Video Transcript
Pete : I’m Pete, I’m 53 and I’m the Daddy.
Luke: I’m Luke, I’m aged 10 and I’m the oldest child.
Diana: I’m Diana, I’m the mummy, 43.
Henry: I’m Henry and I’m 7 and I’m the youngest in the house.
Pete: I work in TV and I’ve always been interested in broadcasting.
Diana: I went into television too, but about 4 years ago I gave that all up, and I live the good life now!
Pete: When we first met we weren’t really thinking about green issues, we were thinking about each other. But you thought maybe more.
Diana: Yes because in Holland we have been more ahead maybe of recycling and being green, so for me it’s like a deep rooted system that I have continued to work in my life here.
Pete: Well when we first moved here we used to get frequent power cuts, and I wanted to have an uninterrupted power supply. So I thought well we’re on a windy hill here, and it seems like the ideal situation to put something like a wind turbine up. And I started to explore the possibilities. We were the first domestic customers in this part of the world to have a grid connect scheme on. And eventually with some lobbying to my local MP we managed to get an agreement to put it together.
Diana: They don’t make it easy for you.
Pete: Well in fact because it was a hassle it made me more determined to sort it out.
Diana: And also it’s nice as well to do your bit. With the wind turbine you are producing green energy and also we’ve got solar panels too, and it feels really nice, it feels really good.
Pete: I shall never forget when it first went on line it was 9 years ago, and it was a fantastic feeling to see your metre going backwards basically.
Luke: What I’m doing is I’m recycling these batteries, which came from school, which the children recycled. Once I collected them, I recycled the batteries. I sent them to Blue Peter and I got a Blue Peter badge for it!
Henry: Cool.
Diana: I like the fact that we live off the land, we grow all our own vegetables.
Pete: We grow more than we need, in fact we have a sort of bartering arrangement with the local neighbours.
Diana: We used to earn more than we needed so we used to have disposable income, we don’t now, financially it’s more tight. It doesn’t bother me because I find inner happiness, I’m happiest at home with my children. And that’s enough, I don’t need to go away to find it, because I’ve got it in here.
Pete: I just do a bit more overtime...