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British gas billsDon't ya just love gas bills. Had mine the other day, love the way they work it out, it's so simple to understand.
I used 43 units of gas, that's not a lot really i know but i don't have central heating so i don't use a lot, but anyway, 43 units times the price of the gas equals =???? Now hang on, this is where they start to lose me, it's not 43 units after all, although that's what it says on the bill, they have converted it to something called Kilowatt hours (kWh). Well why isn't my reading in Kilowatt hours then?, perhaps they can't make meter's that read Kilowatt hours, still no matter, all you do is times by 1. 0226400 (that's the volume conversion factor) then you times by 39. 2300 (that's the calorific value), bugger me there's even calorie's in gas...lol..., then all you do is divide by 3. 6 (that's the Kilowatt hour conversion factor), and that all totals to 479. 18 kWh (kilowatt hours) simple wasn't it?.
Right, now let us multiply it by the price of the kWh, now here in England we have 100 pence to the pound (£) but that would be a bit easy to work out so lets divide the pound (£) by one thousand and make the price 4. 959 pence per kWh,, much easier to work out now!!!. Now all you do is multiply that 479.18 (kWh) by the price (4.959 pence) and there you have it.... done.....!!! Oh hang on, VAT ( value added tax) has to be added to that, well that's an extra 5 % on top, you would have thought the government could have helped the gas company here by coming up with a figure like 4. 932565% vat or summit like that, surely they don't want to ruin all the hard work the gas company has done to confuse us?.....
Anyway I have worked out that if the gas company charged me 55 pence per gas unit used I would owe them £23.65 oh! plus the vat of course,, hang on that's 11 pence less than what they charged me,, OK then let's say they charged me 56 pence per unit of gas used, that would mean I owe them £24.08 oh! plus the vat of course, bugger it, now I've overpaid them by 32 pence. oh well close enough I would have thought.
I suppose there must be a reason that the bills are charged in this way, I do hope the reason ain't anything to do with the fact that the gas company hopes nobody can understand the flipping things and give up trying to work it out and just pay the bloody bill,, surely not?.. Suppose I shouldn't just get at the gas companies, electricity is almost as bad with their 16. 229 pence charges for the first X amount of kwh units used then 10. 306 pence for the rest of the kwh units,, but at least their meters are capable of reading Kilowatt hours. Petrol and diesel are the same as well come to think it, there is always a .9 of a pence added on the price of a litre and yet i have never seen point tens of a pence on the pump price meters,,,, what is the sense of a price with .9 of a pence added. there is no such monetary unit so it shouldn't be allowed, once again I suspect it is only there to disguise the high fuel prices and to confuse the consumer.
Oh well, at least I lost a few calories typing it all out so everyone could understand how it is worked out, and I do hope I have helped you understand your gas bill better now.....lol... Christmas songA nice Christmas song to sing along with:- click on the link in (Weird stuff) on the left. (Stop Media player before you click)...... Thanks Jim.. Wilkinsons pricingWrapping Christmas presents,
 well you start off with the best intentions intending to show all your family, relations and friends that you are the greatest Christmas present wrapper in the world but after you have wrapped about a dozen presents the novelty begins to wane. Gifts that are enclosed in Small boxes are the best to wrap, you can normally make a wrap to be proud of with them, but then comes the bigger boxes and unless you purchased the extra wide wrapping paper you have to sellotape two pieces together, that is when the sellotape decides to have a mind of it's own and stick all over the place leaving big creases in the wrap,, oh well it don't look to bad!,  and how many times have you forgotten to take the price tab off...lol... At this point I would like to thank Wilkinsons of Chatham for making sure that my wrapping took at least 1/2 an hour longer. When i first purchased the said article, which was nicely boxed and shrink wrapped,  the price label was stuck on the front of the box, (or so i thought) this was partly covered with a reduced price label which was an added bonus. Well when it came to the turn of said present to be wrapped I carefully removed the reduced price label, no problem, but then i find that the original price label is under the shrink wrap,  I carefully tried to slice the shrink wrap with a knife so that I could remove the label and then re-stick the shrink wrap back again, as soon as I tried that, the shrink wrap spilt in 1/2 a dozen directions  so I thought I would just remove the shrink wrap and just go with the nice box but first I had to remove the original price label, big label it was, circular and about 2 inches in diameter. the front of the box was one of those type that have a clear polythene window glued to the cardboard so that you can see the nicely displayed items inside, the lable was 1/2 on the box and 1/2 on the polythene,  I have decided that I would like to purchase some of this sticky stuff that they use to stick thier labels on with as when I get round to redecorating my kitchen it would save me having to drill holes to fix the cabinets to the wall, all I would have to do is smear the back of the cupboards with this glue, place them against the wall and nothing would shift them. Needless to say the cardboard box is in the bin totally wrecked by my attempts to remove the price label and the contents of the box have now had to be wrapped lumped together, totally naked, in their manufactured condition without all their dressing. Next time i think I will ask the cashiers to remove the price lables for me and see how they get on...lol... There, I feel better now !!!!. Rainham 84Rainham 84 continue their league winning streak (9 games without loss) with a 3-2 victory away from home to Swallows.
Match report entered in (Rainham 84 under 12's) Gold Wrapping Paper I received this e-mail from a very good friend and thought it was worth putting in a blog;; Very touching.
Thanks Terri. "Gold Wrapping Paper" The story goes that some time ago a mother punished her five year old daughter for wasting a roll of expensive gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and she became even more upset when the child used the gold paper to decorate a box to put under the Christmas tree. Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift box to her mother the next morning and then said, "This is for you, Momma." The mother was embarrassed by her earlier over reaction, but her anger flared again when she opened the box and found it was empty. She spoke to her daughter in a harsh manner. "Don't you know, young lady, when you give someone a present there's supposed to be something inside the package?" She had tears in her eyes and said, "Oh, Momma, it's not empty! I blew kisses into it until it was full." The mother was crushed. She fell on her knees and put her arms around her little girl, and she begged her Forgiveness for her thoughtless anger. An accident took the life of the child only a short time later, and it is told that the mother kept that gold box by her bed for all the years of her life. Whenever she was discouraged or faced difficult problems she would open the box and take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there. In a very real sense, each of us, as human beings, have been given a Golden box filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children, family, friends and GOD. There is no more precious possession anyone could hold. Life goes on.the 'lady friend' saga is over,, I have decided that, after so many let downs, it is not worth pursuing, over the last few months, after many an invite to go here and there the answer is nearly always yes, and yet when i arrive to take her, to wherever it is she has said she will go with me, there is always some excuse for not going. The excuses may be valid, but after so many negatives i will take the hint and leave her to her own devises. I have no regrets, i enjoyed our times together, but as they say 'life moves on'. |
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