So close, we can smell mortgage freedom!

Karmacat

savingholmes said:

Hope the funeral goes well 

Oh my word, yes, hope it goes as well as these things ever can.

themadvix

Thanks both. Funeral is friend’s mum - so sad - very aggressive brain cancer so quite sudden and friend lost her dad to cancer a few years ago too (he had battled for 17 years with it though). It seems we are far too young for her to be an ‘orphan’. 

badmemory

Take my word for it 69 is too young to be an orphan.  None of us are ever really prepared to loose our parents unless they take a long time to go, which is whole another type of nightmare.

Baileys_Babe

My Dad refers to himself as having been orphaned, he was 76 when his Mum died 😢

newgirly

Hope the funeral goes ok Vix, it sounds like you have an awful lot on at the moment! 

themadvix

Morning all, 

Thanks for all your thoughts re the funeral and being orphaned. It went as well as could be expected. Got chatting to a lovely lady at the wake - the other school friend couldn’t come to the pub, so glad to have someone to talk to. (I appear to have turned into my mum - this is her move at funerals where she doesn’t know anyone!).

 By some miracle (and a late takeaway), I managed to get my accounts done, attend a Cambridge meeting, cat sit, attend funeral (and stay longer than planned), pop in to see mum (not planned, but given what I’d been doing, felt necessary), do a good amount of work for main client, and get hall cleared and floor cleaned (Mr MV did most of the cleaning), ready for oiling this morning.

MS things:
* HW done, clicks done 
* Cambridge time sheet submitted
* Mr MV paid for dinner but we also had a 40% off voucher and he signed up for a month’s free Uber one trial to get free delivery - and it was really nice too- calzone from somewhere new that we wouldn’t have tried without the voucher. Given that my lunch was one buffet item and then a bowl of cereal when I got back home, I was in need of a good dinner!
* Work done, despite busy day - it would have been easy to put it off, but then I’d have had to do more while we’re away (I am taking laptop and will be doing done each day)
* Solar generated 3.4 kW even in the minging weather yesterday 

Gratitudes:
* Cuppa with mum (and sis and niece, as they had called in after school)
* Nice chat with dad - they’ve just got back from a holiday in Jordan
* Really nice dinner
* Jobs all done

 Have a good weekend all!

Suffolk_lass

3.4kwh is good for poor weather. How many panels have you had fitted (and what is their dimension and capacity please? I am sure you have already put this in your diary but I can't remember what I have read where at the moment. We are waiting for an offer based on the County Council sponsored Solar Together group purchase approach and a comparison is helpful. I know our neighbours who had theirs installed about three weeks ago are also awaiting their batteries. Apparently the TESLA factory had a fire and so people are buying other makes, placing even more demand on supply chains

themadvix

We have eight 390W panels - four on each side of the roof as we are east-west facing. Effectively they run as two separate arrays. As far as I’m aware they are ‘standard’ size - not sure there’s generally much variation in them. Have been impressed so far with how well they work not with direct sunlight - it was fairly foggy here yesterday - and even when the sun is on the other side of the house (the power tracks quite closely from both arrays). Mr MV has found the inverter installation manual online and discovered that it can do isolated battery power if set up correctly (separate consumer unit) when there are power outages, so we might look at getting that set up. (For those that might not realise, unless you have this, the inverter will cut the power if there’s a power cut so as not to be putting power into the grid where it could potentially harm workers trying to repair the lines - so without this set up, we’d be just as helpless in a power cut.)

 That makes sense about the battery, but I know shipping is a long way behind too- my sister’s co are just receiving their batteries that were ordered in April!

Karmacat

That isolated battery power sounds wonderful - I read a lot of guys online wittering how useless solar panels are in a power cut, good to know that that's been fixed.

I can't believe how much you managed to get done yesterday!  Hope you reward yourself with something really good today

QueenJess

Ooh - very jealous with the Solar panels. I would really love some but I don’t have the time to research and definitely don’t have the cash to do it right now either.

I hope you have a great weekend!