When my smart meter was installed, it was years back and I was with British Gas who had a 'free electricity one day per weekend'. The smart meter then had two registers - the total leccy used overall, and the leccy used on the free tariff. I have subsequently changed supplier a couple of times - Sainsbury's -> Shell -> Octopus.
My smart meter was Smets1 (although firmware upgraded) and there were comms problems (somewhere) between my place and the supplier. I was told the issue was the smets1 meter - and I needed an upgrade to smets2 to fix the issue.
Anyway, I was upgraded in Jan and for three weeks plus, I couldn't see what energy I was using as the in home display had a problem showing the usage - and the usage wasn't appearing on the suppliers web or mobille apps. But then it started working. Grand I thought.
Then I got my first smets2 bill. It was double what I was expecting and over £500. Looking at the bill, they have now charged me based on the total leccy used reading - ie retrospectively charged me for the free leccy I got under the BG tariff. How long do you think this will take to rectify?
We had a walk in the woods on Sunday and, while my wife was peeling the youngest out of his muddy clothes back at the car, I was helping my older boy get even more muddy. We were messing about when I saw a furry lump in the mud and told him to keep away from it as it looked like a squashed rat. He quickly found a stick to poke it with and we realised it was actually an abandoned dog toy. I borrowed his stick to pick it up and suggested we find out how loud mummy can scream, which he agreed was a fun idea. She can scream very loud as it turns out. Of course we don't leave rubbish in the woods so I bagged up the offending flat rat toy to take home. On a whim I washed it off under the waterbutt tap to see how it looked underneath and it looked almost new. I decided to give it a proper wash up and see if my mum's spaniel would like it. After a good hand-wash it went through the wash with the kids' muddy clothes and came out looking like someone had laundered some roadkill. Even clean, fluffy and with two working squeakers it has all the charm of a steamrollered squirrel. Sadly though it's now the kids' favourite toy. They've called it Squishy and suggested it needs feeding up as it's rather thin Mid-cleanup photo below. I'll spare you the before pics...
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
He looks like a whizz in a tumble dryer would fluff him up @wild edges.
Apart form a brief slipper phase when we first got Rasta 16 years ago, our pair have never been into fluffy doggy toys but they do like their squeaky rubber piggies.
After a few unseasonablly warm days, it has turned cold again and is set to be very wet this week. Back to hibernating in my sewing room then.
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Apart form a brief slipper phase when we first got Rasta 16 years ago, our pair have never been into fluffy doggy toys but they do like their squeaky rubber piggies.
My collie would have gone crazy for a squeaky squirrel in his younger days. He was also very fond of those rubber pigs.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I walk my dog regularly around the local village green and I am always picking up "lost things". We have a net bag hanging on a post at the entrance where such treasure can be put for reclamation. Including human gloves, clothing such as sweatshirts currently, etc. Interestingly, recently I had a spring clean of my dog's toys and put them in the bag. Within 24 the whole lot had disappeared. At the moment his favourite toy is a disgusting-looking miniature squeaky space hopper he found, but it does have a loud squeak. Enough said. It is also very soft so he can pick it up easily, he is a flat-faced breed. I haven't the heart to take it away and bin it.
Our bin is always kept clean and dry. The bin men came early and have left it with the lid open. It has been raining for hours, and is still raining very very hard.
It is on our drive, so not in anybody's way. I really can't be bothered to put wellies on and get wet to have to empty it for now.
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Apart form a brief slipper phase when we first got Rasta 16 years ago, our pair have never been into fluffy doggy toys but they do like their squeaky rubber piggies.
After a few unseasonablly warm days, it has turned cold again and is set to be very wet this week. Back to hibernating in my sewing room then.
@wild edges it's a shame you couldn't capture the moment with your phone
Interestingly, recently I had a spring clean of my dog's toys and put them in the bag. Within 24 the whole lot had disappeared. At the moment his favourite toy is a disgusting-looking miniature squeaky space hopper he found, but it does have a loud squeak. Enough said. It is also very soft so he can pick it up easily, he is a flat-faced breed. I haven't the heart to take it away and bin it.
Our bin is always kept clean and dry.
The bin men came early and have left it with the lid open.
It has been raining for hours, and is still raining very very hard.
It is on our drive, so not in anybody's way.
I really can't be bothered to put wellies on and get wet to have to empty it for now.