Thread 1 - Lifeboat Muster Point for TalkExiles

[Kucinghitam]

Gather here all ye refugees from the foundering ship of JTT, if ye be in need of "How the heck do I format my post?" "Why can't I edit my typos?" "What do those acronyms mean?" and most importantly, "Where is everybody that I used to know?"

Or just to chat randomly.

Lovely, Splatts!

OMG I've just discovered the Am I Being Unreasonable threads! Why wasn't I told? There's hours of vicarious entertainment to be had there!

Oh yes, Kerebus, they are great! “I’m watching” half a dozen already.

We did have an AIBU watching (and discussing)thread in the other place!

I missed that.Damn.

And like a lot of our threads, it was good at magpie-ing in on the highlights!

Some excellent photos of our furry overlords.

That's some excellent dog-lollage there, splatts

Ha excellent hounds there Spallts.

Though it does remind of the time I took Madam (half greyhound) round to visit a friend with a whole greyhound, and by the time we had got the hounds comfy in their beds there was no more room in the living room and we mere humans had to decamp to the kitchen.

Hello folks. I aleady checked in on the WAGSBR thread, but thought I'd say hello on here too. Username as close as I could get.

I've just discovered the Am I Being Unreasonable threads!

It was AIBU that drew me in here initially a year or so ago. There's some good stuff in there.

Bugger, meant to make that top line in italics...

Kerebus

OMG I've just discovered the Am I Being Unreasonable threads! Why wasn't I told? There's hours of vicarious entertainment to be had there!

Really? There were loads of links in the old place. There's even a thread for it!

I have just been invited to sign up to EDFs energy demand shift trial.

Lots of nerdy stats to look forward to. I might start a thread.

What does the trial involve, Gin?

Basically there are 19 days where we will be contacted and asked to reduce our energy use in certain time periods (usually when demand is very high). We get paid £4 for every KwH we shift during that period compared to our normal usage.

That sounds interesting. Any idea how you'll reduce your usage?

I'm not sure how much we use, we should check it out.

I got that from EDF too, Gin, and signed up. I don't think we'll succeed, as the hours when they want us to avoid using washing machines/dishwashers/whatever (4 to 7 pm, I think) are time when I wouldn't use them anyway.

I think we will be the same TBH. I am mainly signed up for nerd reasons as I worked on smart meter policy a few years ago and enabling demand shift was one of the key business cases for the roll out.

I've seen a couple of threads on here from people doing that. Helpfully, I can't remember where. I think theybwere somewhere general - AIBU or Chat, rather than somewhere like the Money folder.

The drawback seems to be that the incentive is higher if your normal usage is profligate.

Maybe here - www.mumsnet.com/talk/cost_of_living ?

A sensible.place to look or start one, but not where I've seen the ones I'm thinking of. I haven't ventured that far yet.

Thinking about it, AIBU or Chat would be better as they get more traffic and posting in Cost of Living might not get many replies.

Hmm yes, I was wondering where to post my tiny bit of Cost of Living news, that Bulb have just reduced my estimated payment slightly.

(Was £153 before all the badness and went up to £183 in October. But meanwhile we'd replaced the boiler, installed a Hive and sharpened up our temperature management. So just two months later, Bulb have emailed to say that they're dropping the payment to £173. Also my trusty spreadsheet has confirmed that we are using less gas and electricity, year-on-year.)

It's not worth starting a thread about.

I did enjoy reading people's nerdy energy management in the old place :(