Now which one will I have first...

Cautiously, I snuck the lens out through the briefly opened bedroom window... The bluetits are swarming over the garden today, feeding on the pyracanthas and the holly, as well as nipping bits off the bamboo and the pond marginals. This fellow threw a lovely little bit of contrasting colour into the pyracanthas bush!

I overlooked the factoid yesterday that my solar roof is now ten years old! I've bored on about it for a whole decade in my website, but while my intention was to show it was a reasonable financial venture as well as 'green', the changes in government ideology and the tariffs mean I have no idea how "profitable" they are now as a new installation. Mine has paid for itself and now has ten more years of pure profit ahead of it.

Tangentially, I note today that the government have halted their investigations into domestic hydrogen use for home heating. I begin to suspect like COPout28 the problems of future energy needs and climate change will be pushed down the road a bit more, and certainly into the next administration.

It's not easy... I see queries from residents in narrow and congested terrace housing asking how they are to recharge their electric vehicles post-ICE. A suggestion that street lighting columns might be utilised overlooked the cable size and current carrying capacity of streetlighting supplies. If we can't get hydrogen into homes I doubt we can readily get it into cars...

Not that I see a future for personally owned large people transporters (ie cars). The road network was largely developed for horse and cart out here and even the national infrastructure was largely designed when the population was twenty million less than it will be soon. Electric or petrol or nuclear... there's no room for more cars. The future is, of course, two wheeled. Enclosed two wheeled in the winter!  ;-)

Stay tuned for more wildly improbable future predictions, like world peace...