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Anyone cracked the Enigma code yet.
Dame Doon and I spent two hours of concentrated effort the other day and seem to be not much wiser.

7.5% increace tied over 18 months looks to be our best option.
I don't think there is any chance of prices going down.
Payable to British Gas in a village that does not have any gas.
Wonder what my grandfather would have made of it.

Heavy snow in Aboyne....turn the boiler up!!
 
Doon frae Troon said:
Anyone cracked the Enigma code yet.
Dame Doon and I spent two hours of concentrated effort the other day and seem to be not much wiser.

7.5% increace tied over 18 months looks to be our best option.
I don't think there is any chance of prices going down.
Payable to British Gas in a village that does not have any gas.
Wonder what my grandfather would have made of it.

Heavy snow in Aboyne....turn the boiler up!!
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I changed supplier recently and went for a price freeze for 18 months.Little chance prices will go down.It's scary how much you can spend per annum on heat and light isn't it?!:mad:
 
Locked in untill Dec 2014 with SSE..got a cheaper rate and they gave me £50 credit and maybe getting a refund once bill comes in end of Nov. But stilll mega ££££ . £1100 combined a year..!
 
Invest in solar or a wind turbine! If you produce more than you use, it will get fed back into the grid and you will get money back! It's obviously a long term investment before you would break even, but worth looking at?
 
I was on the Isle of Wight last week and I was amazed how many houses had solar energy. I am not convinced that is the answer as it is such a long pay back time scale. If it was so good we would be seeing comercial fields of solar panals as in some areas of the USA.
We pay £1,000 pa for oil and £600 pa for electric for a six room bungalow. Seems to be about average.
Mind you we now get £300 of that back thanks to that nice Mr Blair.
 
if you live in an older property solid fuel is the way to go,warmth and hot water and you can run your central heating from them all for the cost of some logs,doest have to be inside the house you can buy ones that go outside if your afraid of smells and dust.
 
Dodger said:
I changed supplier recently and went for a price freeze for 18 months.Little chance prices will go down.It's scary how much you can spend per annum on heat and light isn't it?!:mad:
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We did the same in July, edf blue was the cheapest and come with an 18 month price freeze!:thup:
 
Like many others I just stayed with the same suppliers year after year... Now I just feed my details into the comparison sites and swap to the one showing as the best current deal... Surprisingly the various sites usually flag up the same results... Only problem could be that a better deal could be just around the corner but thats the chance you take...
 
Lots of our neighbours have log burners and swear by them, we live on the edge of the Gallaway Forest so logs are pretty cheap up here. Many have turned log piles into an art form.
 
The fly in the ointment is the Posh Boys bright new plan to nationalise electric prices.

I seem to get the same feeling about this government as I did in the final months of Thatcher.
They seem to have a 'think tank' of advisors who have been instructed to come up ideas that will make us popular ......no matter how unworkable they are.
 
Rooter said:
Invest in solar or a wind turbine! If you produce more than you use, it will get fed back into the grid and you will get money back! It's obviously a long term investment before you would break even, but worth looking at?
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as an old sparky maybe im forgetting something , but how can you feed back into the grid
 
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