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In the UK 3G is being switched off first. 2G is remaining for some time (up to 2033 latest but maybe earlier, but certainly not as fast as 3G)

BT do (or did) provide a very basic mobile on demand when you go DV. I got one for a friend of mind who's not tech minded. It was very basic and very limited but did work to some extent, though of course you have to remember to keep it charged as you don't know when the next power cut will be. In the end she sent it back and could live with outages, though by that time I'd got her quite a good basic 2G phone which I prompt her to use every couple of months so she's ~proficient with its use.

Talking Pictures TV (Sky328, Freeview 082) Thursday 02May: 11am – The Hillman Minx in the 1960s Made in the 1960s an astounding road race featuring Sheila van Damm; former owner of The Windmill Theatre and female motor racing competitor. She must drive non-stop and not below 40mph for 20 days. No idea how good/bad this is but maybe worth programming the betamax.

Night Mail comes round quite often on Talking Pictures but tomorrow at 12:35 and 1pm (Sky328, Freeviw 082) they're showing Night Mail1 and a 50th anniversary of Night Mail, Night Mail 2. Not sure how good NM2 is as I've not seen it in ages.

The GWR dynamometer car became W7W after nationalisation, which has got me thinking, was there a W1W and if so, what?

It's all about click bait these days

The Polish crews on the Wolsztyn Experience used to use it a lot......

I just had another very good week (Mon-Sun) though that's about to change. Only bought approx £1.20 of energy but got stung for ~£4.40 standing charges. As mentioned before I get nothing for exports, so it's all about juggling solar and powerwall and PHEV charging for me. I also went from start of charging period 10Apr, to 20Apr only buying 30p worth of electric for the car*. Happy bunny me. Edit: *approx 190 miles for 30p

Denmark

Last week (Mon-Sun) was the first where standing charge was more than electricity I'd bought. Am not exporting, imports are 7.5p kWh on Octopus intelligent go, or free from solar with Tesla powerwall. It was quite sunny and I'd been using car less as I'd been ill, so by careful husbandry of charging car a bit at a time so as not to deplete powerwall too much, and no overnight car charging (powerwall makes its own mind up what to import overnight) managed to only buy £2.25 of electric all week for which I had the privilidge of paying £4.20 standing charge.

They walk among us

Hard to believe it's 13 years since the first run!

Bronwydd Show probably 1st June, the team aren't quite ready to publish details yet.