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Has everyone ordered their free Octopus stuffy?
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ACarneiro
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Cute, but another bit of tat made in China and flown half way across the world.... I’ll pass 
(Maybe I’m just getting grumpy in my old age)
(Maybe I’m just getting grumpy in my old age)
Based on how much octopus have messed and delayed me around this year.. I'll order one and have a ceremonial burning ceremony
TheEVadvisor
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Jason71
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There are 3 options at the end.Cute, but another bit of tat made in China and flown half way across the world.... I’ll pass
(Maybe I’m just getting grumpy in my old age)
small, large, plant a tree.
so maybe do it anyway and go for option 3 or do you hate trees as well now?
ACarneiro
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They’re big and noisy and block the view and fall on things. Nothing good ever came out of a tree, I say!
(didn’t notice that option, thanks for the tip!)
Glan gluaisne
Active Member
I have a nice house almost entirely made from trees, even down to the insulation . . .
Must work out how many trees it took to build it, one day. I know it took 9 larch trees to clad it, as I went to see the trees before they were felled.
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Just been doing some rough sums, and it looks as if about 70 trees (most probably European Redwood/Whitewood) were used to build the house frame, and provide the cellulose for the insulation (although that was recycled from old newspapers). Although we felled 9 European Larch trees for the cladding, I still have about half a tree's worth left as boards. So it looks as if we used about 79 trees in total to build the house. The impact of that on the environment was offset by new planting, and by the fact that the house is a "negative carbon" house, that reduces CO2 emissions by about 0.9 tonnes per year, roughly equivalent to having around 40 mature trees on the site. We've more than offset the carbon sequestration of the trees we felled, as the house has been up for a few years now, plus the carbon from those trees is still sequestered in the house structure, and probably will be for a lot longer than it would in a tree.
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phil4
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Ordered a large one for the kid.
The smart meter installer left a smaller one that's already found a home.
The smart meter installer left a smaller one that's already found a home.
ACarneiro
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tomorrowman
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Thought you would love one to celebrate finally making it to Octopus Go tariff.Cute, but another bit of tat made in China and flown half way across the world.... I’ll pass
(Maybe I’m just getting grumpy in my old age)
Went for large one to go with teeny one smart meter installer gave me.
Didn't see the plant a tree option sadly
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nope... just getting wiser IMOCute, but another bit of tat made in China and flown half way across the world.... I’ll pass
(Maybe I’m just getting grumpy in my old age)
more plastic sh*te that no one needs
ah, good one! I just twigged ...
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