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LincolnHearts

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  1. Porteous is an animal. One of his 'tackles' will end a career. Good chance it will be his own.
  2. Just watched a bloke at pump 3 put £10 of diesel in his van. Where's he going? Pump 1?
  3. I’m not one for bragging about the expensive places I visit, but today I went to the petrol station.
  4. Got an email from OVO (SSE) today detailing the price rises from April the 1st. Electric up from 21.40p to 29.10p per unit, but the one that I can't get my head around is the standing charge, which goes from 28.32p per day to a whopping 50.53p per day. The standing charge reckons it keeps me connected to the network, pays for maintenance and meters to be read. Fingers crossed there are some meter readers in for inflation-busting pay rises
  5. I'd see what's what on a quiet day (usage wise if that makes any sense) If you're home alone and you've only got the radio, lighting and/or a PC running, you shouldn't be using a massive amount of power. Looking at the flashing pulse of your meter, it'll flash like a sex-pest on a trolley dash in Thailand/South Yorkshire when you switch on high consumption appliances like the tumble-dryer or the kettle. Like I say, mistakes on the accuracy of meter are very, very rare, but I did come across many of examples of them being installed/replaced incorrectly, where a peak and off peak supply (economy 7) were somehow rolled into one when the old timers were removed/ripped out and poor b*****ds were unwittingly knocking £35-£40 a week into an electric pre-payment meter 15-20 years ago..
  6. As long as you have a garden, they will plant you a money tree.
  7. When I was an installer, we used to get some 'Check Meter' jobs where a newly calibrated meter was linked to the current one for a week or so to see that they were in unison. Very, very rarely was a meter wrong. Think they still replace every 10 years to re-calibrate and ensure accuracy.
  8. It's getting scary now. They make 'billions' in profit annually and always hide behind the re-investment and rising wholesale prices chestnut.
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