Finding the chase and cutting to it

I have rearranged my pre-planned publishing list to squeeze this in, because I think it’s pertinent to our time. Which contradicts the subject of this post: procrastination. There are all things we procrastinate about and research actually shows this isn’t necessarily a bad thing (unless you have a time limit on anything). Waiting to or […]

What on earth is an Eddi? Good question – it is a solar diverter and to be fair, it was setup’ish, it’s just now talking to the internet. Why, oh why… Hey, this is my thing. Everyone needs a hobby! A solar diverter is something we have had since we first got our solar panels […]

Get your minds out of the gutter, I’m talking about solar generation and battery size. When we first bought our system, we were recommended to get 27kWh of battery. We didn’t have the spare cash when we bought our initial system, so we bought half of that. Having just shelled out for the heat pump, […]

Today is the 15th July, and I am writing this as I have a brief moment of perkiness which will wipe me out for the rest of the day. Stop writing then! I’m chronically bored. Every movement is painful and I’ve not been able to work since last week. Having signed myself out last week, […]

Can I be honest here? Although I had “done the numbers” and figured out that we would indeed be: I didn’t expect to feel as happy about all that as we do. I think I expected to feel anxious and nervous about the dramatically higher electricity bills. I feel like I am waiting for the […]

It’s the last day of May and as I was lazing in bed this fine Saturday, I heard the Radio 4 programme of the time telling me hose pipe bans were likely to be introduced as much of the country is “in drought”. I live in the part of England that is declared as “semi-arid”. […]

The week 28th April to 4th May has had some brilliant solar collection days in our little part of the world. Indeed, April itself was the sunniest we’ve ever had, with a whopping 524.5 kWh being generated by our grid – and the thing about solar is that everyone whose cells were orientated in the […]

As I type this at 07:45 British summer time, we have only just stopped using our battery to supply our power and yesterday we used just 0.6kWh of electricity sourced from the grid.  At 26p a unit (I know, I know), that’s a whole £0.16 bought electricity.  Which beats Friday, which was a whole £0.25 […]

I’m so excited and I just can’t hide it, I’m about… Why are you singing like that, with a stupid grin on your face? Well, today is the day… Mother’s day? No, concentrate, I get to look at our heating costs and compare a winter with an air sourced heat pump to a gas boiler […]

Time rich, money poor is the mirror of money rich and time poor, which is the problem of our time as we return to the office at least 3 times a week. My commute at the moment takes 4 hours out of my week, and it is shattering. Before I took this role, my commute […]