On Friday, October 19, 2012 11:33:25 PM UTC+1, SteveW wrote:
On 19/10/2012 13:40, wrote:

Easy for him to say - in a country with around 7 acres of land per person that might *just* be possible. The UK has under 1 acre per person...


It actually says 1 acre per house, not per person. Anyway, we're
thinking of moving to Ireland at some stage!
I was actually making some crude assumptions that we couldn't afford to use more than say 10% of land for fuel and combining it with a guess of 2 to 3 persons in a house, on average...