[heero_yuy]

Fortunately our electricity and gas usage is low enough to be able to pay quarterly. Of recent months we've been bearing down on any "vampire" appliances and saving where possible: Washing machine at 30C, only boiling just enough in the kettle, media server is only on when actually being used or building ratio, electric heating only where absolutely necessary, etc.

We have two freezers at the moment so I'm running down the contents of the upright one as it's the least efficient so it can be turned off.

This electricity quarter is actually £80 less than the last even though the cost per unit and standing charge has gone up significantly.