We are becoming Wind Turbine Huggers

....or close to it.

We're getting solar panels put on our roof.

Fortunately the back of our house faces south, which is good for 2 reasons:
Firstly, it will be really efficient coz it will get a lot of sun, and secondly, the solar panels will be on the back of the house so nobody has to know that we are wind turbine huggers.

I suppose it was kinda inevitable, considering there is a mad scientist in the family. And we may eventually get a small wind turbine in our garden. Unless its forbidden by health and safety in case we get our heads chopped off. Actually, you probably couldn't get the planning permission for that.

And I'm actually happy about it, because it means there will be plenty of hot water for showers, and also (slightly less important, but also worth taking into consideration) it's gonna help save the planet. And I'm not the one who is paying for them! hehe

Apparently the government sometimes gives people a grant if they want to get solar panels, but we don't get one for some reason.
I think its a conspiracy. The government hates us. I'm also not gonna be getting any money from the EMA next year. I told my dad that its not my fault he has a decent job, and that I think he should pay me to stay in school if the government won't. He's not going to though. He told me to get a job instead. And my so-called friends (most of whom will be getting loads of money from the EMA) all think thats funny. They have sick senses of humour.

Oh well. I'm getting a job. So there.

Although, at the rate my revision is going, I might end up being refused entry to 6th form, so I can get a full time job rather than just a Saturday one.

I made a really pretty copy of the periodic table though. i colour coded it and everything. However, my mum pointed out that it wasn't really time efficient, because I spent longer colouring it in than learning from it. And to be honest, theres only so much you can learn from a periodic table, even if it is a very attractive one....

Revision is so boring though. And I think I have a hole in my sleep tank, because I got about 12 hours of sleep last night, and by 3pm today I was really tired. I'm still really tired. My eyes are going fuzzy so I can't really see the screen. So I don't actually know if I'm typing the right keys...

It might be coz I've given up coffee, but I think that much caffeine makes me have really weird mood swings (as opposed to normal mood swings), so I'm trying to avoid it for a while.

My grand parents are now back from their cycling holiday in Austria. They cycled 60km per day. Surely thats not normal for 70 year olds...?! Anyway, I wouldn't mind it if they kept their exercise fanaticism to themselves, but they drag the rest of us into it. Yesterday they took my brother and sister to the Thames to go in their inflatable dinghy (is that even legal?!) and then 30 mins after they got back they went out to go swimming. Then by 11 this morning they'd come round to make us all go cycling to Hampton Court (as if they hadn't done enough cycling over the past 2 weeks). So I was forced to cycle 12 miles today - but actually outside in the fresh(ish) air.

This is London. If I want exercise, I'll go to a gym and use rowing machines, exercise bikes and treadmills like all the other normal people. I will not do the open air equivalent, coz thats just wierd when you live in a city.
I don't mind out door exercise if its football, or something like that, but for cycling and rowing, you kinda have to be out in the country. Every time I go out on a bike these days, I nearly get hit by a buses. And I know its not just me, coz whenever I'm in a bus, I see other bikes getting squished against the curb. And tbh, its normally the K2. When I was in yr 4, a yr 6 girl got run over by the K2. Not that I hold grudges or anything.