a naval battle and a discursion on game theory

 'everything at a halt. bad irregular schedule..' - franz kafka, diaries, 15th february 1915.

looks like horsemouth will mostly be filling this in in the morning. he'll leave a note here to remind himself to go and get the recycling bin. 

yesterday the heating oil was delivered (1000L) he hopes that is enough oil (but not too much oil) to take them into summer (when heating oil prices tend to be cheaper). the main thing to avoid is running out in cold weather (that would suck).  yesterday he also went for a walk on the common and delivered some eggs. 

the black cat came up and visited (horsemouth tried to get out to offer it a saucer of milk but he was too slow). as usual horsemouth tried to celebrate st.valentine's day as let's kill captain cook day. 

we have entered penitential lent (based on jesus's 40 day fast in the wilderness when he was tempted by the devil). 

ok horsemouth will turn off the computer. maybe some smart thoughts will occur to him in the morning. night night. 

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it's the morning. no sign of any smart thoughts. 

the coffee is on its way. horsemouth has finished the spoilers. it ends with a naval battle and a discursion on game theory.  he finished watching after the flood - a passable but hurried crime thriller where drainage and water run off was important. 

today is the anniversary of the recording of stellar regions by john coltrane in 1967. within a week he will be back in the studio with just the drummer rashied ali to effectively re-record it (on the track venus on interstellar space is a re-recording of stellar regions and was originally titled dream chant in the session log). 

the great british insulation swindle

horsemouth spent the morning subscribing to ofgem news  and constructing a table of communal endeavour house eligibility for the government's now renamed ECO+ help with insulation scheme. to be eligible for the great british insulation scheme (general group) your home must have an energy performance certificate (EPC) rating of D-G  (12 properties in the communal endeavour), and within Council Tax bands A-D (10 properties in the communal endeavour). the intersection of these two sets is 7 properties (one of which is horsemouth's very own homestead so he banged in an online application and we shall see). 

the scheme would require the residents of the house to contact their supplier (but OVO for instance offer to do it whether you are a customer of theirs or not). there is an online form to submit - due to demand it can take up to 15 weeks to get a reply. if eligible, OVO offer one insulation upgrade (typically of either cavity wall or loft insulation) and you’ll typically need to pay a contribution towards the install.

there's a way though (to similar results) for people in receipt of benefits.

the communal endeavour could  apply to the innovation and carbon emissions reduction fund of the . energy redress scheme  but this is a longer, more complicated process and would only work for one of the communal endeavour's properties.