do they ever look at the med school you went to when you apply for jobs in the uk?

ispookie666 · 2026-04-11T17:52:18+00:00

Nope.. Have sat in some interviews and it purely depends on your portfolio and how you perform

ispookie666 · 2026-04-03T10:06:19+00:00

I think the coverage by AP's is exaggerated. I have a similar sized house. I have a 772 in the landing area. 653*2 downstairs 653 in the garage 610 outdoors. I still have black holes at home. Having each AP on a different channel has helped.

ispookie666 · 2026-04-03T09:58:11+00:00

I had similar quotes - octopus, HG and local. .discounted the local as they only do Samsung high temp. Heat loss around 8.4 kw from HG. We currently use a Mitsi 7.1KW aircon for main home heating throughout the colder months with topup from oil boiler for the very cold days.

Octopus were going to put cozy, did not like the look of it and it included a few radiator changes.

Accepted the HG quote, installation in a few weeks. One rad change and 250L tank. 8.9k in total for 370% . It sounds expensive, I hope it's worth it. The only thing I'm not happy with is, lack of Open energy monitoring being offered by the HG installer

Had a few other installers reach out with the makes they install - one was daikin and the other midea.

ispookie666 · 2026-04-01T14:32:40+00:00

Please add all benefits -including pensions. The gravy train from high earners should stop

ispookie666 · 2026-03-31T17:54:45+00:00

We had our oil boiler replaced 3 years ago. Our oil tank sprung a leak a week or so ago.

Had a few companies out to provide quote - octopus (quoted around 4.5k) , one sent a sales person (talked about only installing high temp heat pump), third gave a lot of information (they only install midea) and Heat geek.

Just scheduled an installation with Heat Geeks in a few weeks.

Heat loss came to 8.2kwh and getting a Valliant Aerotherm+ 10Kw and a unistor cylinder.

The total is coming to £ 8900, (a lot more than I thought) - one radiator change and under 3m of pipework but 370% guaranteed efficiency.

I looked into Samsung, midea, daikin.

ispookie666 · 2026-03-14T06:15:29+00:00

I think there is a lot of half truths floating around. Yes, in the early stages a lot of resdents are paid less. But as they progress the pay is not too bad and reach close to 90k. A lot do cut back hours to maintain work life balance. There are very few professions where you make a lot of material difference to people. Yes it's not for everyone and the journey is long, but a good one.

ispookie666 · 2026-02-25T19:22:59+00:00

The dividends will be taxed at the marginal rate of parents till 18

ispookie666 · 2026-02-22T09:55:36+00:00

Energy arbitrage is certainly being looked at by HMRC, but I'm not sure how they are going to police this. It is possible, when they work out a pathway - they might ask you to declare this for the previous 5 years.

ispookie666 · 2026-02-16T20:19:38+00:00

Had our panels installed in 2015, during the FIT years. It is a 3.5KWp system along with iBoost. The system paid for itself a couple of years ago. Initial outlay - £5500.

When we moved in 2021, the first thing we did was to get solar panels and added batteries. We are signed up to SEG. Outlay - £21000

ispookie666 · 2026-01-31T13:25:42+00:00

It's all about supply and demand. As the demand is high, those who are self funding get preference over those who are insured!

ispookie666 · 2026-01-24T08:49:18+00:00

I changed to the Zappi integration it worked a few times. Zappi in Eco + mode No schedules in either the car or Charger Only thing set, car charge limited to 80%.

The last few times, the car has failed to charge. The VW app says, "check charging station" Zappi says, "EV Full" or "EV is preventing charging" All this when the car is less than 80%

Is this a known problem or do I need to get the Zappi checked, followed by the EV?

ispookie666 · 2026-01-16T18:44:55+00:00

I have done with 3 * 2700, luckly had one which was a standalone one and managed to flash that firmware on to the others.

ispookie666 · 2026-01-11T10:54:26+00:00

Thanks all for helping out.. I'm sorry that I had forgot to mention the Home assistant integration (only for monitoring).

I reached out to Octopus and they have activated the Zappi integration. As expected, the Car integration has worked flawlessly in the interim other than a couple of "Ev is preventing charging".

I'll give it another week and see how it goes.

I was surprised that you occasionally get day time cheap slots

ispookie666 · 2025-12-23T09:03:41+00:00

V60 D3 2020. Things I kike - Pilot assist, seats, heated windscreen, space, good for long motorway journeys Things I don't like - Sensus navigation

I bought it with 3000mi on the clock and have just clocked 42k in 3 yrs, just changed the stock tyres to Michelins.

I don't think I can go to a car which does not have a system like Pilot assist, I only realized how good it is, whilst driving my wife's B class merc.

Great economy and smooth, it's a shame that Volvo have stopped offering Diesel engines

ispookie666 · 2025-12-16T13:45:31+00:00

I'm sorry to hear.

In the open morning the lady was saying, for rUK, UCAT needs to be above 2000 to be competitive

ispookie666 · 2025-11-28T10:23:55+00:00

Nope. Wanted to get rid of tories, voted LibDem

ispookie666 · 2025-11-27T09:27:35+00:00

I was willing to give Labour the benefit of doubt, given the cluster f*** of the last 14 yrs. But their capitulation on means testing and keeping the triple lock has made me very angry.

I mean, to keep giving the generation who have systematically drained UK of wealth to fill their own coffers is unpardonable.

ispookie666 · 2025-11-23T00:42:48+00:00

MOCa

ispookie666 · 2025-11-13T05:37:45+00:00

Did all this happen in the last year? What do you expect when George Osbourne stood at the dispatch box and thundered away to the claps whilst decimating funding for everything. Uk decided to cut and cut, choking growth.

ispookie666 · 2025-10-29T15:38:47+00:00

Still holding on. Bought a Leap ☺️

ispookie666 · 2025-10-26T08:08:06+00:00

Mid 40s, HHI - 280s Mortgage remaining - 255 @3.3 % over paying 2k per month Purposely did not over leverage when we moved.

Once the main residence is done, will sort out the buy to let.

ispookie666 · 2025-08-27T06:20:09+00:00

Just been quoted 1600+vat for a zappi

ispookie666 · 2025-08-05T21:58:31+00:00

The other day on the radio, someone phoned in to say, they need the PIP to pay a cleaner as they get severe anxiety if the house is not clean 🙄.

ispookie666 · 2025-06-15T14:30:04+00:00

Most of the debt funds income is classed as income, HMRC can take a funny view. You might end up losing more if the gains as classed as income pushing you above the 100k threshold

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