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boisdevie wrote:There are no end of places I can hide such a small quantity of gold on my boat.

Having lived on a canal barge for 8 very happy years... some of those floor boards in a hidden area will come up!

Currently at £1236! an ounce

Bank of England said pound would drop 25% under no deal Brexit. Gold might be a hedge against the pound. Personally I think this is a great suggestion, although I no longer live in the UK ;-) We are no were near the August 2011 high in gold in dollar terms, but do you know we are almost about to su...

I have perhaps £2000 in a bank account that I probably don't need. Current rates of interest are rubbish and I was wondering what the consensus was about buying some gold, especially in the run up to Brexit next spring. Thoughts? So Boisdevie, if you had ignored the suggestions and gone out and bo...

Great idea and looks amazing and you buy into the community.... but judging by those pictures it / the rooms are small and I guess for £500000 there are many parts of the UK, out of the south that you can build your own eco house and have some land. £500000 is very pricey in Nottinghamshire, even ...

In view of the situation in Saudi Arabia, might I suggest reviewing stocks of oil derived fuels. That sounds like very sound advice Adam! Just out of interest to the earlier post on paraffin storage. Were the storage containers the ones supplied completely sealed with the new paraffin from the supp...

I would highly recommend these - http://www.DODGY TAX AVOIDERS.co.uk/Varta-4W-LED-Camping-Lantern/dp/B0044QNW988 I won't personally have candles or paraffin lamps anywhere near my house. We have around 6 of the above for emergency lights, a stock of duracell batteries, rechargable cells and the mean...

I have one and it works great on a 50ft Narrowboat...! It works so well in fact that I was going to get my mum one for her new Morse Stove... It will move the air evenly around the room and warm up the hall as well. I wouldn't be with out it at mine, even though I have a back boiler and rads, there ...

If you are not planning to run the fridge / freezer on 12 or 24 volts, then no it would make no sense at all. Shoreline fridges are hand assembled in the south of England using quality parts, but they are at least twice the price of a regular fridge freezer.

quote adam2 Should not be a problem, the limit on the charge controller is the size of PV array that can be used, not the load. Yes that's my point... it's a 15Amp charge controller, plus what to me looks like a very impressive array of seven 40watt panals - this equals a peak out put of 285watts - ...

Just a thought also.... if you are running your system as a 12volt battery.. your charge controller is not beefy enough as it is only rated for a 200watts solar on a 12volt system

Victron make great quality inverters, but sine wave inverters don't come cheap and also you lose energy in the conversion. Since you will need to spend around £500-700 for an 800 watt pure sine wave inverter, perhaps it would be worth thinking about replacing your fridge/freezer for energy efficient...

You would be better using your weekly spare budget, to buy one or two tins of something decent. Perhaps your budget is a couple of quid or a fiver, then you could get one or two tins of decent meat and perhaps some rice or pasta. In terms of calories the average guy needs 2000 calories a day. I can’...

Generally the best advice that I can think of is that you want to store high density food... ie Protein and Carbs. It is after all emergency food. So you want fairly high calories. Having experimented with this subject over the past 7 years. I have found that you can normally double the estimated li...

Seriously though, it doesn't need a mind tuned into oil depletion to realise that we are on a path to currency worthlessness. Personally I wish and hope that we have another 20 years... I know some of you will disagree with this because of climate change.... At the moment things are pretty much norm...