limbo

This is a between time.

Buyer wants to buy but he can't.

Stuck in a chain.

Inastate agent wants 120 quid so our house can have an energy badge like a deep freeze. This is not a good badge either, about as energy efficient as a 5 bar open electric heater. According to a system designed for modern houses.

For goodness sakes, this is an 1800's house and it falls a wee bit short of modern standards. Unless of course you run it like an 1800's house and run the fire virtually continuously, keeping these houses warm is not the hard bit, it's getting them warm that uses energy.

Then again we have huge log stoves that protect the house against damp by shifting vast quantities of air as it heats and in actuality does not cost anything like what it might if we used oil as our main source of heat. We did for a while but could not afford it now.

In fact we probably use as much on heating as it costs to run a modern town house just the system is different.

You can even count in the exercise with the chainsaw and axe as a healthy lifestyle positive.

Much smaller footprint in Carbon than burning Russian gas too.

Went out today to try and get a battery for my new transit minibus and spent all day driving round for nothing.

But we did find a great new pub for lunch.

And somehow we had to divert to what might be our new home on the way back.

R