22 Foxhole East

So far kitchen cleaned and the lime drizzle cake baked and drizzled before 7am.

Surveys done - made £2.00 so far

List made for the stuff I want to achieve today.

We tried to go in DH's car yesterday, oh the surprise when it would not start (please note the sarcasm) it is 12 yrs old and a Renault. Nuff said. But it is a 7 seater and that is what we need, if only the poxy thing would work. So we are going to charge the battery and see if that is the problem. The battery is less than a year old. It is simply unreliable, which should be the strap line on all their advertising. Renault - Simply Unreliable. Or as the last tow man told me, what do you expect, it is a f- ing over- engineered French piece of merde. Ooh la la!

But it does mean we cannot go anywhere all together as my Nissan seats 5. Just in time for Half Term. Bliss.

We went over a speed bump in it, just after we bought it, and the dashboard just went dead. No idea how fast we were going, how much fuel was left, it was terrifying. It has electric sensors for everything that is non essential.

That and the emergency brake release being in the boot, when our drive sloped toward the road. So when the battery kept going flat, unless you had someone to sit in the car with their foot on the brake, you could not roll it or bump start it. Stupid thing. But provides endless laughs, usually from tow truck drivers as soon as I mention driving to Ireland..........

Might be because we are in a terrace, rather than a detached / semi detached. That and we have a hot water tank in the bathroom. 30 mins in the morning gives us hot water all day and 30 mins in the evening gives enough hot water for the supper dishes and a full deep bath. The washing machine is cold feed only and AA rated. The dryer is A+ rated.

The central heating goes on 10 minutes before the kids get up in the morning for half an hour and then it comes on again at 5pm until 9pm. No point heating the house when everyone is in bed under a nice thick duvet. I was a bit worried as DH is a serial +1 hour presser on the heating controls, and seems to think he needs to live in sauna conditions, but he works in a university which seems to be heated to a level where you would be comfortable if you came to work having forgotten your clothes.

I run around the house at breakfast time turning lights and computers off and again at bedtime turning ds chargers and laptops and lamps and god knows what else off. But I think I am doing alright if we can still be in credit in winter, when we use so much less in the Summer/Autumn months.