Anyway, I did get a moment to make a nice hardwood bezel for the display unit for the battery monitor. I made it out of a piece of mahogany I got from the Bristol Wood Recycling project.
I just need to wire it all up now and get back to working on the actual software.
In another development I managed to work out how to send data via GPRS with my GSM module, so I might use that and transmit the battery data to a web service running elsewhere rather then storing it locally on an SD card.