Month: May 2015

Not overly happy with the result but, not the end of the world (I hope)

Am finally getting my finances back on track, right on schedule so I am happy with that. It means I will soon be able to travel somewhere and that has to be a good thing as I do so miss travelling places … I’ll settle for the UK at this rate! I might be able to and I may have some money soon but, not for anything big, I’ll leave those in the bucket list for now.

I need to spend some more social time with friends, not seen Chris or Tyler for a long while, actually, still waiting for that coffee with Tyler since last year, guess you’re still busy with all the Christmas stuff  😉

Avengers, Age of Ultron, sort of awesome and the tie in with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is a lovely touch as well. Amazingly pleased to discover it has been renewed for a further season as has Agent Carter.

Sadly, Constantine has been officially cancelled now so we’ve seen the last of it. It’s a shame as it held promise. Main problem with it was that the main character just wasn’t likeable in any way. He is a chain smoking drunk, doesn’t go down too well that.

I’ve been having a clear out around the house. With Sean & Daisy now finally on the council waiting list I don’t intend waiting until they go to downsize. Went through the cutlery, a lot of knives missing and not one complete set of anything!

That was me a year ago, I need to get back to that look. I’ve got myself out of shape or, more into a different shape, a much larger one! I looked good a year ago!

I was a stone lighter, that’s 14 pounds to those foreign types or 6.3kgs and I felt good too (or so I was told)  😉

Am putting the negatives behind me now and moving forward with a new optimism that just about everything will now be so much better

With regard to travel, I need to replace some cups and saucers, I know what I want but I can’t get it here but can get it in France so a few cheap days there thanks to Tesco vouchers might be called for. I need to thin out my collection of glassware as well. It sits in the cupboard month after month not touched at all.

I finally charged up the batteries in my camera though one is missing so I need to buy a new one. Actually, I can’t recall whether or not I had 3 or 4 as either would make sense because the camera can take one but I have an accessory which takes two.

Anne is doing really well as Zoey’s new Personal Assistant. Am really pleased about that.

 

I still cannot make my mind up whether to use it or not, maybe I can but just stupidly lock it down so that no one ever apart from my friends can see anything anywhere I post.

The last issue was because I posted to the local newspaper I subscribe to on their Facebook page and, if I do that, anyone can see it, it’s ‘public’ so, probably best not post anything to any of them!

Telsa Motors, the US company which makes electric cars, has unveiled a new battery it says can power homes using solar panels.

I’ve read into this and I’m really not convinced. It seems that if the more expensive unit is charged up fully it would power a washing machine for one wash. It could probably only power the average home for about 30-60 minutes and that’s pushing it!

I can’t see how anyone in the developed world could see any return on the product, the costs currently outweigh the gains. Of course, if the price came down to a few hundred then, perhaps it’s worth buying a group of battery packs to go along with your acre of solar panels!

Source: Could battery-powered homes be the future? – BBC News