Living the Good Life - mortgage free and living in line with our values

beanielou

Well done. 

Greying_Pilgrim

Well done tmv - both on growing/preserving 'award winning' produce, and for scoring free food! 

Is the sweetcorn dhansak recipe the R'ford one?  

Greying X

themadvix

Thanks all! Love congratulations for being the only entrant 🤪

Yes, is that one GP. Yum!

 This free electricity malarkey is tiring! Apple pie, jam tarts, bread granola and Dorset apple cake muffins all prepped/in the oven. Mr MV has hoovered throughout and I’m about to have a shower (in between kitchen timers). Car is charging too, obviously, as are various other things.

beanielou

I have managed a load of washing. A shower & various charging. May even pop heating on for the last 15 minutes. 

themadvix

beanielou said:

I have managed a load of washing. A shower & various charging. May even pop heating on for the last 15 minutes. 

Must be chillier with you Beanie, though I know you like it warm - it’s definitely not heating weather here!

greenbee

Agile gave me three hours of negative pricing, but the solar has been generating vast amounts, so I'm now back to exporting again despite still having another 40 minutes of negative prices. Still, I did some laundry, ran the DW, did some cooking (not much, as there wasn't much to do), boiled the kettle a few times (bicarb down the sink/basin/bath/shower traps), heated the water, and filled the battery. I've only managed to use 5.95kWh today of import, which has cost me -14p. But a lot of stuff that needed doing is at least out of the way. Mind you, gardening that needed doing isn't out of the way... 

Cheery_Daff

We missed it all as we weren't here! Most vexing (but I'm so tired today I likely wouldn't have done much anyway 😂)

themadvix

@greenbee can you not pause discharge while the electricity is free?

greenbee

I'd have to physically turn the inverter off which is a massive faff - I can't do it from the app. I set the battery to charge, which means even if it's full the house will pull from the grid rather than battery - but when I'm generating 9kWh of solar it's quite hard to use it all - let alone more - when I don't need heating! Given the negative pricing was pretty low, I wasn't overly bothered as I can make more from the solar export than the import, but want to try to do the right thing by a. using the excess in the grid and b. not exporting more solar than I need to when there will be excess. 

It's frustrating that while myenergi's chargers work with Intelligent Go, their batteries don't work with Intelligent Flux. But I guess it's complicated!

beanielou

themadvix said:

beanielou said:

I have managed a load of washing. A shower & various charging. May even pop heating on for the last 15 minutes. 

Must be chillier with you Beanie, though I know you like it warm - it’s definitely not heating weather here!

More to dry my pillowcases. Oops.