• Spent all day trying to instal Nettalk Voip USB drivers, Tech support very helpful. 3 months ago
May
25

T’ai Chi For a Healthy Retirement

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I started doing T’ai Chi Ch’uan long before I retired — nearly 20 years ago. At the time, T’ai Chi was the flavor of the month. These days it’s fallen behind Yoga and Zumba classes. But just because you take an exercise class, doesn’t mean you can’t do T’ai Chi as well. Continue reading T’ai Chi For a Healthy Retirement

Mar
26

Expensive Rotisserie chicken for retirees

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Now spring has arrived  we decided to grill outside more often. To spice up the menu I bought a generic grill rotisserie so we could try to cook different ways. Our grill is a 20 year old Sunbeam which is not made any more. It has a glass see through front which is hard to find now days on an out door grills.

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Mar
20

Oil from Plastic waste.

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From our previous post we have gotten into composting all our organic waste. Our only trash is now plastic food wrappers and plastic bags. Everything else is recycled  cardboard/news papers/paper/cans/bottles. So I  began to think of what a waste sending all this plastic to a landfill.

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Mar
18

Build a garden compost for retirees.

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After  our trip to our cites recycle center we decide to build a larger compost bin. We had a small plastic 50gal size unit supplied by the city but needed a larger one. So as retirees we decided to  build one.

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Mar
08

Story about how stuff is made and discarded.

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Today while browsing Youtube looking for a 'how to video' I stumbled across  a 21 minute video about how things work and how unsustainable our existing consumption system is.

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Dec
31

Coffee savings

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While on a trip to England we got into drinking strong hot coffee during those cold and rainy days.

We found a coffee shop called Costa coffee very similar to Starbucks but we thought was better.   They served their coffee in china cups and saucers, although you could get coffee “to go”  (“take out”  . . . → Read More: Coffee savings

Dec
07

RV lifestyle without RV

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For many years I have seriously though about buying a RV.  I eventually came up with  the 5th wheel set up.  This basically allowed us to park our RV at a camp site, unhook our pickup, and have a means of transport away from the campsite. Then the cost began to mount up. We were trying to see if we liked the lifestyle. Our idea was to RV at the weekend and holidays to try it out. While I was working we had to park the RV somewhere . RV parking cost started to add up. Then I had a brainwave:- Live a RV lifestyle without a RV Continue reading RV lifestyle without RV