Popped down to the #allotment for a brief #WinterSolstice visit, harvested some vegetables to roast with Gunther tonight. A bit of a motley crew, but they'll do. Parsnips, short, stubby, bulbous - sound a bit like how pets look like their owners, or vice versa... big lumpy beetroot, purple and white - my spirit animals? And some rather diminutive celeriac.

Anyone here using one of those little diesel heaters to warm rooms in a house? Like: https://www.amazon.co.uk/HCALORY-Adapter-Control-Controller-Portable/dp/B0D97HHV75 I guess adequate (safe!) exhaust arrangements are the key difficulty. Even without using the electric central heating our electricity bill really spikes in the winter from the sporadic small electric fan heater use, and I'm a bit tired of living so cold and damp. Not sure if burning diesel to save on electricity fits for the #SolarPunk hashtag or maybe something else, like #EnergyPoverty. Our UK normal waking hours electricity costs something like 33p/kwh (0.38€, 0.44$US, 0.67$AU) — I'm surprised there isn't more uproar about it really. (I also have the solar panels I git cheap and hopes for a small solar project for our "office" power, but that needs a fair bit of spend on battery and charge/iverter stuff.)