We have the power
Monday, October 1st, 2007 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanThe blokes from British Gas, who, in this deregulated world now provide our electricity, arrived at about 9.45 this morning and we are now no longer on a key meter. Indeed not, no. We now have a proper, grown up electricity meter, which means that we shouldn't run out of power at regular and annoyingly timed intervals (provided we pay the proper, grown up bill that we will now receive).
My, my, but haven't electricity meters moved on? I haven't seen a new one since, well since forever, as far as I can recall. In every house that I've lived in and had to worry about the electricity or gas, the meters have been large Bakelite monsters with reassuringly analogue number rollers on them (I'm sure there's a more elegant term, but it eludes me for now). They have also generally been the size of a car battery. Larger if they have required feeding with 50p or £1 coins.
Our new meter, on the other hand, is excitingly digital and about the same size as a late 1970s calculator and that seems largely so that it can mount a reassuringly large and friendly LCD display.
I have just been around the house and reset all the clocks. I can now forget how to do that as we are on a proper, adult supply now. Hurrah!
I now have an entire day with little to nothing planned. I might go and doze for a bit. Or I may not. The world is my lobster.
My, my, but haven't electricity meters moved on? I haven't seen a new one since, well since forever, as far as I can recall. In every house that I've lived in and had to worry about the electricity or gas, the meters have been large Bakelite monsters with reassuringly analogue number rollers on them (I'm sure there's a more elegant term, but it eludes me for now). They have also generally been the size of a car battery. Larger if they have required feeding with 50p or £1 coins.
Our new meter, on the other hand, is excitingly digital and about the same size as a late 1970s calculator and that seems largely so that it can mount a reassuringly large and friendly LCD display.
I have just been around the house and reset all the clocks. I can now forget how to do that as we are on a proper, adult supply now. Hurrah!
I now have an entire day with little to nothing planned. I might go and doze for a bit. Or I may not. The world is my lobster.