Only in Plymouth............ https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/plymouth-man-riding-inflatable-swan-7814469
Sadly not only in Plymouth notdistant. There are berks wherever you go unfortunately. Everytime though somebody else has to risk something to get them out of whatever they have got into. There must be a temptation to just shrug shoulders and look the other way at times.
NOTDISTANT....sorry I'm shouting........I'm having a dim moment Can you please tell me HOW......my energy bills go soaring over £3,000 a year because of spiralling costs without me hardly using any energy....Yet just ONE energy company can make nine billion £'s profit in only THREE months and others are doing similar. SO why is it possible for them to be dripping billions every quarter....if the cost of energy is so high.....how can they be making excessive profit....there is a third side to this triangle that I'm not grasping obviously.
There's a long answer and a short answer. The short one is that it's not a triangle Plym, it's straightforward linear supply and demand. The energy companies are coining it at the moment but that's capitalism and there are times when they do badly in a very volatile market and nobody cares. During COVID they were paying people to take oil away. We hear very little about their long-run average profitability and nothing at all on what sort of return on investment they make on the huge asset base they've had to pay for in order to make those profits, Where there is a triangle, the three points are: Poor strategic decisions on energy supply sources by successive UK governments. OPEC's reluctance to increase supply as the world came out of COVID. Putin's war.
I'm none the wiser after that answer. My smart meter (that I didn't want)....notched up £7.50 yesterday....and today it is already showing £6.05 at 1630hrs. Mrs Plym needs heat in the morning to get started for the day....before her medication kicks in......so two hours heating between 8am and 10pm both days....electric oven one hour last night... one bath only.....minimal lighting....nothing else....yet over £13 spent.....okay in the summer months no heating....but the weather is mild for mid-November....what happens when it gets cold. When I get up in the morning before 7am....the meter is already showing nearly £2. Still don't see how £9 billion profit in three months....for just one company....shows how energy is costing that much.
Here's Shell's CSCI for the year to Dec 2021. The most striking figure in it is the $21.5 billion LOSS they made in 2020. Nobody suggested a subsidy then did they? Shareholders funds are $200 billion and within total debt is about $80 billion of bank loans etc, which also need a return in the form of interest etc. That makes the best part of $300 billion of Other People's Money in Shell, including a big slug of our pension funds no doubt. Current levels of profit are exceptional, unsustainable and indeed excessive. There's also a lot of risk, as witnessed by the huge loss in 2020. High energy costs aren't bearable for consumers but that's not Shell's fault. It's the fault of the UK Government for not creating secure energy supplies, OPEC and Putin.
Security lights outside property? Fridge, freezer, bedside clock, possible wifi connection on standby, kettle, telephone plugged into mains for landline. Just a few suggestions that all cost to run. What Tarriff and have you checked. There is never nothing else in this modern era.
Energy usage is all about heat. Heating, cooking, laundry, washing, tumble driers, dish washers. Make sure the machines are only used when full, perhaps use the oven to cook today’s dinner and tomorrow’s at the same time. Shower in pairs. Well perhaps we’re a bit late in life for that last one. I have a constant battle here trying to persuade people that me leaving a 5 watt (or less) LED lamp on because it looks nice is nothing compared to running a sink of hot water to wash two glasses. It’s just simple physics.
Don't remind me about parking notDistant. Parked yesterday in Orpington....used my mobile...did all the necessary steps....and had to be back to the car by 1306hrs....didn't receive a 10 minute warning....oh oh. Returned to the car....and guess what....a parking ticket....checked it out later with my son...and it seems I didn't press certain buttons to turn on or off certain elements. I now know to check my account to make sure the payment has happened.....I now know why I used to see people loitering near their car checking their mobiles long after I had popped money in the machine and gone off to the shops. £60 fine....pay within 14 days and it's £30.....made my day that did.
Utter chaos here tonight. I was out this morning and when I came back along Hyde Park Road at about 1pm, all traffic was being turned up Mannamead Road ie Mutley Plain was closed. Not a problem for me as I wanted to go that way but It’s now nearly 6 and the feds have got half the city on lockdown. It’s ludicrous. Obviously there’s been a fatality and I understand that must be investigated but if traffic was being turned up Mannamead Road at 1pm, why’s it been closed all afternoon when the accident clearly happened on Mutley Plain? She went out to get paint for the kitchen at about 4pm and can’t get home!
Plymouth Live ....reporting car crash on Mutley Plain....a man taken to hospital after a car crash at 12.40pm.....Mannamead Road remains closed following the collision. The casualty was a pedestrian and taken to Derriford Hospital.
Your probably not the oldest BC. I'll be 84 before the end of March 2023......I was 6 months old when Hitler threw his toys out of his pram in 1939. Alexandra Maternity Nursing Home Devonport........closed in 1983.
The Royal Mail are asking the Government if it can stop its letter deliveries on Saturdays. They are trying to turn around a business that has lost £219 million in the last six months. They need new leadership....there postmen/women are just plain scruffy....some show no sign of being employed by the Royal Mail by the way they dress. Many seem to be just plain macho wearing shorts 12 months of the year.....what's that all about. Their union have been having a series of strikes recently....and are talking of continuing for the next 6 months. How do you tell if they're on strike or not....it's just not noticeable ?
That's because almost nothing comes in the form of a letter nowadays. I get maybe 25 a year plus household Christmas cards I suppose. It's all about parcels and the couriers have that sewn up because they are much efficient. I have to say our post-people are lovely and they do move quickly... hence I imagine the shorts. It's hard work.
Who the feck are you the dress police? My son in law is a postie and he works long hours. Have you ever been a postie or are you just pontificating as per usual about something you don't know about. The boss of Royal Mail gets an annual salary of £543K and was handed a bonus of £142K last year. His overall package with perks was £753K. Posties have the same bills to pay as nurses and teachers who always get a mention sympathetically. Of course they shouldn't get any extra pay to pay for all the increased bills etc because they don't comply with your standards of appearance. Just for info the son in law wears the regulation Royal Mail shirt and trousers and he even cleans his shoes and has a hair cut and bath regularly.
Popped into The Hyde Park for a lunchtime drink yesterday. There’s a small bouquet of flowers and a note outside indicating the gentleman involved in the accident has passed away.
I've often thought that pub is a car crash waiting to happen given it's location. Stagger out of there having imbibed a couple and you have no choice but to cross a busy road.
