24 November - From balls to Box and Cocks
@tony talks bollards
As expected
the Vexatious Victor was quick to remind me of
the Sidcup bollard. It was
briefly covered here in 2021 and according to @tonyofsidcup’s latest message,
Bexley Council had wasted £3,600, as of the beginning of this year, on keeping the Hadlow Road Ball in not very good order.
It even has its own X Account.
Every time I read of Hadlow Road I remember my school friend Mick Hadlow who had
a fully operational Bren Gun in his bedroom. Whatever happened to that?
@tony, a former accountant, is perhaps more of a fan of Rachel Reeves than I am.
He is more upset by her blatant plagiarism than the CV amendments.
Note: I fully expect to be told off by @tony for the rude puns in the headlines. He usually reacts!
Mad Miliband
You may have read within the past 48 hours that our electricity supply situation
is on a knife edge so I was more than a little surprised to get this email from Octopus Energy
yesterday afternoon.
Any electricity used above average consumption between 7 and 9 this morning will
be free. Initially charged but then refunded. They have done it before and
whilst there is no way of checking their arithmetic it has always looked about right to me.
My average use in the early morning is pretty much zero because the battery
powers the house having been charged at cheap rate overnight.
Last night, because of today’s offer, I charged it only a little bit but right now I am making up for it.
On top of that the car is being charged (I will get about 70 free miles) and the immersion heater is on. I even
used the air fryer and kettle for a few minutes.
I managed to get the load up to 17 kilowatts (without using this computer) for a while which if left like that
would have cost £9·30 between 07:-00 and 09:00. I am not sure how this makes any sense but maybe Mad Miliband does.
According to Octopus my energy consumption puts me among the lowest 1% of consumers in this area. Despite running an EV! What are you doing with yours folks!?
Higher than usual because of the recent battery software problem.
It occurs to me that if anyone wishes to move over to Octopus and uses this link
https://share.octopus.energy/ebon-eel-467 Octopus will give you a £50 credit
and me the same which I can pass across to Dear Teresa for
her Bexley Box scheme
to help counteract the wicked actions of our two local MPs.
Nerds may wonder why my immersion heater is not taking the full three kilowatts, it is electronically regulated to
a level which the battery can sustain even when the household load is high.