19 June

Yesterday Lithgow was the coldest place in the entire country, in the morning. Today is even colder. The house is toasty warm, in every room, and has been all night. I heated up its thermal mass yesterday with free solar power driving heat pumps (reverse-cycle AC), and that heat then kept the rooms warm overnight. Electricty is also cheap as chips overnight, so I can even run the split systems too. That also charged up the car for today’s commute to Bathurst and back, where it will carve up the road with its sublime, silent, enormous grunt. Free electricty. Free heating. Free driving. No wood to find/buy and chop, no ash to clean up, no asphyxiation of the family and neighbours with toxic wood smoke. Just press a button, and relax. At the time of year when mental midgets say ‘the sun doesn’t shine’. Join the revolution, don’t miss it inside social media bubbles.