Finding the chase and cutting to it

You’re one in a million is one of those adages that crops up from time to time. In a world with 8,224,932,469 people (at time of writing, please see the latest figure at https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ ) in it, it is meant to make you feel a little bit special – it is such a great marketing […]

Tenacious is a word often used to describe me, whether a small kid working out how insulin worked or playing bridge with my family on a Sunday evening, I am a sticker. I learn what I need to do something to the best of my ability and have goals saying whether that process is complete. […]

You know how much I love a three day weekend.  When my husband asked what I wanted to do with the last useful bank holiday in the UK this year, I said “clean the gutters”. One of the few big benefits of a “chalet bungalow” is having gutters that can be easily reached reached with […]

This is another look at how our heat pump is working for us. Our home energy set-up is reasonably straight-forward. We have power coming in from the grid and our roof-mounted solar panels. The power from the roof is either used directly, or stored in our batteries (27kWh of storage). We also have an EV, […]