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Some strange crackling and fizzing has been emanating from the generator room, sparks are flying and electricity is wildly arcing.  What has The Man from Salford being doing?  I suspect he is building a new wife.  A wife who will let him eat steak whenever he wants. A wife who will let him have a [...]

Passers-by frequently tell me they would be quite happy to live in our outhouse.  ‘That’ll do me, duck!’ they quip.  I should point out, they only ever say things like this on fine summer days.  It’s not that they probably wouldn’t make lovely neighbours, but there just isn’t space. 

 
 We have an F.G Wilson 1800 kilowatt diesel powered generating set.  It will not, as I’m fond of telling passers-by light up Blackpool, it will of course only light up 18000 one-hundred watt bulbs.  But my point is, it’s wasteful.  Imagine if all the electricity you are using is just a bedside light to read by, you [...]