WEBVTT NOTE Transcript 2024-04-11 from FLAC by https://elvery.net/prototypes/transcribe/ on my MacBook Air M1 on maximum quality setting. NOTE Body edited. 00:00.000 --> 00:02.000 Diarycast 00:02.000 --> 00:16.800 Hi, I'm Damon Hart-Davis, and welcome to Earth Notes podcast on all things eco and green and efficient at home! 00:16.800 --> 00:19.800 25th September 00:19.800 --> 00:23.840 2020. Wow a long gap to fill in since the last diarycast.... 00:24.080 --> 00:32.080 This is a somewhat self-indulgent personal and EOU diary from shattering a tooth, via a UKation and a new washing machine, 00:32.080 --> 00:35.680 to getting batty about Chiroptera in the hood! 00:35.680 --> 00:42.440 26th of July: I shattered a tooth probably from clenching my jaw and grinding my teeth in the night from stress! 00:42.440 --> 00:48.400 Something crunched when I was biting into a soft roll. Picking chunks of tooth out of my mouth wasn't great... 00:48.720 --> 00:54.720 Luckily I had a (covid-postponed) routine checkup book just two days after, so it got seen quickly, 00:54.720 --> 01:01.120 with a few more days until a fix. The dentist told me that lots of people have broken their teeth under lockdown... 01:01.120 --> 01:08.120 30th July: there were what I took to be grasshoppers making themselves heard in the heat of solar noon in the cemetery: 01:08.120 --> 01:10.120 [crickets] 01:10.120 --> 01:12.120 [crickets] 01:12.120 --> 01:14.120 [crickets] 01:40.280 --> 01:47.560 First of August: I may have snuck in a visit to my old local, purely to help prop up the economy, with not a thought for myself. 01:47.560 --> 01:50.400 This may in fact have happened more than once... 01:50.400 --> 01:54.200 I've usually been able to sit outside, and distancing hasn't been an issue. 01:54.200 --> 01:57.160 Meeting up with friends is very much a good thing! 01:57.160 --> 02:05.360 Also in August: in place of two cancelled visit/holiday bookings with parents, and no chance of a south-of-France summer fortnight, 02:05.440 --> 02:12.440 we went away for a week at the end of the month. We went to intermittently-sunny Weymouth for which I will do a soundscape. 02:12.440 --> 02:19.120 Away baseline energy consumption is evident, and with the Enphase AC battery there is zero grid import, 02:19.120 --> 02:24.360 ie neither for electricity nor for gas for the duration! More in a statscast to come... 02:24.360 --> 02:26.360 4th of September: though 02:26.360 --> 02:31.240 I don't normally bother with supplements, to reduce the risks of another run-in with covid, 02:31.240 --> 02:37.440 I have started taking D3 (a thousand IU or 25 micrograms per day) as of today. 02:37.440 --> 02:41.240 Six months supply was less than four pounds, 02:41.240 --> 02:46.800 so a very cheap risk reducer, along with my squats and press-ups and one-mile walk most days. 02:46.800 --> 02:52.160 5th of September: this morning our eleven-year-old washing machine died with a whimper. 02:52.160 --> 02:56.680 The new one was with us in five days without fuss, covid notwithstanding. 02:56.680 --> 03:01.920 The old machine was actually a washer dryer, but these days we hang everything up inside or out to dry, 03:01.920 --> 03:04.200 so the replacement was actually cheaper. 03:04.200 --> 03:07.200 I have hopes that the new "Mix 20" wash 03:07.200 --> 03:15.280 will help save energy (compared to a 30 degree C programme) in mid-winter when a cold wash would not get some loads clean enough. [...] 03:15.280 --> 03:34.040 6th of September: in sympathy, or because it was not getting enough attention, our dishwasher flooded. 03:34.040 --> 03:38.720 It had a rocky few days, and our wooden laminate floor may never recover, 03:38.720 --> 03:41.800 but at least as of today the dishwasher continues to work. 03:42.200 --> 03:47.800 7th of September: we put our son's chest of drawers (originally free, more than 15 years ago) 03:47.800 --> 03:52.360 on Freegle to make space for an upgrade to a bigger and fancier wardrobe for him. 03:52.360 --> 03:58.480 12th of September: this evening was a 90-minute sound walk around the estate near 16WW, 03:58.480 --> 04:02.480 including bat-detecting at the end! 13th of Septembea:r today 04:02.480 --> 04:06.040 we had the joy of assembling the flat pack wardrobe and installing it. 04:06.040 --> 04:11.520 But again, a purchase, delivery and the rest not impeded noticeably by covid. 04:11.520 --> 04:17.440 21st of September: and over the next few nights, I've been listening to common pipistrelles 04:17.440 --> 04:23.440 echo-locating at 45 kilohertz, overflying our back garden and at the front 04:23.440 --> 04:48.440 [...] 04:48.440 --> 04:53.440 Continuing thanks to Deniz for the loan of his Olympus field recorder. 04:53.440 --> 04:58.640 It's definitely feeling as if I should get my own, since I'm making good use of it in unexpected ways. 04:58.640 --> 05:02.600 From Weymouth beach to bat detection to cemetery grasshoppers... 05:02.600 --> 05:06.440 Source tracks are available from the show notes. 05:12.440 --> 05:19.440 There's more on my Earth Notes Web site at Earth.Org.UK.