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Anne Miller wrote:
I like HTML ...

My brain has been mulling over HTML and

I forgot HTML is a Hyper Text Markup Language 😂
And to begin JavaScript I would use it inside HTML, so I'm wrong 🤣 very wrong!!!

But honestly I guess one thing to consider is why the person wants to learn a computer language

If it's for a job, python is great

If you want to play with robots, even mindstorms uses python, but there are easier ways to start

If you don't have access to install anything, definitely HTML will be a contender...

And if I want to teach a language, it's the one I would check if the student already knows some HTML
And make a decision based on my ability to install what I want
Immediately, the computer (or smartphone / programmable brick) operating system keeps coming up in my mind ..

Nancy Reading wrote:

Michael Cox wrote:We too live in a big, sprawling older house with leaky windows and doors, and an underfloor area that is essentially open to outside. It's a pain to heat and through the winter we have our fire running pretty much 24/7.

Our previous house was a 3 bed semi with suspended floorboards on the ground floor. We found that putting a good underlay under the carpet downstairs made a lot of difference. I seem to remember we actually used one with a vapour barrier - maybe closed cell foam, like they use under laminate flooring? Anyway for cutting down the draughts it worked really well.

Oh that would feel soooo good on the toes!

My floor isn't that cold, but I like walking around bare foot.

This house it's just 4x4 thin plywood nailed to the rough timber subfloor.

I have recycled tire rubber 6x8 mats taped down with carpet tape.

It turned out mats were not going to work for a stripped motorhome rebuild, (they won't withstand heat swings without perishing and cracking)
so I finally have flooring -- it looks better than faded mistinted paint on squares and it's warmer!

(The 1960's lino was one of many things that came out upon purchase, but you know, do the floors last 😂 )

That hasn't covered all of it, but
I will do another section with rubberized carpet squares,  scrounged with a free motorhome, that are now washed of glue, sun-dried, and ready to install -- they'll work pretty well too.

Tiki Hunter wrote:A lot of body heat is lost through your head and waist.  

😂
That explains the night cats
... on the stomach and the head.
I have warm feet too, so that's probably why Shackleton the lowest in the pecking order slept on my feet!

L Gaudette wrote:

... my hands when working at a computer.

I have some wool fingerless gloves but they start to bother me and I get too warm after a bit - I think I'd need something a little thinner and a little more fitted. I !

Try getting some cotton blend work gloves. I find them at an all purpose store that sells clothes for working outdoors, in packs of 10 or more that cost a couple dollars each at most, and cut the fingers off. Use them for cleaning jobs when it's time to replace them.
I also keep a couple pairs in each glove compartment

Thank you Nancy! You're the best!

Since the days of a canine bed pig, the spruce trees are nowuch taller and do a better job of cutting the wind.

20 years along, the electrical is safe upgraded, and I have upgraded the black. Joe (tar paper) on the outside with house wrap and siding, and the big patio door is permanently closed with 10 mil vapor barrier taped up with red house wrap tape, outside and inside, and the picture window on the incoming wind side now overlooks a small add-on on the balcony which is also vapor barrier wrapped. The insulation on the problem side of the house is now red taped up with patches of Styrofoam insulation inside, lending a colourful backdrop to pans hanging on screws decorating the wall

The roof insulation was changed and the roofing cover and soffits were added

It is much warmer these days, but what helps most is that it is 850 SQ ft over a basement where the wood furnace is a long with furnace fan, a high powered squirrel cage fan, ceiling fans, a few more positioned strategically, and I keep the 5x8 bathroom toasty warm

Also the windows have insulated roman blinds, and I roll up rugged clothing awaiting laundry under door cracks.

Tina Nixon wrote:Since it’s now August and autumn is around the corner, I’d like to mention one of my fave energy conservation gizmos: a bed pig. It’s a stoneware jug with a screw-top & you fill it with hot water. Ideal for warming the bedsheets, but also perfect for setting your feet against while sitting in a chair.

I had a canine version of a bed pig for 12 years -- somehow a 80lb dog taking up the lion's share of a torture rack futon and three obligatory feline head, stomach and foot warmers

I kept the house at 57 •F / 14 C with a wood furnace and on grid hydroelectric powered baseboard heaters and thermostat to come on at the specified temperature , prevent water pipes freezing, and got used to a cooler house.

Winter arrives illusory later, but the best part is Spring comes sooner : once it's warmer outdoors than indoors, out you go!

British Class coconut oil is the cheapest I've found and comes in a tin, and I bought a few dozen cans about 7 years ago, stored in a cool place, zip locked to keep moisture from the cans, mine should last for a few more years until I run out.

Yes any oil or fat, it's just that coconut oil is in the kitchen where the wire scrubbers are! 😂

I prefer not to use rendered fat as it will go rancid and make the oil cloths stink and maybe attract wildlife.

Clarified coconut oil is much much cheaper than the virgin stuff (that smells like coconut) which I save for uncooked food consumption.

You can use the nice coconut oil though

hemp oil is great for oiling wood but it's expensive

You shouldn't fry with unsaturated fats and oils by the way -- better to burn ,/ smoke coconut oil or rendered fats : higher smoking point and our bodies at least know what to do with oxidated saturated fats

Rick Valley wrote:I love AhROOGLAH, but it's iffier to grow in my conditions and doesn't reseed much, so it's a delicacy rather than a staple: my staples grow like weeds.

Yeah I used to have an arugula-mustatd "landrace?"  thingy that didn't seed well if it wasn't in a barrel, but perhaps that's where came my brassica cross mustard annual that grows a bit better

Wild spinach:. Eat some  paste
while doing your 1st coffee checkup..
Grab a couple handfuls going kitchen-ward

But I've been switching to nettles which love compost! And of course you can't eat them raw

so actually I have been eating much less salad and
just sticking those weeds in my flatbread
as I pass 2nd coffee checkup

E Nordlie wrote:
my experiences (so far) in reducing broad bean beetle damage ..  :
permies.com/t/149600/permaculture/Natural-pest-control-broad-bean#2657998

Oh cool!

You know you're a permie when...

Broad bean mixed breed landrace

Gotta go read....