Good Energy have replied to my question about a two rate meter. I can have one for free if I commit to staying with Good Energy for at least two years. The only thing is that comparing the tariffs, the night rate is a lot lower, but the standing charge …

I live in Trowbridge Central, and tomorrow there's a by-election for the Town Council and the District Council. Maybe I've not looked hard enough, but I couldn't find any info about the election on the Town Council website. I'd have expected to see a list of the candidates at the …

These are two separate things, the film 'Akira', and 'The Beach' by Alex Garland. It's not like Jonah and the Whale.

I remember everyone talking about The Beach, and then there was the film and the song. I never seemed to read the book or see the film, but I …

Thanks for your encouragement. I'm going through the council because I assume that they'll take care of the legal / financial bits.

They don't seem terribly keen on my small 38m2 back garden though! I may well take up your suggestion of putting a notice up.

I've written to Good Energy...

Hello, my friend has a day/night meter and gets cheap electricity at night. I've just got a single rate meter and so can't take advantage of the cheap electricity. I'm an existing Good Energy customer. What are my options?

Good idea, but why go through the council? Just put a notice up. To save CO2 you need to get someone very local so they don't drive to and fro.

I applied for my 1st allotment last week. Between a 4 and 10 year waiting list!!

I'd like to see my back garden put to use. I have in mind an allotment. The problem is that I haven't got the interest or enthusiasm to actually do the hard work of growing vegetables.

So my plan is to rent out my garden as an allotment, through the …

The amount of limescale on the heat exchanger in my gas combi boiler should be reducing now, after 5 years of steady accumulation. My hope is that the house will use a bit less gas, and emit a bit less CO2.

The other reasons why I installed a water softener …

A bug-fix release of Imprimatur. Fixed a problem that has been there for ages. If you started Imprimatur with a file name only (no path) for the script file, and then referred to another file in the script file, there would be a problem. I fixed it using:

File file …

The new release of Imprimatur has the following changes:

• The [response-code]{style="font-style: italic;"} element was missing from the DTD, so that's been added in.
  
• Now supports the PUT method.
• Can set and check HTTP headers.
• Added a [body-file]{style="font-style: italic;"} attribute to the [request]{style="font-style: italic;"} element …