Last month's community quiet day featured the heating engineers. Today, on a day when we don't speak or use noisy appliances (except where necessary) and take it a bit easier and more mindfully, we inevitably had a delivery of wood chip. The lorry spent more than an hour pumping chip into the store, and the drone of the pump vibrated throughout the building.
Harry the boiler has been working away happily for a while now, and people are again taking heating and hot water for granted when they wake up. This is a good thing in that it shows that biomass can be as dependable as oil or gas-fired boilers. It is less of a good thing in that we take far too much for granted in the UK. But for the moment, I had a happy uplifting feeling in the mid-morning when I suddenly became conscious that the heat from my radiator had been produced from renewable sources. Huzzah!
Between September 2010 and September 2011, I lived alongside an Anglican Benedictine community of monks and nuns. In November 2010, we moved from Broad Marston Manor near Evesham to Mucknell Abbey, a new eco-monastery near Worcester. This blog was about things that I observed and things that interested me. I have now stopped writing it. Thank you to all who were also interested.
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