California, Birmingham.
Damned hot, again. How do people work in LA - where the weather’s like this all the time?
The cat is confused. I’ve just moved her off the table as she was sitting on important documents. It makes no sense to her - paper=lovely place to nap - it’s only humans that differentiate between crucial, irreplaceable paper, and paper you use to mop up fur balls.
Okay, so the Process Diagram saga continues. Maybe I should just draw it by hand. I know this is radical… but it may be the only way to make progress without having to learn a different computer programme & find an A3 printer. Out with the technical drawing equipment. Mr Murray would be proud.
So, a good few hours later & I have something that looks like a technical drawing of bog. It’s good because it is forcing me to work out what has to go where. Also timely as I’ve had a message back off the blender bloke saying they’re possibly interested in running a competition. I wonder if I can photograph it and send it to him as a pdf?
Also met with out of school team about playscheme. Have a lot of paperwork to do by monday!
Stupido just rolled off wicker box by mistake then looked round accusingly. She is stupid.
May take a sewing break. We have a laundry problem - ie, it never seems to put itself away after being washed. Also a huge sock mountain. I’ve just ordered some press studs as I have a plan. I will press stud pairs of socks together before they go in the wash. It would be great if they stayed in pairs. Not sure it’ll work but worth a try. Anything never to have to pair socks again.
Funny how this process diagram keeps sending me off thinking about other things… like wedding cake (now only half left!).
If my water storage devices are 2 metres by 2 metres (they’d not be able to be glass in this case) - they’d only need to be 25cm thick in order to carry 1000 litres of water (that’s a tonne!). Need to check out the loads that shipping containers can cope with. So… 20 ft or 6 metres = 17,500 kg payload, or 28cubic metre load volume:
“In exporting, it is common to encounter a payload of 17,500 kgs. or less in the 20′ container”
Would be nice if I could just nip off to the beach after work, though.
Environment agency on rainwater harvesting:
The Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 1989 (Amendment) 19991 specify the quality standards for drinking water, but experts consider these standards too strict to apply to non-potable harvested rainwater. The bathing water standards are considered, by some, to be more appropriate for non-potable use. It has previously been suggested that these standards are used as the minimum requirement for quality.
Now the tricky job of taking a photo of my process diagram - standing on a chair without wobbling. Now on photo 20 and still blurred.
Ruxana from next door has just come round with some sweet rice with nuts & sultanas. Hassan wants to know when he can come round to make paper, he’s dissapointed I’m still working & wanted to know if I’m at college. They are giving me quite regular food parcels now, I had lovely chicken curry the other day too.
Grr, as the card I’ve been drawing on is not white, it does not scan well, or photograph. So, now I have a process diagram of sorts (it does not have included electricity or the wind turbine & water heater.) but no way of computerising it effectively. Hmm, maybe Mike can help.