It's early days, so give the website a few weeks to get up to speed. You will be able to follow our progress, get notice of meetings and access case studies from other communities as well as technical papers on all things energy.

Another potential community asset mooted for Braidwood is a skills exchange. One idea is to develop a system of swapable credits for work done. Part of the set-up would be the compiling of a skills register so that we all know what can be done locally. If we approach the idea in a spirit of generosity and goodwill it might have social benefits beyond simply cashless transactions.

I was sitting in a local lolly shop the other day with a couple of like-minded geezers, just sipping coffee, fixing the problems of the world and watching a vehicular conveyor belt of public servants returning from the seaside. It suddenly occurred to me that in many other places, rural Iran for instance, there would be conversationalists sitting and chatting just like us.

But dark forces are at work. Remember what happened last time the United States had a cowboy sheriff and we had a willing deputy? Britain, as well, had a leader willing to make up the 'axis of deception' and oh, oh, a suitable bovver boy just got the top job in the UK.

Did any of the last three warmongers ever apologise for the non-existence of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction? No, they never do. But we remember how they lied to us and how ordinary Iraqi people are still suffering from an invasion that destroyed the civil fabric of their society. Please let's not fall for the same old lies and join up when the US arms industry leans on STUPO to let them 'blow the bejeesus' out of Iran.