Breaking Through, Travelling On

Cheery_Daff

Me too ZTD! I'm sat under a skylight and can't see out of it at all through all the snow!

Productive morning there KC :j :j Do you have to have bright sunshine for the kettle, or will it work in just ordinary daylight? Is the solar thingy attached to the kettle, or can you put it separately on the windowsill and have the kettle in the kitchen? I'm intrigued!

Watty1

Intrigued by solar kettle and Mozart's balls. off to google

Karmacat

:rotfl:Mortally offended at being called a southerner :rotfl:but I'm nesh as a southerner, its true

This is the solar kettle: http://www.nigelsecostore.com/cgi-bin/sh000001.pl?WD=kettle&PN=Solar_Kettle.html#aSOLARKETTLE01 I bought mine from ebay, much much cheaper, and the guy had great feedback. It does seem to work inside the house, takes a bit longer, but it really sounds very efficient. I'll let you know when it arrives!

I did the scanning I needed to do, but nothing else, just some health care-taking, felt really tired after all the pushing for the tax. Interesting talk with my mum, though, about future plans, she really, really wants me to keep hold of the house (freehold) even if it means renting it out for a while. We're wondering about win-win cooperation, after I retire ...

Anyway, today, submitting French tax return, and I *may* talk to HMRC about the weird "fill in the boxes in order" thing at the beginning of my English tax account. The data was accepted last Friday, I paid what they wanted, and the request for money that should be paid by today has disappeared, because I paid it. I get the feeling that it isn't urgent - if its just an admin thing, or a computer glitch, it can actually wait a whole year, so says their website.

I may start to ready the 6 year old tax papers to shred :j

Watty1

shredding the old tax papers is one thing I love doing. it always seems such a relief to let a year go in that way . Logically I know there is still 6 years they can rummage through but I'm not sure my mind is entirely logical

Karmacat

Nor me, Watty, I'm pretty sure my mind doesn't always move logically :rotfl: it skips about, and sometimes does an about-turn altogether :rotfl:

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

This is the solar kettle: http://www.nigelsecostore.com/cgi-bin/sh000001.pl?WD=kettle&PN=Solar_Kettle.html#aSOLARKETTLE01 I bought mine from ebay, much much cheaper, and the guy had great feedback. It does seem to work inside the house, takes a bit longer, but it really sounds very efficient. I'll let you know when it arrives!

I like the two paragraphs:

The Solar Kettle gives you hot or boiling water on tap wherever there is sunshine.

and

How long does it take to boil?
On a bright sunny day:
0-60 degrees takes 1 hour
100 degrees (boiling) takes 2 hours.

I lived in some places with pretty pathetic mains pressure, but it has always taken less than 2 hours for something to come out of the tap...

This is more my style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItQ6hkJ8SGI

However, this does show what "key words" are required to sell something to both of us:

Karmacat: solar kettle, eco, efficient
ZTD: Giant Death Ray

Karmacat wrote: »

I may start to ready the 6 year old tax papers to shred :j

Don't forget - it's 6 years and 1 month...

Cheery_Daff

Don't think I've ever shredded anything :eek: I still have payslips from an agency job I did in, er, 2001 Honestly - who on earth is going to ever ask me for 14 year old payslips?! Or, for that matter, the tax renewal document from 10 years ago for a van we sold 4 years ago?!

That's it - I'm on the look out for a shredder :rotfl:

ZTD

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Don't think I've ever shredded anything :eek: I still have payslips from an agency job I did in, er, 2001 Honestly - who on earth is going to ever ask me for 14 year old payslips?! Or, for that matter, the tax renewal document from 10 years ago for a van we sold 4 years ago?!

That's it - I'm on the look out for a shredder :rotfl:

Well 14 years is probably pushing it, but round about 2004, I had to dig out payslips for the then OH to prove she'd paid National Insurance for the previous period (there was a bit of debate as to whether it was a work cockup or a DWP cockup). They were a few years beyond the 6 year cut-off period, but still apparently needed which even at the time I thought was a bit naughty.

edinburgher

I love the idea of a solar kettle, but surely Nigel could have come up with a better name for his website (no offence Nigel) :rotfl:

ZTD

edinburgher wrote: »

I love the idea of a solar kettle, but surely Nigel could have come up with a better name for his website (no offence Nigel) :rotfl:

NigelsGiantDeathRays.com - does have that certain, je ne sais quoi...