Make your own electricity

After some negotiations and a really cheap deal, I’ve just taken a deep breath and got solar panels on the roof. It was amazingly quick. A van arrived off the 9.45 am boat with three guys who bolted together a quick scaffolding, swarmed up it and fixed the panels. The whole job was done by 3.30 pm, and a neat new meter in the cupboard is blinking its green light to record the electricity going through it.

The system works on any level of light, so the dear little thing is at it from dawn to dusk, even in mid-winter. The Westminster government, of course, is busy snipping bits off the Feed In Tariff, but it still makes some income as well as juice. Can’t be bad.