Month of February, 2008

My mum and dad have just taken advantage of a local scheme and got their loft insulation topped up to twelve inches (from three inches). They are going to save an absolute mint (well approximately £64 a year and 24 tonnes of CO2 over 30 years). They were told two years ago that they did not need any more insulation as they had so much stuff stored up there (this is rubbish, I was alarmed when I found out).

Last Saturday, 23^rd February, the Royal Hill in Edgerley hosted the Climate Change Pub Quiz. The staff of the Royal Hill were very helpful and had even allocated the pool room for us to run the quiz in. There were six teams in the quiz. From MEA we had Richard Hammerton as the quizmaster and Toby Morgan to wear the sparkly outfit and show the prizes on offer.

Have you seen any daffodils blooming yet? Up until about 20 years ago the average earliest blooming date for daffodils was 11th March. Two years ago the date was set at today's date, the 26th February. I had daffs blooming two weeks ago outside my house in a north facing bed....

Me and my son talk a lot about climate change as you might expect, but not in a preachy way and its only when he raises the topic. Anyway the other day I asked him to draw a picture of his vision of the house of the future. I dreamed of solar panels, grass roofs and no straight lines. Two hours later he brought me a picture of a semi detached house, completely submerged. Ouch.