OT: can corroborate this, it's ridiculous my electricity was the same and they called it an exotic meter. I've moved house and no more storage heaters and only £50pm for electricity. Although I do still have to get oil for the heater. One day I'll get gas haha.We're on the old THTC system that was put in throughout the Highlands years ago. It stands for Total Heating with Total Control, we have two separate electricity meters on two separate rates, one has all the storage heaters/panel heaters on it and the other has everything else. I can turn the heating on or off at the wall and set the storage heaters to boost us in the morning or the evening, but other than that, SSE has control of that circuit and they choose when power is supplied to it depending on the forecast for our area. We get between 5 and 12 hours a day of power to it. The other circuit is unrestricted, but it's charged at a higher rate than their standard rate, while the heating circuit is supposed to be at a very low rate, but it was 7.65p/kwh when we first moved here 13 years ago and is now up to 16.73p/kwh for the heating circuit, 20.6p/kwh for the other circuit and 27.49p per day for the standing charge.
Until recently it was impossible to switch away from without getting your circuits rewired because no other company would touch the two meter system, but they've recently managed to overcome that, so I can have a look at switching - but they're ending support for these meters soon and will be swapping everyone over to a single meter system, so I might as well hold on and get them to do the work (plus we're hoping to do a lot of work on our house early next year, including getting an air source heat pump and full central heating fitted), although goodness knows what they'll switch me to, as I'm in an area where smart meters don't work (no signal). The meter at my holiday cottage down the road is an old key meter I've been trying to get swapped out for three years, it broke over Christmas and I'm now getting free electricity there while they try and figure out what to do. They do have a small stock of old meters, but their protocols say I can't have one of those unless the power goes off and five months later, the power still hasn't gone off! According to a friendly SSE engineer I spoke to, I've done my bit in informing them of the problem in the first place and all they can legally bill me for is the daily standing charge when they finally sort it out.
Sorry, off-topic rant about ancient Highland heating systems over...
Just had a look at the article, it was for world baking day. That picture of the dry as sticks peach drizzle cake hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha
LiterallyLol I can't believe that even with the corporate might and moolah of del Monte backing her, the best they can do is local newspapers.
So she's asking for PayPal donations on her Twitter directly now?!
It's the new Twitter Tip Jar feature. She enabled it VERY quickly a couple of weeks ago because Jack wants free moneySo she's asking for PayPal donations on her Twitter directly now?!
The mistakes are throughout the article too. Apparently you turn the oven to 180 o C, I assume she means 180°c.Lol I can't believe that even with the corporate might and moolah of del Monte backing her, the best they can do is local newspapers.
Only Jack would get given a piano and still act hard done by
I think it shows how very middle class she is that she wants all furniture that she has bought. I like to think of my furniture as “inherited”That is a LOT of stuff she’s been given!
I have a table and chairs (second hand when my mum bought them in the 80s), a bedside table that was my mother’s when she was a child, then passed on to me (both extensively painted and repainted as they’ve been carted around). Oh and I used to have an old bed and a now long dead futon, bought for me, from when I properly moved out for the last time.
IT IS COMPLETELY NORMAL TO HAVE PASS ME DOWNS!
Unless you’re a massive old money snob who looks down on people who have sort out their own furniture.
I managed to buy a pine double bed and a microwave when I bought my first flat around 35 years ago. My parents gave me their old conservatory furniture and bought me a washer dryer as a present. I was a Cub Leader in the church scout group: another leader rescued an MFI chest of drawers from a skip for me and fixed it up with spare screws for coffin handles, and the church gave me the cooker when they sold off a church hall. I was a university graduate just starting out and I was bloody grateful for the lot. Who the hell expects to move into a house full of top quality furniture and appliances? (My jaw drops when I see some wedding list expectations thoughHow old was she when she wrote this book? I had loads of second hand furniture given to me (gratefully) right up until my early 30s (not a piano though) We decked out pretty much our entire house in hand me downs and sub par furniture we bought from an auction (total cost £1000) and lived with the majority of that until we were close to 40. We were both working professionals. I am literally this week smashing up 2 god awful pine sets of drawers, that never opened or closed properly, we got in that auction haul 20+ years ago. I’m guessing she was in her mid 20s at this stage? Ffs, check your privilege bitch! Also stop “perching” on the chest you twat, you has a sofa someone gave you!
Ummmmm..... I did. But only because my aunt was moving into a smaller modern flat from her tenement, I was the only one left in the family who could play, and as students we rented an absolutely ginormous flat at the back of a suburban mansion where the landing was the size of a London pied a terre. It was bought by my great-grandfather in Victorian times and now lives in my spare bedroom as there's no room anywhere else.Also its extremely privileged to be given a PIANO ffs. Most people make do with a keyboard
Thank you, kind Frau...my ears may never recover, but it’s made me, Mrs. B and Bellend The Eldest roar with laughter
Oh I don't begrudge anyone being given one! It's just the way Jack spins it as if she's been hard done by for being given one rather than bought one, when for many owning one would not be accessible.Ummmmm..... I did. But only because my aunt was moving into a smaller modern flat from her tenement, I was the only one left in the family who could play, and as students we rented an absolutely ginormous flat at the back of a suburban mansion where the landing was the size of a London pied a terre. It was bought by my great-grandfather in Victorian times and now lives in my spare bedroom as there's no room anywhere else.
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