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Another Libre office user here.

Exactly. Pressing the reply button in the post quotes the post. The +quote button copies the post so you can multiple quote two or more posts when you hit a reply button.

In the UK it is against the law for merchants to charge extra for credit or debit card fees. (Even though the charges are only about 1/10th of those in the USA at around 0.3%). This also promotes the move to a cashless society...

Same here, I don’t attempt to calculate a percentage or anything.

We just back from a few days in Belgium and didn’t use any cash at all. I had 30 euros or so from previous trips which I took along. I have 3 credit cards in my Apple wallet so I set my foreign transaction free card as the default and used my watch to pay for everything. Restaurants and their...

Sorry for your loss Harllee, such a shock when that happens. My wife’s BIL died of PC a few years ago. Super fit guy, thin, never smoked, started feeling a little ill, was diagnosed with PC and a few months later he was gone.

This is always a tough one and my thoughts go out to the OP and her family. A few years ago my brother in law went through this and we decided that the best thing we could do was spend time and talk more with them. My sister is currently going through chemo now for stomach cancer and again I...

This is for the whole of the UK. For about 8 months we generate enough solar that we have net zero consumption for the house, excluding the EV. We have no AC and the water is heated on demand from a gas boiler. Over the course of a year we export about 40% of what we generate as the long...

Increasing numbers of EVs support V2L where the EV can have an extension cord into which you can plug regular appliances. It is aimed mostly at the camping community but if you had a power outage at home you could certainly plug in things like your fridge and freezer to stop food spoiling. Here...

We have the option of feeding back from our EV but would need a new charger. We do have solar battery storage so charge up every day and powers the house all day.

Exactly. The charger connects to the mains and delivers 30amps at 240v (7.2 kW) but when in eco+ mode it only delivers the excess solar power rather than export it to the grid. The snapshot above shows 3.1 kW which is less than half of what it would be charging at under normal conditions. I...

Not sure I understand the question.

My daughter has a MyEnergi Zappi charger that has an eco+ mode that uses only excess solar energy to charge her car, a VW id.3. She works from home so it is easy for her to do. I know someone here with a Tesla and also solar panels with a Tesla powerwall and they have a similar arrangement...

Thanks folks, we have decided to close this thread and discussion.

It used to be printed on the Medicare card itself up to around 2017 I believe.

Good idea. From what I’ve seen, the same test kits we buy in the UK have at least double the expiration time than in the USA. Every kit here has an issue and expiration date and is 2 years long.

I hadn’t really thought about it until reading this thread and realized that I’d never seen it here and then Fire’d mentioned it being illegal where he lives (France I think) so I looked it up. The vagrancy act of 1824 banned begging and it is still a crime today. You do see licensed folks...

Illegal here as well, I have never encountered it since moving back.

One of the big energy companies here are now offering a V2G tariff. Plug your EV in on an afternoon, such as when you come from work, and during the peak evening hours it will feed the grid discharging down to 20% and then charging up overnight to 80%. They have been trialling this for about 3...

Thanks Dory :greetings10:

I had my last tetanus booster a couple of years ago and no problem with injection site or feeling ill. I garden a lot and do lots of odd jobs so if I get a wound then I don’t worry about tetanus too much.

Thanks for this.

We’ll be taking delivery of a VW id.3 in April and I see that the latest version comes with lane change assist. For those of you with similar features may I ask how useful you find this? I am used to blind spot monitoring and getting warnings and nudges if I attempt to change lanes and there is...

Nissan recently announced that it will be making big price reductions over the next few years. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/25/nissan-of-electric-cars-evs?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Thanks for the interesting discussion. We are sure there will be many more opportunities to discuss this subject again, particularly if any similar bills make it out of committee.