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Ann Kempster
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Public sector agitator for good.

Feminist. Cheese. Dachshunds.
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She/her.
Flasks and teapots.
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
as a place that has great and helpful info?

No, it's an embedded process, the Service Manual is open and public and kept up to date by a team. It's a living thing.

My rant is mostly focussed on Wales and the endless locked behind doors knowledge hubs that no one uses or manages. Dead things.
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
EEK!
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Glorious roads through most of Skye. But they resurface a lot because of the weather.

But where they do have potholes - they are some might big ones.
November 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Town might work but its the roads between towns and the rural roads that are the real issues.

Might also be better all round if Monmouthshire just flipping fixed our roads. I'm convinced they are the worst in Wales.
November 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
hugs x
November 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
It’s been lashing down here the last few days, we’ve got usual surface water flooding but nothing yet in terms of river levels getting dangerously high.

We’ll see how that lasts over the next week. Weather forecast is GRIM for the next week
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Which again is helping

The really bad flood last year happened in mid October. And again through autumn.

We’ve barely seen the stream levels rise this year at all. So far. 🤞🏻
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
We’ve been absolutely fine. We’ve not had the worst of it really.

I also think that given the dry summer we had the ground has substantially more capacity this year to absorb water than last year after a very soggy summer.

And upstream, the farming cycles have been different this year
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Wales and WG are uniquely risk averse amongst governments in the UK.
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Bindicator
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I would love it if Monmouthshire did this.
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I'm so so so so so happy about this.

It's the Jukesie hit parade in a job: library, data and product.
November 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Took me 2 years to "simply" pop into a bank to reclaim a suspended bank account with 5 figures.

Took 10 minutes, they did it all for me.

Would I ignore this again for 2 years. Yes almost certainly.
November 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
We say recycling or bin-bins.

We got it in our shred google calendar but can never remember if that means that is the day they go out (night before) or the day they get picked up :/
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM