a plan to decarbonise all houses

phew. so no news. well there is news. (is there?)

it was about 2 years ago horsemouth was getting the EPC rating for his house (it was a D with a score of 65). a whole consortium sized thing was about to take off (but then it didn't). now finally it looks like the communal endeavour may have, by the end of the month, a plan  to decarbonise all its houses.

they may not have all the money but they will have a plan. and once they have a plan the haggling can commence. 

two years ago horsemouth was having discussions about decarbonisation and fuel poverty and insulating housing while the temperature outside lifted up to nearly 40C.   

but this isn't the news horsemouth was thinking of.

three years ago (the end of this month) horsemouth was getting the goodbye email from his boss (one of the better ones) and, the day before, the goodbye email from the office (bye bye gosia, bye bye lucy too).

since then he has lived on his redundancy cheque, a small works pension (beer money essentially), and advance on that pension (that made it smaller and, crucially, increase more slowly, probably a bad move), the interest on his savings and, in the final analysis, his savings themselves.  ah well and yet he lives. 

this month analogous to january (a monday the 1st) and to april too. 

ok maybe there isn't any news. 

he went for a quick walk on the common (and saw a deer - he thinks). he also fell over in the mud (not so clever). 

today (as is coming up) - the journey of the eggs and then the taking the bin down the drive. perhaps a walk into the village and back. horsemouth will plant out more of the runner beans (and possibly do some weeding and hoeing and watering  - tomorrow is allegedly a grey day but with no rain). 

it's a beautiful morning here but horsemouth has to make a phonecall (and he won't be happy until he has done it). he's in the little moment of sun before the sky turns grey. 

next week horsemouth and his mum are on the abbey rota.  

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ok he's done his phonecall. (this means another phonecall). but now it means he can return to worrying about other things. 

he worked some of his way through the gallagher index calculation for the unrepresentativeness of parliamentary elections. it's a funny beastie. now because the difference in the % of people voting for a party and the % of eventual seats in the parliament is squared parties that get a small percentage of the vote and few seats have very little impact on the eventual score. plaid, snp, dup, the lib-dems are almost perfectly represented their % of the vote translated almost perfectly into their % of seats. 

but that is not the case with the other parties.

reform (for instance) got 0.77% of the seats in parliament but 14.3% of the vote, their under-representation is 13.53, this squared is 182 but this is much less than the  29.5% over-representation of labour (which squared is getting on for a whopping 900). similarly with the under-representation of the greens (6,18% so squared about 37) and (whisper it) the tories (5.1% so squared about 26). 

thus the major cause of the high gallagher index score is the over-representation of labour, the under representation of  reform, the greens and the conservatives has a considerably smaller effect on the figure. 

in an idealised two (major) party system the maximum gallagher index score would seem to be about 50 but should be much smaller