I have had my updated energy bills, along with the rest of the country, I am suddenly paying a whole lot more for my gas and electricity. This time last year I was only paying about £30 a month in DD, I did ask them to put it up, but they did not, now it will be a whooping £170 a month. So over £2000 a year. If you consider that most pensioners are on about £9000 a year, that is close to a quarter of their income. It is not sustainable. Once upon a time when I had a lodger, it was an income, now it increases my outgoings and just covers their cost. So here it feels bleak, on the other hand I am not facing down a whole Russian army. So even bleaker news from abroad is shutting out the bleak news here.
However, two nice things have happened recently, first I had a vague idea for a picture, and have been brave enough to put it up on Grayson Perry's Facebook Art Group, it is only a little sketch but I thought it would resonate and to my delight so far has had over 80 likes. The most attention anything I have done recently.
And through my volunteering with the Harmony Gardens in Cheshunt with Wyld Edges, I have been interviewed, photographed and even appeared in a twitter feed. Think that is a first.
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