Finding the chase and cutting to it

I had one of “those mornings” where a high blood glucose reading had settled in a refused to budge. It’s hard to work out if it’s the tail end of my infection, or the fact I actually managed to do an hour’s walk/hike to our local park and back home through the cemetry and it’s […]

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, […]

My son believes I work too hard. I love my day job, so it doesn’t feel like work to me but my fitness app is of the same opinion “try to optimise rest today”. Economically, I’m very much of the belief that hard work pays dividends, gets rewarded, etc. But only 10% of effort is […]

Can I be honest here? Although I had “done the numbers” and figured out that we would indeed be: Reducing our annual carbon footprint. From 1.2 tonnes per annum to 0,3 tonnes. Making the most of the energy we were generating. Paying off a big up-front payment for the batteries and heat pump. I didn’t […]