An energy experiment, I've unplugged the mini beer fridge today. It was only used for soft drinks since we got the extra big fridge, and there's room there for the soft drinks too. It was more for show than for go, and it must have been using a lot of energy. So time to turn it off. I might put it in the loft for a bit before getting rid of it. I've had it for twenty years, and it's been great, but it must be quite inefficient. I will report back on the usage. As I said the other dy my 7am cost is around 50 - 60p at the moment, and a day when we're in goes from £2.50 - £5.50. Will see how that is reduced on the graph, so stay tuned!
I am keeping as close an eye as possible on energy usage, because the cost is going to double next month. Let's let that sink in. It's been in the news a lot, but not everyone is aware. It's on track to treble at the beginning of next year too, so really not-filling-the-kettle-up is going to start making a very significant difference to household bills.
Very strange story in the New Statesman yesterday about how everyone will stop working from home as the home energy bills are going to get so high. Heating your home and powering your devices will come to £30 a day, so you might as well go into the office. I do not understand these figures, for them to apply to me the cost of going into the office would have to half, the cost of energy would have to go up more than tenfold, and it would assume no-one else is in the house and the house can freeze and have no power on. It's crazy propaganda story put about by people with an interest in refilling the offices again for some reason. Not sure who they are, and why they're doing it, maybe businesses involved in letting office space, or a lobbying group on behalf of small business around offices? It looks like even the laughable Jacob Rees Mogg has given up on trying to get civil servants back into offices and will be selling them off. This is a great move, though I do not imagine it's being done for altruistic reasons.
Thirty-one years ago today Guns N Roses at Wembley! I'm fully heavy metal again this week. I saw a bit of Stranger Things and loving the use of Metallica's Master Of Puppets1 in that. Why is it not everywhere like Kate Bush is??
In contrast, Perfume twenty-seven years ago today, at the Joiners.
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