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7 Jan 2023
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Charles K

🎊 What are your hopes and fears for 2023?

So my hopes and fears for 2023, for me and my daughter, hopefully things are now on track with our disabilities and our mental health, which is a good thing. My fears is the energy crisis. At the moment, I'm having remedial work done on an hour hour block of flat, and we're getting some EWI, which will make the buildings a lot cooler in the summer and a lot warmer in the winter. But we're not getting that till hopefully later this year, so that will help. But not quite yet. My fears only really are the energy prices, the gas prices. It's just ridiculous. I'm doing about 25, 30 pound a week just on gas on a prepaid meter, and I'm not even using my oven. I just can't afford to run the oven. It's just ridiculous. And I'm coming up a fixed plan on my electricity. So my electricity is going to double from about 60 to 70 a month to 120 to 140 a month, which definitely going to struggle on that one.

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Changing Realities (2023), Charles K. https://changingrealities.org/e/MyZmz (07 Jan 2023)
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