My mother has this thing about heating bread or rolls. Before lunch, oven on, bread in. By the time it is lunch time the bread is usually dried out, the oven is almost ready for open-hearth furnace use, and - obviously - any unused bread is not fit for next meal.
I guess this uses a fair amount of gas and wastes bread.
The advertising headline savings of up to= =A3250/year are based on you currently being on a "standard" tarrif. Onc= e you have switched to a better one the year on year savings do become minimal. I check every now and again but it's rarely worth the effort in= switching.
But look crap. I've yet to see and LCD panel that doesn't suffer from restricted viewing angles or smearing when compared against a plasma.
For the wage slaves maybe but for freelancers, those working at home or with someone always home not a great difference.
I like that idea. Trouble is retirement is likely to be enforced when they take away my driving licence and the nearest shopping mall is 30+ miles away. Ah! When do you get a free bus pass?
Course, they're not actually free. Just another example of bribing us with our own money.
Probably age 75 if it carries on like now.
The price comparison sites let you select your current supplier and tariff. Then then list 'savings' over the year. They're always wrong.
Councils don't like them because they can't budget for them properly; they have to pay the bus co some amount for each journey. The way it's set up means the bus co gets to count how many journeys have been done and the council has to pay that amount.
And that means it's paid for out of our council tax; nothing to do with your income tax or NI.
A smart idea of Labour's: give away other people's money while making out that the largesse came from the Labour Govt.
I know that was a throwaway comment but...
Checked that out very recently - some sites say 60, but when you follow through to the councils (at least in England) there is likely to be a table showing bus pass age/birth date. I think (from memory - which is highly fallible) women of around 62 are currently becoming eligible.
However, if you have a medical reason, your GP can sign a form and you simply present it to the council bus pass people. They accept that without any further checking. (I did talk to them - that is what they said.)
Yes, that is true. Free at the point of use, though. In Scotland you get them at 60, and I got mine last year. After paying (and still paying) income tax and NI for more than forty years, I reckon I deserve it!
In London, the age you become eligible has been creeping up over the last few years. Much to the chagrin of some due for one.
They *could* be fairy low cost. Just restrict their use to outside rush hour, when there is plenty spare capacity.
That was 3 ex gfs ago.
Of course not. What, remove our free bus passes? See, the voting public just assumes that otherwise empty space on the bus is being usefully used. What a good idea, eh?
Along with the 50p tax rate, it was just another Labour ploy to f*ck up any incoming Tory Administration. You don't actually think Labour
*cares* about the poor, do you? They love to have them there as permanent voting fodder.
This government doesn't seem to be in a rush to remove them.
Similar to my experience, working at home doesn't make that much difference to the gas ?still the same nr of showers, and south facing windows are usually warm during the day, but electricity increased with
2-3 computers etc running all day.
Give them actual useage in kWHr rather than bill amounts and they are accurate, at least the times I've checked them. Case of GIGO... Of course you may not actually make that saving as your future useage is unknown and may be higher or lower than what you told them.
I thought they did that anyway? But as the only buses around here are almost exclusively "rush hour" it could be a bit self defeating. The other problem is getting down to town 2.5 miles away to catch the bus without a car. Free taxi pass? The school bus goes past the door but I doubt that the general pubic are allowed to use that these days, though it has a service number...
And doubles as a room heater.
Some of the Panasonic LCD sets are OK. Needs an IPS screen for wide viewing. My HP LP2475w IPS monitor is very good. Dells version of the same is OK too (ISTR early ones had a quirky fault for gaming).
Certainly noticed neither restricted viewing angles nor smearing on our LCD. Maybe someone else would? But am very aware of both on other display devices so thought I was fairly observant. Our previous one certainly used to smear. And the Sony we had for a few hours before packaging up and sending it back had crap viewing angles. And very low brightness.
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