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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Photo Voltaic panels Hosta?
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Obelixx said:
    Photo Voltaic panels Hosta?
    If I could afford them, I would love to have them.
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    No good deals around?  We took a bank loan as they're cheap at the mo and it will be paid back in 10 years at about the cost of our old leccy bill and no more oil needed for the CH hot water tank and they will produce for our lifetime and more.......
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    At my age, a  10 year bank loan sounds like a lifetime commitment.
    Devon.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    They tried leaving it back in, I think 1968/9 I know my son was a baby, everyone complained and they never did it again.
    makes no difference to me, only in the fact that I had been putting the light on in the mornings, now I won’t have to for a while. 
    I love the early evenings, curtains drawn some candles burning, very cosy. 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Not everyone gets up when it's still dark, but we're all up when it gets dark at night. so more folk would save by lighter evenings.
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Hosta - you're only 27!  And healthy!  Why so pessimistic?

    Agree about light evenings being good but we'd still need lights and heat at the start of the day so it balances out.   I don't see what's to be gained by changing and Scotland and the Isles will still have short daylight hours in mid winter. 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Not pessimistic, just realistic. A 10 year loan would take me to 66.Not many of my family have lived much beyond 70
    Devon.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I have to say I prefer GMT at this point in the year because I have early starts many days and I find getting up in the dark worse than a shorter afternoon. 

    Same. I like things this way around. It was nice getting up an hour early this morning and having an extra hour potching about before work. It's killed my evening walks off in the week but I'm lucky that I can swap to lunchtime instead
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    A little sideline. 
    Why do we "go back" less than 2 months before the shortest day, yet it's over 3 months after it that we " go forward"? Surely going forward before that would harm nobody and help many?
    I've never understood why and nobody has ever explained it.
    Devon.
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