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I woke up this morning to frost outside and a very definite chill in the air.  Inside, the central heating's chugging away, and I keep imagining my energy bill going up, up, up, but what can you do?  A family member's just had a heat pump and solar panels installed at his home, and it'll be interesting to see how low his energy bills go in the winter months ahead.  I honestly don't understand why our government doesn't launch a huge investment programme across the country, insulating homes and installing solar panels wherever possible.  I know it'd cost a fortune, but it'd be good for the nation's health & well being.  Whether that's pensioners shivering in cold, damp homes, or poorer families not having enough money to eat well or pay childcare costs as they're struggling with huge energy bills.   Anyway, enough of that.  I've been carrying on with various crafty projects.   My 'colour study' efforts are continuing.  So far I...

  Monday morning and after at least a week of grey dreary skies we've finally got a sunny day.  It's amazing what that does for our collective mood, isn't it?  I've spent a lot of the weekend happily - and sometimes irritably - going down various rabbit holes.  You see, the Find my Past website had free access for those two days, so I was merrily building a family tree and scouring old newspaper articles for mention of long-gone family members.  It was enjoyable, but also frustrating when you hit a brick wall and can't get further than a couple of generations ago.  I can find endless records for the Pughs, Dunkleys, Thompsons, Arnolds, etc but can I find my Keyte ancestors?  Their name's liable to be mis-spelt in old records, so I'm looking up Kites and Kytes too.  Anyway, I decided to buy myself a month's access to Ancestry as they were offering an initial month for a tenner.  I just need to remember to cancel before it auto-renews in early ...