BritManToo

Yeah, that's no problem. My inverter has been working perfectly for 2+ years now and survived 1x shorted out and 1x utility power going mad.

Yeah, then you waste the money you spent on the first battery. Really, I know what I'm doing (now), do not buy a small battery and expect to add on (successfully) later. Also make sure you aren't sold second hand batteries, about half the self builds I see are second hand (10yo+) batteries. Running with no battery at all is better than buying the wrong battery. PS. I have a 48v x 100ah battery (10yo+), it actually stores around 2Kwhr, useless for anything. Not connected as it drags down my bigger 48v x 200ah battery (10yo+) that stores around 5Kwhr.

Most installs take the electricity they need from the sources available, mine is set to SBU (solar, battery, utility). So it takes from Solar, then tops up from battery, and as a final resort mains. Get yourself at least a 10Kwhr battery ..... or you'll regret it later. This was my biggest mistake ....... not getting a big enough battery at the start. Adding more batteries later may not work, it didn't for me, and I ended up wasting 20kbht as the batteries didn't work well together.

Not enough battery, expanding later is often problematic. there's 280ah Lifpo4 batteries available at 1,700bht each now. 16 x 1700 = 27kbht, add the BMS at 3kbht and you get a 13.5Kwhr battery for 30kbht.

Solar electricity costs double coal electricity. More solar and less coal/oil will mean huge electricity price increases

In the west the elections get fixed at the ballot box. No need to disband the party later.

As a Marxist radical, I can definitely state, none of the people you mention want women to be property and land to be redistributed. In fact the closest politically to me appears to be the Taliban.

Not worth paying any extra NI if you're already near the maximum of £220/week. Which is probably why they wrote and said you can't pay any more.

Years before the new pension don't get you anything! Only the 8 years 2016-2023 can increase your pension entitlement. But obviously not get you more than the maximum new pension. I've edited the numbers in my previous post to reflect recent increases in the new pension

It's been 8 years since the new pension, each year costs around £1,000, adding £6/week for each year you pay, so for £8,000 you can buy an extra £ 50 pounds a week, or £2,000 pounds a year, getting you 8k back in 4 (ish) years. Or viewing it as an investment, a return of 20% a year. Obviously adding extra years won't get you more than the maximum new pension.

4 months before pension date, I phoned up using Skype (3 calls to 2 departments). Confirmed that only voluntary payments for missing years after 2015 made any difference, confirmed which 3 years maxed out my pension, got the payment code, paid by UK bank transfer, phoned back 10 days later to get a manual pension update. Pension paid on time. It all worked flawlessly!

I always liked the breakfast in Murphy's Irish Pub, and then we used to drink all afternoon at a restaurant on the pier near Murphy's Irish bar. This photo of the (Sea Side) restaurant overlooking a small fishing harbour (just around the corner of the beach from the Hilton). Evenings were spent at BintaBaht for the early happy hours, then a walk to the many small bars in Soi 80.

Computer say NO.

Took me 45 years of full NI contributions to make my full pension. 3 of which I had to purchase at the end, because of 'contracting out' reducing my entitlement.

The best English breakfast sausages I've found in Thailand are Prime Breakfast Thin. 169bht for 500gm (12 sausages). I'm buying them from Green's in Chiang Mai (free delivery to CM on 1,000bht order). If you want large sausages, the Prime Olde English sausages 169bht for 500gm (5 sausages) are just as good.

The new world order told the western governments to lower interest rates, they did, their currency value dropped.

Pound drop was to do with Labour lowering interest rates, nothing else.

Always!

Don't think I've ever stayed anywhere with a service charge.

If there's a service charge I don't eat there. It's up to the employer to pay a living wage for their staff, it's not my job to make up the difference.

Or even worse ........ 'what's that guy doing in the women's toilets (or the nurses changing rooms)'

Still no mention of what she did though. I can't even work out what a 'gender-critical' offense could be. Edit OK, I've found it, it's believing men are men, and should use the men's toilets, even if they choose to wear a dress to work. Sometimes called 'transphobic'.

No British immigrants here, we're all non immigrants. And if the UK was to offer me free housing and spending money, I'd go back in a flash. But I'm White/Christian/British so there's nothing for me (that I can afford) in the UK. And my wife isn't the right flavour of non-white, so they don't want her either.

There is no deep division in society. The government wants the immigrants, and the people don't want them.

Nah, they don't charge shoplifters for under £500 theft these days.