I haven't been managing this no cost over winter doing covid. I'm lucky and I get the extra hundred and forty pounds winter payment, but we just don't have the heating on simple as that...

More snow. Minus 3 this morning...

Minus 2 snow blowing sideways its April back to stressing about putting the heating on.undefined...

From my energy provider I applied for some Grant's which accepted and adjusted now with my monthly bill....

Snow is slowly melting. Rain and a strong wind keeping us indoors...

Relieved that school is closed due to Covid. Thick snow and my daughter doesn't have waterproof boots to walk in it...

Temperatures have risen again to highs of 6°. Snow has melted but no sign cold weather payment from the DWP as mentioned in media after a week of freezing temps...

We’re really struggling. I’ve just changed my energy supplier purely so I can apply for a Warm Homes Discount...

This is certainly a most trying moment, with the latest lockdown in NI just as we were expecting children to be back in school. With children in school there's a little ease on expenses, I can live on one meal a day but with kids home there's more consumption of basically everything and this means that I will continue to stretch the budget further...

Minus 15 tonight according to weather forecast. No offer of extra payments to cover costs of heating which was offered in 1st lockdown...