I'm back in Nowty Towers after being away for 5 weeks, SWMBO + Cat are happy to have me back. I fecked up and forgot to turn the car charger on last night so I left for the 250 mile journey with 90% SOC. I arrived non stop with 10% left so a decent 4+ miles per kWh all on motorway driving.
All my systems, solar, home batteries, GSHP and A2A HP's ran themselves automatically giving constant hot water and heating and only off peak import. I gave up asking SWMBO for voltage, hot water and room temp readings after a few days and relied on her telling me if its too hot, too cold or no hot water, but all was fine.
My dads funeral was a few days ago, a simple small family affair with a county pub meal afterwards. My father worked for BAE Systems for 38 years and started as an aircraft fitter on the Canberra which was the UKs first jet powered bomber. He went to night school and progressed into project management and worked on the Lightning, the Jaguar and the Tornado. He was to take a role on the Typhoon but he chose to take a medical retirement before it flew. He did however find an old Tornado tail for the first Typhoon mockup after nobody could find a spare one. He spoke to the guys on the shop floor and that led to a warehouse manager who never threw anything away but was not too good at logging things.
After we returned to my mums house from the meal, I heard an aircraft overhead and it was a Typhoon flying in and out of the clouds. Not too uncommon because of the proximity to the BAE Warton Aerodrome but it made me shed a tear.
My mum noted the Typhoon sighting down in her diary.
