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Your neighbour is lucky, it takes only 2.5 kilos to make a liter of oil. Hope his garden has surveillance arrangements…
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Actually there is another patch of them down the road & they are not so well protected. I tried the Ancient Moutarde - it's rather better than the insipid Dijon stuff but not quite up to Colman's. |
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A bit of the history of Dijon mustard:
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I love this thread. Where else could you learn such a variety of useless information. Dijon Mustard now!
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Perhaps we should make it a hot topic?
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I was sure it's a boiled egg. Ah well life is full of little disappointments.
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Whilst at the Classic I bumped into an old mate who helped me when I raced a MG Metro. We used his garage to build the engine and prepare the car for racing. Back in the eighties his father died, leaving, among other things, his Healey Tickford, which at the time needed a full restoration. Terry carried out the restoration and completed it in 1993. While doing that he researched the cars built by Healey and received a letter from a lady who recalled her father owning a Tickford and competing with it in the Monte Carlo Rally. The registration of her father's car was ONK 633.
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Thanks John, I'll let him know.
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Great story, Peter, and a lovely car. Always liked the Healey sports saloons.
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Just sent the final readings for my Gas and 'leccy use before autumn arrives along with revised "Cap" (Political Dunces for the use of?) next month.
My supplier suggested, as they are obliged to do iirc, that I check ut the tariffs available to me. The current "Flex" tariff is forecast, at today's rates, to cost us about £3100 for the next 12 months. The alternative "Fixed" price for 12 months is estimated at £8200. Presumably the "Flex" tarriff with the new quarterly adjustments will result in a similar cost for the year. Talking to one of SiL's yesterday. He runs a fairly significant bakery business supplying major grocery names. Their current Gas and electricity costs, some of which are still subject to a fixed price deal from back in the old days, are about £1.2 million currently. They estimate that next year the costs, if nothing dramatic happens, will be over £5M. Maybe 6M. Add in the cost of wheat and other materials and they think the price of bread products is about to double. Before taking the retailer's overheads into account. Around here there are reports of butchers and (small) bakers shutting up shop. No surprise since many such businesses have probably been on life support for the duration of the pandemic as well. But what about candlestick makers? Can they find a way to make their products pay as people seek lower costs for light and heat? What can one cook with a heat pump? There must be some opportunities somewhere ... |
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But the whole idea is to take a lot more money from the people , and it also hides the obscene amounts of subsidies being paid to renewable energy companies . E G , the London array wind farm , in 2020 produced energy worth £20 million , and was paid an extra £66 million in subsidies . The higher costs will , they hope ,cut the total electricity use to try to reduce all of the Blackouts that are coming from their insane green net zero policy . https://thecritic.co.uk/british-ener...-horror-story/ |
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These types of extreme results and fluctuations have almost always arrived with decisions made by The Madness of Crowds after initial "guidance" from their masters. It occurred to me about a year ago that the "strike price" for the Hinckley Point Nuclear project was starting to look like very good value compared to wholesale market prices. Which was, I think, what Boris might have been clumsily trying to suggest with his kettle buying analogy. Had he understood better than he seems to I'm sure he could have produced a slightly less stupid illustration. Of course, there is always the possibility that "extreme events" will trigger a clause, whether that clause be in the contract or in some other area of political machinations, that will result in the good work of project price setting being undone in some way. The next few months have the potential to be some of the most "interesting" in my lifetime. |
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The real price for Hinckley C , updated last month , is £113 per MWh . Compared to some of the Offshore wind farms of which there are many which are paid £187 per MWh. But up to 2021 , the cost of coal or gas generation was running at around £30 per MWh. So , closing a lot of the coal and gas plants , and putting up carbon taxes on the rest , has led to huge increases in the cost of energy and almost certain widescale power cuts for the future . https://netzerowatch.us4.list-manage...d&e=4961da7cb1 |
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January 2019: £1,137 April 2019: £1,254 October 2019: £1,179 April 2020: £1,162 October 2020: £1,042 April 2021: £1,138 October 2021: £1,277 April 2022: £1,971 October 2022: £3,549. Yes - that increase at the start of 2021 is really noticeable. Quote:
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“Policy Costs” which mainly includes the green levies and the other things like social schemes. It is summarized here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001bl03 And of course investing in something that doesn’t require importing is a good thing long term. Without considering the overall benefit of not burning stuff. Helping keep the vulnerable warm in the winter is good too. And let’s return to the dig at the media covering all this. Fortunately we have this though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cr...dern_magazine) |
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https://electricalreview.co.uk/2021/...due-to-brexit/
This link shows prices rising through 2021 , but of course , they blame Brexit . In a way , that has a fraction of truth as the UK left the EU ETS at the end of 2020 and started their own ETS , but with much higher unit costs . This led to something like 25 odd companies closing down in 2021 as they had promised to supply customers at previous prices , and the increase in generation cost meant that they went out of business . I have an item from Bloomberg showing how the generation cost had been steady for the previous 10 years or more , but showed large rises through 2021 , but I can,t seem to load it . As I said though , the media wont seem to tell the truth , and lots of green propaganda will try to blame everything else , but massive increases in electricity costs will hit everybody . And a little dig at the greens , increases from this coming October will make EVs more expensive on milage costs than an ICE car . |
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The media won’t tell the truth! Got it.
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Funnily enough , just read this item .https://www.express.co.uk/comment/ex...sive-Putin-gas
At last someone has started to tell the truth . Of course , some will say that it is not the most reliable source , but they probably read the Guardian or listen to the BBC. So their sense of reality is not worth even considering . |
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