Get a grip woman!

slm6002

My contract for elec and gas is with british gas.  I sell my unused solar to octopus.  Because I am not with them for buying energy as well I only get about 4p per KW, but it is certainly better than nothing.  If I was with them for everything I think at the time I would have got about 8p per KW, but like you I was not keen to change from the low tarif I am on

Suffolk_lass

I will look properly when we get back. Thanks for that tip @themadvix  - a quick look while I am having this coffee suggests 4.1pp kwh SEG but the main impediment is that we still use a white meter, not a smart meter. So if we move to a smart meter, to satisfy the SEG requirements, we lose the fixed tariff we are on, which won't port. I'm sure I looked before. Our (pre energy price hikes) tariff runs until the end of August so we will wait until then and will know if we are generating more than we are using by then. We never have so far, but the aga has gone off this morning, at 06.15, before the overnight white rate ended. And thanks @slm6002 that is what I found. 4.1p. Hard to justify it being so low. Oh for having the money and foresight to follow @edinburgher's lead when he had his put in, before FIT was withdrawn.

The sense of injustice runs strong here.

themadvix

Ah, yes, not having a smart meter would be the issue (I'm surprised they'll even fit solar without it - but we've been on a time of use tariff for a while because of the car - our 'utility-!!!!!!-storeroom' (it's accessed from outside) resembles a plant room these days!). Definitely better to wait until August in that case.

Suffolk_lass

Back from hols and oh my, lots to do.

Lowlight is returning to find the toolshed door open with the fridge freezer in there also sporting the freezer door wide open and I could hear it from the car. Goodness knows how long but everything in there is binward bound. I couldn't face it immediately, so just shut the door to see if the loud noise stopped. It has now, but I suspect the solar savings have been postponed somewhat as it had clearly been working very hard to try and resume freeze temperature for some time.

Our son is almost 31 now. When does he stop being a teenager please?

Highlight is the lovely Stealth Cat who is so pleased to see us. She came and sat on me, and then sat on the arm of the chair while dog was curled up asleep on my legs. No sulking there. Lovely old girl. 

In money news, DH's pension has finally exceeded the minimum we have to pay in to the Coop running costs account (£800) to be eligible for the loyalty payment (it was £1.42 last month), and I don't need to move it in, move it out again within the calendar month as his pension arrived today (2nd), whereas last month it was 31st March. I think it is paid the day before his birthday (3rd) rather than 1st of the month, and takes account of weekends and holidays. He's not sure.

In the garden I planted lots of squash seeds (cucumbers, pumpkins, butternuts, courgettes, tromboncino) but I'm waiting before doing beans as I am short of space. I potted on masses of tomatoes too and dropped off 6 to my neighbour whose dog we walk. My peppers and chillies are still too small to pot on.

I also snipped lots of salad leaves and pulled loads of radishes from the window box where I sprinkled old seeds, and we had these as part of last night's supper with jacket potatoes and grilled chicken thighs; the latter from the freezer, the potatoes left from pre holiday because DS appears only to eat pizza, despite me leaving him lots of lovely meals. This did mean we have not shopped yet, but I must today.

foxgloves

Nice to hear from you again & hope you enjoyed your holiday, @Suffolk_lass - How annoying about the freezer! Agree garden efforts are just never-ending atm. I am trying to keep just one priority task in mind each day & anything else I get done out there afterwards is a bonus. I did find space for two crates of big yoghurt pots (which I use for beans) so I did go ahead & sow them at the weekend. However, I only managed to find a space because of receiving a cold frame last week for my birthday, which meant I could shift all the lettuce babies, geraniums which I am growing on & trays of cerinthe into that.
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Karmacat

Hope you enjoyed the hols, SL.  But the freezer! Aieeeee!  Everything else sounds really great.

rtandon27

Welcome back SL - hope you had a refreshing holiday!  It's so nice to 'hear' your voice again

Yikes to the open freezer!!! (insert blue shrieky here x3)

Suffolk_lass

Thanks everyone. TBH I was pleased to be home. I am a bit of a home-bird on the QT. I have just emptied the freezer and washed the shelves and DH has done his bit on his hands and knees washing out the freezer!

• 4 pots of pre-cooked dry stuff. 2 of beans, one chick peas, 1 brown rice. 
• 1 Orange and carrot cake 
• 2 courgette & lime cakes
• 2 pots of HM ready meals; curry and chilli
• Bag of blackcurrants
• Bag of gooseberries
• 2 bags of chopped red onions
• 1 really big bag of frozen peas I should have moved before we left - they no longer make the bags that big.
• 2 packs of 2 uncooked pork steaks
• Cooked rhubarb
• chillies
• pre-cooked Seville oranges for marmalade
• 2 space filler freezer packs

Devastating waste 

2 more loads of washing so far this morning, while the sun is out and a third to go (same yesterday). After DH stays I always need to hot wash some stuff. He really is so slovenly (by my standards!) I have got the under slips off the pillows as they looked rather yellow to me, as well as bed-linen, all towels and our clothes. The whites are currently soaking in a house trug with laundry bleach and washing soda in warm water. Time to dog walk now

foxgloves

Ohhhhh - I know you & I are the same re food waste. I'd be gutted with that. Reminded me instantly of the haul we lost when our (not even old) freezer carked it. Nothing you can do except shake the lid-leaver-upper up in a bag. What a welcome back!
I'm also having a laundry day. In fact, I've done so much, I've almost run out of pegs!
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themadvix

Lovely to have you back SL, although I'm another wincing at the food waste. You sound like you're cracking on with everything though.