Battery Farming

Sometimes our windmill is going round with a good old blast of fresh air but the batteries don't want to give anything out so a bit of detective work shows us we have a dodgy battery

the battery fluid indicates no charge as the red band is below the water level

the dodgy one in the middle of the battery bank store is the one with the battery cap open

topping up the rest of the batteries with de-ionised water and also checking them with gauge

the fluid showing in the top up hole gets checked by the indicator gauge

 the gauge   --when the gauge instrument floats in the hole it shows the acidity level of the battery

disconnecting the dodgy battery

 

and by-passing it with a good submarine one

the negative is connected to a positive and vice versa joining the good "new" one to where the dodgy one is missed out!!

Ingleborough

Limestone Pavement

The walk up --we usually take the path from the Hawes-Ingleton Road

Ingleborough in the background

Clints and Grykes

Ribbleshead Viaduct further on towards Hawes

Oyster Catchers

The swales on the fell are now host to many birds and so not only are they attracting wildlife, they are holding the rain water which then sinks down into the water table instead of flowing into the river and creating floods.

The new tenants surveying the swales

So, which one ?

Young trees with guards.

Permaculture students

This week, 20 students for 12 days have been lucky to have had good weather as the dining room is outside and has a tarp canopy overhead in case it rains

The pizza oven built on a previous occasion

Washing up is done outside

Rod next to the "encampment"

Students working on a project

Adam (middle) teaching basic carpentry

Discussing projects under the main berber

Thanks for the photo everyone! Alan (right) is another teacher

inside the study centre another group in discussion on their project

The "Slug Predator" in the poly tunnel is used to having it's photo taken!!

Happy

as a

slow worm

...can be

in a warm place out of the rain and wind..no place like a poly tunnel!

A cluster of baby swallows

Four babies packed into the corner of a beam behind our house

Wild Flower Meadows

the field known as Low Holme towards the public footbridge