lol:
BTM, That's terrible :D
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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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Bio-diesel/recycled chip-fat production in a forthcoming episode so I understand
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Episode 2 details (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/listings/programmes.shtml?day=tuesday&service_id=4224&filename=20060404/20060404_2030_4224_51772_30)
They seem to be enthused over on 'LR net' about it
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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.
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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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
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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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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Just a reminder.
Part 2 tonight :wink:
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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?!
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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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'
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
'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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Part 3 tomorrow evening.
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wooo :D
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
Dick
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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 :D
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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:
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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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?
Edited to alter time
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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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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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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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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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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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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)
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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Sausage making time tonight :evil:
Dick seems very eager, not too sure about Bridget :?
BBC 2
20:30-21:00
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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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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.
Graham
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They're all mad and I love em
Graham
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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Sadly it was the last episode last night.
Composting toilets & bigger wind-turbines
Oh, & new Piglets to fatten up
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Another post from the past :oops:
But worthwhile
'Being Green' is being repeated by 'Auntie Beeb' on Monday evenngs, starting tomorrow
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Cheers BTM.
I missed out on that program when it was first on as I was Down Under.
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Cheers BTM.
I missed out on that program when it was first on as I was Down Under.
Make sure you see it this time, some of the inventions & solutions are great :wink:
Monday @ 19:30- 20:00, BBC 2 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/listings/programme.shtml?day=monday&service_id=4224&FILENAME=20061113/20061113_1930_4224_26130_30)