A return to night storage heaters? :yikes:Actually, at this rate, many homes may return to the 1950s, with very little heating and a lot of...
With a monarch, there are always more successors waiting in the wings unfortunately, but I take your point. ;)@KT53, I am sure your driving...
Yes, when I renewed recently, PN told me they won't be doing landlines when my contract ends.
I can read between the lines of the pie chart! ;) I just object to the way it is presented to the public, so that people receiving the state...
Dream on, @pete. That would be way too sensible.
Yes, but on the pie chart you could still separate out "benefits" and "state pension". The benefits section would then look far less dramatic.
Where heat pumps aren't practical, surely an electric boiler is the second best option, so making it as cheap to run as a current gas one would be...
Yes, the state pension is called a benefit so it is not seen as an earned "right", but some sort of benevolence. Plus, it then swells that...
"Organisms"! :loll: Perfect description!
Love Only Connect. :blue thumb: Round 2 is a killer though and I rarely get any right. The wall is my fave. Missing letters is a bit hit or...
Indeed! Here's a fairly good article.https://www.moneysupermarket.com/gas-and-electricity/is-gas-or-electric-cheaper/
Well, if they seriously want us to move away from gas, making a unit of electricity cost the same would be a start. Currently it is over 3 times...
Quite so!
And given how often they make mistakes, and how slow they are to correct these, it all sounds a recipe for disaster, IMV.
Agreed. It's just a smoke and mirrors tactic to cover up that fact that in the UK we are overcharged for energy and let down by the regulator at...
@pete, the DWP recently got permission to look into the bank accounts of anyone on benefits, which includes every state pensioner. Now they are...
All my pots are on hard standing ... and the worms find them. :)
I pick mine up one at a time with a grabber, to avoid bending. I start in October and finish round Feb. I try to do 20 mins, or a small...
In a word ... dismal! :sad:
Our morning monsoon passed on by ... and it has turned out frabjous! About 18 degrees, blue sky as far as the eye can see, warm sunshine, and...
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