The energy price cap will rise by 2% on 1st October, I’ve taken Martin Lewis’s advice to ditch and switch. I’ve been with Octopus and was sad to leave them but I did a check on Martin’s Energy Club and if I switch to Outfox Energy I can save £13 a month. So I’ve started the switching process which was very easy.

If you’ve not joined the Energy Club it’s worth doing you just enter your usage (which you can find on your bill) and it will calculate which is the best/cheapest supplier to switch to, they will even do the switch for you with some suppliers and give you cash back in some cases too.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cheapenergyclub/

We are on a fixed tariff so it won't go up in our household for now. But I suppose we are only delaying the inevitable.

Fixed here, too.

Yet they find their ways of taking more money from you, one way or another. The prices can't be justified. Something needs to be done to make them fairer again, but for now we have to tolerate it because nobody will try to make a difference. What makes me wonder is my friends in America who can use air conditioning throughout the day, but in the UK we have to choose between when warming our houses is affordable.

It's not a problem during heat waves, but in the winter months it's awful when you spend silly money just to stay warm.