Come again another day (but not tomorrow).
As you will have gathered, it was a wet day. Thankfully we didn’t need to drive out to Brookfield for the Saturday morning class because Stewart had cancelled it last night because there were only four of us were showing an interest. Instead, we drove to Stirling in the horrible drizzly rain and filled a trolley in Waitrose. We had hoped that the rain was localized and the rain clouds would lift when we left Cumbersheugh and we could walk into Stirling town for a coffee, but it was not to be. The clouds followed us all the way to Stirling and then all the way back. The rain got lighter later in the day, but only for a short time. It’s raining heavily now.
It was so dismal that I didn’t even want to go over to St Mo’s to get some photos, so today’s PoD came from a table top setup in the back bedroom. In fact it was more than a table that was holding up the subject. The table had a drawing board with a paint pot on top, but that wasn’t tall enough, so I added a couple of thick books. Still not high enough. Maybe one more book would do the trick, and it did … just. Sitting on top was an upsided down empty plant pot and the contents of the pot were balanced on top of this Tower of Babel. I really should take a photo of my constructions for table top photos. They are a bit like icebergs in that the bit you see is only around a tenth of the final structcture. The photo is a collection of basil seedlings that never really managed to get beyond the seedling stage. I’ve changed the compost and watered them with plant food, but I now believe there just isn’t enough light these dull days in November. They need to be grown in summer.
While I was on this gardening theme I gave my two chilli plants a fairly severe pruning. Last year I cut them down by about 25%. This year it was more that 50%. I hope that might encourage some growth and bring us some more chillies next year, all being well.
Scamp has been in a long term battle with British Gas who don’t seem to be able to send us a bill. She eventually took the matter to the Energy Ombudsman and uploaded our case details and interactions with BG to the Ombudsman. On Thursday we received the reply from BG through the Ombudsman’s office. Some truths and a lot of half truths from them. Surprisingly, on Thursday we also received our first bill from BG for a year! Now isn’t that a coincidence, however that bill only covers the outstanding amount up until June. They have admitted there is a fault in ‘The Flow‘ which we assume is the flow of information from our smart meter to their headquarters. They also admit that they now know where the flow stops, but don’t seem to have any idea of how to fix the problem. Today we sent our reply to the Ombudsman pointing out the half truths in their story. We await the outcome with bated breath!
Dinner tonight was a veggie lasagne from Waitrose. I could almost agree to being vegetarian if the food was all as tasty as that.
No plans for tomorrow, except maybe to get a CO2 alarm somewhere, probably a real B&Q.