As it is, since my sole income stream is USD, every time I look at the exchange rate I wince. I wonder if when Brexit proper hits the pound will drop a bit? Or not.... sigh.
Oh, well. It's STILL better than being in SoCal! No fires, no mud. This week, for instance, it's been like living in a snow globe. The snow falls, then blows back up (or sideways) past our windows (we're a few floors up). There were foxes out back, the other morning, when I was up too early and had a cup of tea in the kitchen. So now I can say I've seen real foxes, too!
And the gas bill (we have gas heating) for the last quarter that I have been dreading came in at 45 Pounds total for the three months. So, since we know it was usually about 11 pounds a month just for the hot water before we turned on the heating in December, that means heating this place (and having hot water) is about 30-ish pounds a month when it's brutally cold out. I'm happy with that. The electric had been running around 30 pounds each month over the summer, but the bill was a lot higher this time. I'm assuming that's because I ran space heaters in Oct & Nov, thinking I didn't want to put the whole-house boiler on to save money, and the ridiculous amount of time we had the non-LED Christmas lights on. It's still a novelty to me to think that whole-house heating is cheaper than using space heaters room-by-room, etc., but that appears to be the case!
