Well, we've just set the central heating to come on for two hours in the morning (from 0430-0630) as it was 10C in the bathroom this morning at 0530. That's a little too bracing when you get out of the shower.
We won't set it to come on in the evening for at least another month, but with outside temperatures now down to 2C overnight the cold months are definitely just around the corner.
Oh, and oil prices are all over the price at the moment. We had 1,000 litres of heating kerosene delivered today - the cheapest quote was 28.9 pence a litre (plus VAT) while the most expensive was 34.9 pence a litre. That's about £60 difference on the 1,000 litres.
I was quite pleased as we still had about 150 litres left in the tank and we last had a delivery at the end of February of 600 litres. As we had 150 litres then, that means we've used just 600 litres in seven months (85 litres a month).
A lot of that would have been used through March, April and part of May for central heating and hot water. After that, the boiler would only run on the most overcast of days when our solar hot water wasn't in action.
Oh, and we set our thermostats to 16C.
