Update

[lexin]

I’ve got the electricians in, and they’re banging and hammering like woah. They’re doing the last bit of work (or almost the last bit) of me having solar panels. I’m hoping that the said solar panels will reduce my electricity bill to something a bit more manageable.

The thing is, I’ve got savings, but with inflation running at 8%, my savings are being chipped away, and solar panels are an investment.

In other news

I’m preparing the D&D campaign “Princes of the Apocalypse” for my Sunday afternoon group. All the players have sworn backward and forwards that they have not read this campaign and will not do so until after we’ve completed it.

“Preparing” involves a bit more than reading it. I’m copying it (well, copy pasta quite a lot of the time) onto RealmWorks, and checking RealmWorks and the book against what Roll 20 have on their module.

I’ve found this necessary – when I prepped “Lost Mines of Phandelver”, I found they’d missed an NPC and a possible monster. The players would be stupid to try to take out a banshee at their level, but nobody said players when they get together can always be relied upon to be clever.

Comments

[watervole]

See what you mean about solar panels vs inflation.

I need to look again at my savings. I've got some invested in fossil-free funds and they're staying put, but I have some money in my bank account that's reserved for Oswin's school fees.
But by next year, it will have lost a LOT of value.

I need to look for a short term investment that pays better than my savings account....

[lexin]

Agreed. I should consider something other than Premium Bonds for what little I have of my savings remaining.

[watervole]

My investments appear to be falling, but more slowly than the rate of inflation. Which is something. So, outperforming my bank account...

[watervole]

Actually, that's nonsense. Forget it. IF they're falling, they're actually doing worse. But I expect them to pick up in the long term. I'll wait.