The UK government is planning for several days of organised blackouts this winter

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    watching TV!! Bloody luxury! :D:D We were all huddled round the wireless with no fire ! :D:D:D
     
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    Ah! but at least you get a short break from all those Scottish midges. That said, I think most of them must have migrated to Italy. Currently even covering ourselves with insect repellant , surrounding ourslves with Citronella tealights and using those plugin electrical gismos if we sit under the Loggia in the evening to drink and eat we get bitten to death by midges and mozzies. Paradise it ain't:(:(
     
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    I remember 'toddlers truce' with no TV stations broadcasting early evening and other times when there was nothing worth watching. It was then just the radio...I must have been about 4 or 5 pre school and I remember late morning lunchtimes and my mum preparing lunch and dinner in the kitchen with 'Workers Playtime' (coming live from some factory canteen somwhere) blaring out on the Radio. Sunday evenings with no telly 'til 8pm was 'Sing something simple'. I was then packed off to bed. Sunday dinner at 1pm prompt we always had 2 way family favourites from BFPO40 (later it became 3 and 4 way I think) It was followed by 'Round the Horn or might have been the 'Goon show' I think. Jeez!! the stuff you retain in memory from early childhood. As Blackadder said " The winters nights must have flown by!" NOT !!
     
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    Was The Clitheroe Kid on at about midday on Sundays?
     
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    I remember Jimmy Clitheroe but not sure what time his show was broadcast. Definitely NOT Sunday Lunchtimes though as it was always 2 way family favourites ... Jean Metcalfe and Cliff Mitchelmore hosting. It linked the Soldiers stationed in Germany post WW2 with family back in UK messages read interspersed with request for songs. I even remember the opening theme music... 'With a song in my Heart'.

    Read this just now on t'internet ....'Sundays was Family Favourites, The Billy Cotton Bandshow. These were always followed by a comedy series at Lunchtime. Programmes such as 'The Navy Lark' (Lesley Phillips). 'Hancocks Half Hour', 'Life with the Lyon's' and 'Beyond our Ken' (later to become 'Around the Horne') with the now folk legend, Kenneth Horne.
    You would NOT listen to any programme whilst eating Sunday Lunch though!'

    Err..... not strictly true... We usually had it on in the background. I remember Billy Cotton though Think he was on in teh evenings.'Wakey Wakey'!! Eventually on the TV too

    It was a different era... God I feel old!!
     
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    I seem to remember tea time on Saturdays after Grandstand.
     
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    There is currently a 9-12 months waiting list for solar installation. Which might be a little later for Winter...
     
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    Except for the old mainframes. But roughly 2% of global electricity usage is running datacentres now...
     
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    There is now, there wasn't when the crisis kicked off and nor would there be if the government had financially backed manufacturers to scale up
     
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    I thought he was going to say.... "is this the Kia for my photo op?"
     
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    Kia??
     
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    He did a photo op when chancellor to show he was a man of the people and understanding the boom in petrol prices. He took 5p a litre off petrol prices, which weren't really passed on, then stood cheerily for the cameras filling his car up. A small Kia.

    Pity it wasn't his car mind you.
     
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    Unfortunately, most of the components of solar systems are made in China and were impacted by the Chinese lockdowns earlier this year - and their installation of solar PV systems continues apace (China has 3x more generating capacity from solar than UK has in total). Scaling up might not have been possible.

    Insulation though, I'll give you - we should have done that but then again that would have shown that "Insulate Britain" were right...
     
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    LoL.. "3x solar generating capacity than total UK generating capability". Put that in context given that China is, population wise, 39x bigger than UK it is not really anything to boast about or criticise UK for. Plenty of things you can but this isn't a good example.
    EDIT... Forgot to add 43% UK energy now comes from renewables compared to 26% in China.
     
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