What did you buy today?

[Chris]

If you are not allready with them check out the "octopus go" tariff. Is just about to drop to 6.5p/kWh overnight(12:30-4:30 I think?). You need an EV to be on the tariff but the whole house use is at te cheap rate overnight.

We charge our house battery on the cheap rate and us that during the day. We very rarely end up using full price leccy. They do a refferal scheme as well.

Thanks, we are indeed already with Octopus and have the Intelligent Octopus Go tariff. It's great! When we had the previous EV it cost about £5 for 300 miles of range, which at current fuel prices is like... 20x cheaper than diesel.

If we were going to stay in this house for 10+ years I'd be very tempted by a solar setup as well.

 

[Grebby]

Thanks, we are indeed already with Octopus and have the Intelligent Octopus Go tariff. It's great! When we had the previous EV it cost about £5 for 300 miles of range, which at current fuel prices is like... 20x cheaper than diesel.

If we were going to stay in this house for 10+ years I'd be very tempted by a solar setup as well.

We have 16 panels on the roof and 9 kWhs of battery in the loft. It's getting to the time of year where we (on average) export more that we use. Plus we get paid more for the export than we do overnight rates.

 

[Woody girl]

A mini maglight still in box and working.
10 hanks of handspun undyed wool.
Only a tenner for both from the charity shop.
2 bags of compost and 2 of topsoil to pot up the potato bags.

 

[Keith_Beef]

Didn't go further than the back garden, hanging out clothes to dry, then bringing them in because of hail and rain, then hanging then out again...

But when my Pentacon 6 to canon ef adapter was delivered, I discovered that the lens that I recently bought is *not* a P6 mount, but what I now think is a type B Kiev mount... So I bought another adapter.

 

[TeeDee]

We have 16 panels on the roof and 9 kWhs of battery in the loft. It's getting to the time of year where we (on average) export more that we use. Plus we get paid more for the export than we do overnight rates.View attachment 102390

Its now thankfully where we seem to be ,or rather some of us with large enough mounting areas , reasonable calcs for Property U-values and the means of finance or grant to do so to have a definite strategy towards household energy sovereignity - a technological ability to generate and then store/utilise that energy.

Not sure how this can be applied to all of the UK housing stock with success but its a step in the right direction.

 

[Toddy]

Miyuki delica beads
I have a wee loom, and the weather's awful, so I'm contentedly indoors playing with crafts

 

[Pattree]

Tent.

Don’t love it.
Not sure I like it.

It will get me out while I bin the old back up tent and think what to do with the tipi.

 

[Keith_Beef]

Oh, so many things!

For my Mamiya 645 Pro, I picked up a couple of shoulder strap connectors that I'd commissioned from a saddler. Then in the afternoon I bought a n°3 macro ring, a cable release adapter, X2 teleconverter, a lens case and a cable.

Then I went to Atkinsons and bought a couple of kitchen knives.

Then I called in at a Korean shop that had arrived as if by magic... Spoke to the girl at the checkout... Said hello to her in Korean, asked of she had any makgeolli or baekseju, then went around the shop picking up a few bits here and there... It was like travelling back in time to when I lived in NJ and died quite a lot of food shopping in the Korean and Japanese grocery shops.

Then bought fish and chips for supper. Portions were far too generous. Two cod and small portions of chips, a fishcake (which is to say a proper Sheffield fishcake, not a rissole), and scraps... Mum and I managed to eat the cod, about two thirds of the chips, and the rest will be reheated in the oven tomorrow. So that will mean two full meals for two people, for £19.40, or £4.85 per meal.

 

[Chris]

If you are not allready with them check out the "octopus go" tariff. Is just about to drop to 6.5p/kWh overnight(12:30-4:30 I think?). You need an EV to be on the tariff but the whole house use is at te cheap rate overnight.

We charge our house battery on the cheap rate and us that during the day. We very rarely end up using full price leccy. They do a refferal scheme as well.

Just checked the email, in our area the overnight tariff is falling to 5.2p/kWh! £4.26 to charge an 82kWh car battery.

I might look at setup prices for a battery array for the house.

 

[chimpy leon]

Council tax.
…and with that concludes any other kind of buying for a while.

 

[Stew]

Just checked the email, in our area the overnight tariff is falling to 5.2p/kWh! £4.26 to charge an 82kWh car battery.

I might look at setup prices for a battery array for the house.

Definitely makes sense.

I would be hard pushed to decide between a standalone solar or a standalone battery array right now.

 

[Grebby]

Definitely makes sense.

I would be hard pushed to decide between a standalone solar or a standalone battery array right now.

I would go for as big a battery as you can. Get one that means you can run all day off the battery and charge it overnight. That way you only buy in cheap rate leccy.

 

[Mesquite]

My ticket for this years Bushmoot

 

[Nice65]

Fed up with the supermarket or butchers mince burgers, dropped an offer on this mincer and won it.

 

[Watch-keeper]

I bought this today, its for my brother in law I hope he likes it !!

 

[Nice65]

I bought this today, its for my brother in law I hope he likes it !!
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Well, if he doesn’t….

 

[Damascus]

New dremel, my last is on the wain only 35 years of hard use! A birthday present I don’t know about!!!

 

[Aristotle]

I bought a USAF surplus Propper ABU shirt. It has a good, pixelated, tiger stripe pattern, but was far too light grey. I over-dyed it Olive Green.

It came out quite well, and it looks good, although there is a clearly defined wide stripe on each arm that didn't take the dye well. It must have had some sort of treatment to maintain the creases.

 

[Keith_Beef]

A couple of days ago I ordered a second-hand Samyang 8mm fisheye lens from CEX. It was delivered about half an hour ago...

Its designed for APS-C sensors, and on a full-frame camera the image is a bit cropped, but I think this is going to be a lot of fun.

 

[bearbait]

It's not quite the 65-foot ocean-rated motor yacht that I had in mind when I clicked on "Buy Now". But, on the plus side, it did cost me several £million less.

I thought I'd put it all together to check it out and see before planning its maiden voyage.