Blog2022 ≫ It's octopus eco-hour again

That came round fast. Think we're going for it again, turn all the power off from 5:30 to 6:30 this week. We can have tea after that. Before that I'm taking T1 to a football thing at Three Hills Sports Centre, he's going to try out for a junior team but it's all a bit confusing.

We have a house full of microwaves at the moment. Old microwave unplugged but left in the hall. Clare thinks it has been poisoning her. It is a bit old now. I could not get a booking at the tip to get rid of it yet. The replacement one is also in the hallway, boxed up, ready for me to take it back to Waitrose when I get a minute. Then we have a replacement replacement, simple, cheap-ish, no-one wants it, a disappointing purchase. I went to Currys last night and picked one up. We really need it especially if I'm going to try and minimise use of the oven. I see my energy usage is about half-to-two-thirds of what my friends are reporting. It's only if we have the oven on for a while or we do a lot of washing that it goes up. Central heating kicked in today. You can see it on the graph, our "7am wake up usage" is twenty to thirty pence higher. Over a quid today, shocker!

Work very busy, everything busy. Not getting out for much fresh air. Think I will go back to parkrun this week. Was talking with a friend about joining the running club at Three Hills too so that might happen. I'm getting a bit lazy.

Not done anything about christmas yet. I know Clare has got me a present as it came in the post today completely unwrapped, it's some scales for my coffee.

Estimated 672 cups of coffee from my espresso machine1 prob'ly comes to £1.69 a cup (including actual coffee and now servicing1 so not the 'leccy).

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