Story by Emmjay
“Fucking bastards !” said Merv, peering at his electricity bill.
“My son !” said Father O’Way.
“No, MY effing sun, Father” said Merv.
“Pardon ?” said FOW.
“It’s the pub electricity bill, Father” said Merv, handing over the offending epistle.
“Mother of all power bills !” said the good father.
“Telling me”, said Merv.
“Look at this, Father” said Merv, pointing to two little pieces of malfeasance on the part of Orgasm Energy.
“First”, continued Merv, “The bastards jack up the hourly rates EXCEPT for the middle of the night when everyone’s asleep cuddling up to the missus and generating their own electricity”
“Well, for SOME”, said FOW.
“Sorry, Father, I forgot” said Merv. “And check this out… you know how we put in solar power on the roof of the new ballroom and bowling alley….. well the mongrel bastards cut the rate they pay us for generating more power than we need in the peak period”.
“Seems unfair” said the good father.
“UNFAIR !” Merv was wound up and under full power himself now. “Check this out, Father. “Peak rate they charge me when Granny fires up the wedge frier – is 45 cents per kilowhatsit. The only rate they pay me is 4.7 cents per kilowhatsit – and the bastards reduced that from a whopping 5.1 cents, said Merv.
“Fuck them. Pardon me, Father”, said Merv.
Father O’Way took out his rosemary beads, looked into the middle distance and had a silent word with his boss. More accurately, his boss’ boss.
“Father ?” said Merv, pouring the shepherd of St Generic Brands another Trotter’s Ale.
There was a huge distant rumble. The lights flickered and the pub emergency generator sprung into life, keeping the vital supplies of Trotter’s Ale in an appropriately chilly state.
“Phew,” said Father O’Way. “For a minute there I didn’t think you had a prayer”.
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
July 1 I pulled a letter out of my post box from my energy provider telling me leccy prices were going up on July 1. Good eh the way that works for us.
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So did we shoe, then another telling us that the rate we’ll now get for our power back to the grid after installing solar panels will now be a cent less per kilothingy.
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Mark Futeran Bowral
It is interesting to note that the Australian public is prevented by our government from knowing the fate of the Tamil asylum-seeker boat at sea in or near our waters for ‘‘operational reasons’’ or ‘‘on water’’ matters. Meanwhile, the Italian government has rescued some 60,000 refugees from boats in the Mediterranean this year alone without any fuss or inflated language about ‘‘sovereign borders’’ or labeling refugees as ‘‘illegal’’.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-letters/morrison-mantra-heaps-shame-on-country-20140701-zsryr.html#ixzz36pDr2iKv
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Scott Morrison should be kept in indefinite detention till his (in)humanity can be established.
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Welcome back Gerard. Missed you. Morrison is beyond humanity.
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Welcome home Gerard. Agree entirely.
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Gerard back and as on the boats as ever. Well done.
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Sounds like you’ve just had the same shock we’ve had getting our first bill with panels, Got the princely return of $33.42 for a quarter and an electricity bill the same as last year. The bastard. Still we have dinosaur running the country and an Environment Minister wetting his pants if he speaks up.
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Go and watch four corners! Australia is not the place it used to be, ‘progressive, forward looking and welcoming to foreigners’. The good news is that there is now an injunction in place to stop the Shri Lankan 150 boatpeople from being transferred back to the country they are fleeing from. Can you believe it?
We have been away and are likely to be away again soon. Even so, we’ll try and re-connect with our friends from P/Arms more often.
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Good to hear from you, Gez. Welcome back.
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More power to the High Court Gez and The Hague for Morrison and Abbott.
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Timely coincidence. We had a blackout last Wednesday. A local fool ran into a power pole. We were back after 2.5 hours but the village had no power nearly 8 hours. Lucky my fire stove was one (well it was bloody cold) and the lamb shank dish I had prepared earlier was cooked but not hot. On to the stove and just as I was ready to serve the power came back on. So we had mashed spuds as well. (PS we do not have gas.)
Now the bastards want to flog off the power and I reckon if the bills go down it’ll be in 50 years’ time by which time they will have gone up so much no one will notice. I mean, it’s bullshit isn’t it.
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Absolutely, Viv. How can the power companies be such utter bastards ? The fact that so much power is coming from non-fossil fuel sources is doing the country and the planet a favour – so how can reducing the amount paid for clean energy be justified ?
I’m about to invoice Orgasm Energy for a connection fee -for the privilege of accessing the Pig’s Arms generation facility. I think it will be about $10 grand – or say 2 grand per killerwhatsit.
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They’re wasting money left right and centre. There is a doozy of an underground electricity project going on near me. About a kilometre of it beginning near the tip (waste transfer station) and going east for a little way. It’ll do nothing. An experiment? Gotta get under a creek. Being done in wet weather and progress so slow (3 months so far) and they have to pump out the huge ditches. (Everyone along the line already has power, only about 12 properties at most.) The bloke doing it can’t under why or what for. Said he did another job a bit up north, his time was charged at $1000 and the contractor charged the energy company $20,000.
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Power to the good Father
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