Dudley Schools Closure

Track of the day - Singalong - Les Dawson

Breaking News

There is currently no snow in the West Midlands but I'm reliably informed that Dudley Education Department has announced the closure of all Dudley schools tomorrow,
just in case it snows.

We have somehow managed to use £16 worth of electricity in a week.
This came as a bit of a shock because we don't have an electric cooker and all our lightbulbs have been of the energy efficient variety for the last fifteen years. The immersion heater hasn't been on for two years, we don't have any electric fires or a microwave oven so where it's all going beats me.
It can't all be the computer.
So I decided to order an Electrisave. Not because it saves electricity but because it tells you how much electricity is currently being consumed.
The plan is to install it and then run round the house pulling plugs to find out which bit of kit is guilty of guzzling too much electricity.

I found a review on Ciao by BNibbles and found it so entertaining that I rushed off to buy an Electrisave from the Ethical Superstore. An Ethical Superstore? How could I resist that?

Chinese Year of the Pig

I imagine that the Chinese Year of the Pig will cause all sorts of problems for Dudley Council's political correctness department.
If they don't acknowledge it they'll upset their Chinese residents and if they do they risk upsetting the crackpot in the Finance Department who complained about the pig stress busters.