Power to the people…or not.

Today we were scheduled to have a power cut in Metung for some work replacing power poles. The cut to the power started at 8.30 am and was meant to conclude at 2.30 pm. I received a text message at about 12.00 telling me that the power would not be restored until 5.00 pm as…

We’ve gone solar power – not operating yet as the wait is for the paperwork!

We decided that the time was right to change to solar power after we received our last electricity bill.  Even though our use of power has gone down, the bill has gone up. We decided to have the panels put on the back shed rather than the house roof as the shed roof provided excellent…

Female arborist, now that is a rare species!

 Yesterday we had the local tree surgeons operating on the trees in our street.  The powerlines need to be kept clear of branches to maintain our electricity supply and today it was the turn of our street to have the trees pruned.  It is quite a big job. ‘To work near power wires either additional…