there is a golden rabbit in the room (let the dog see the rabbit)

'I went to fez without a diary. I wanted to lie in a hotel bed, in a strange place without the diary, to break the flow of self-examination, of the diary as mirror, as assurance, diary in place of talk... life passed in fez as I passed, leaving no trace, no shreds.' 

- anais nin, journals - volume two, june 1936, journey to fez april of that year. 

the process begins again

at the house in the wen an engineer from NONO has been. he has taken loads of photos of the company head/ main fuse. he will contact the appropriate team who will come and replace it (the metal cover, the asbestos insulation) and then the smart meter can (finally) be fitted. 

in the end it all passed off smoothly

but of course we really are no further forward with this than we were four years ago (or whenever it was). the last time this was all promised. horsemouth has been with this power company since april 2021 on the smart meter tariff (when they were promising to fit a smart meter soon).

but from april 2022 he was on their more expensive simpler energy plan (their post the ukraine war gas shock tariff) so having a smart meter would not necessarily have saved him any money. 

before that  the house was with another power company (BLUB) since july 2018. 

in any event soon enough horsemouth will give up the account 

he will submit his final reading and pass the task over to his housemates.  the amount left in the account will be handed back to his flatmates (about £72 each). horsemouth thinks the free government money from the ukraine war gas price shock has been spent for everyone. 

he thinks NONO will initially ask for a higher direct debit (and in any event it will probably be divided between three housemates rather than four). 

it's a bright and beautiful morning out in the wilds. next year horsemouth thinks fewer marrows. he will get only a handful of carrots this year. it looks like he will do well with the potatoes (but he can't really tell yet). 

horsemouth is trying to formulate his strategy 

as you know horsemouth wants the government money (the government is offering some money to help decarbonise the nation's social housing stock at least as far as getting the properties up to an EPC C). that's his focus at the minute. there may be other pots of government money but right now he's not interested in them until the communal endeavour has the first pot of government money. all the other pots can all be dealt with later (is horsemouth's opinion). 

there is a golden rabbit in the room. let the dog see the rabbit.