CV5480
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Enjoys photography, local history, books and all the good things in life!
I just look out of the window.
If I can see snow coming down......
If I can see snow coming down......
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I just look out of the window.
If I can see snow coming down......
If I can see snow coming down......
Two points:
1. Should someone point out to these whingers that the tree and evergreen decorations are actually pagan in origin?
Should Tesco name these "Saturnalia trees"?
2. Is the worst "say Christmas without saying Christmas" example EE's advert for the "hosting/guesting season"?
1. Should someone point out to these whingers that the tree and evergreen decorations are actually pagan in origin?
Should Tesco name these "Saturnalia trees"?
2. Is the worst "say Christmas without saying Christmas" example EE's advert for the "hosting/guesting season"?
November 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Two points:
1. Should someone point out to these whingers that the tree and evergreen decorations are actually pagan in origin?
Should Tesco name these "Saturnalia trees"?
2. Is the worst "say Christmas without saying Christmas" example EE's advert for the "hosting/guesting season"?
1. Should someone point out to these whingers that the tree and evergreen decorations are actually pagan in origin?
Should Tesco name these "Saturnalia trees"?
2. Is the worst "say Christmas without saying Christmas" example EE's advert for the "hosting/guesting season"?
On the question of snow, is the Google weather forecast the most useless ever?
It keeps flashing messages of "significant snow this morning" (the little that fell overnight is actually melting!).
On other days it tells me that the rain will stop when the sun is out, etc......
It keeps flashing messages of "significant snow this morning" (the little that fell overnight is actually melting!).
On other days it tells me that the rain will stop when the sun is out, etc......
November 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
On the question of snow, is the Google weather forecast the most useless ever?
It keeps flashing messages of "significant snow this morning" (the little that fell overnight is actually melting!).
On other days it tells me that the rain will stop when the sun is out, etc......
It keeps flashing messages of "significant snow this morning" (the little that fell overnight is actually melting!).
On other days it tells me that the rain will stop when the sun is out, etc......
Certainly is! Been chucking it down recently!
November 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Certainly is! Been chucking it down recently!
The local reservoir, here in the Pennines, was already overflowing on Wednesday with water flooding down the spillway. And just a few weeks ago, it was 3-4 metres down.
November 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The local reservoir, here in the Pennines, was already overflowing on Wednesday with water flooding down the spillway. And just a few weeks ago, it was 3-4 metres down.
Exactly.
You would have thought that, given the obvious unpopularity of the Tories, prior to 2024, they would have gone all out to be different.
The advice from their highly-paid advisors has been appalling. How long before it becomes blindingly clear that it isn't working?
You would have thought that, given the obvious unpopularity of the Tories, prior to 2024, they would have gone all out to be different.
The advice from their highly-paid advisors has been appalling. How long before it becomes blindingly clear that it isn't working?
November 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Exactly.
You would have thought that, given the obvious unpopularity of the Tories, prior to 2024, they would have gone all out to be different.
The advice from their highly-paid advisors has been appalling. How long before it becomes blindingly clear that it isn't working?
You would have thought that, given the obvious unpopularity of the Tories, prior to 2024, they would have gone all out to be different.
The advice from their highly-paid advisors has been appalling. How long before it becomes blindingly clear that it isn't working?
You do wonder about the competence of the (presumably) high-paid political advisors who continue to suggest that this course of action will ensure a Labour win at the next General election.
November 16, 2025 at 11:21 AM
You do wonder about the competence of the (presumably) high-paid political advisors who continue to suggest that this course of action will ensure a Labour win at the next General election.
Presumably, Labour have a team of highly paid political analysts who monitor the effect of what Cabinet ministers say on the polls. Surely the situation is clear that, by following this course of action, it is doing nothing for their electability?
November 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Presumably, Labour have a team of highly paid political analysts who monitor the effect of what Cabinet ministers say on the polls. Surely the situation is clear that, by following this course of action, it is doing nothing for their electability?
And yet, Labour continue to believe that by spouting this nonsense, it goes down well with voters.
You have to wonder who exactly is telling Starmer and the rest that this strategy is a good idea and what they actually base that advice on.
You have to wonder who exactly is telling Starmer and the rest that this strategy is a good idea and what they actually base that advice on.
November 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
And yet, Labour continue to believe that by spouting this nonsense, it goes down well with voters.
You have to wonder who exactly is telling Starmer and the rest that this strategy is a good idea and what they actually base that advice on.
You have to wonder who exactly is telling Starmer and the rest that this strategy is a good idea and what they actually base that advice on.
You do wonder who is giving the feedback, and what that feedback is based on, to make Labour politicians think that, by leading this conversation on this way, they are making themselves attractive to voters.
November 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
You do wonder who is giving the feedback, and what that feedback is based on, to make Labour politicians think that, by leading this conversation on this way, they are making themselves attractive to voters.
Dire first half. HT 0-0 Second half 6 goal thriller. FT 3-3
November 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Dire first half. HT 0-0 Second half 6 goal thriller. FT 3-3
Isn't it interesting that, according to this report in the Telegraph, most folk think that life was better in Britain before Thatcher and her successors started to change every aspect of the country?
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Isn't it interesting that, according to this report in the Telegraph, most folk think that life was better in Britain before Thatcher and her successors started to change every aspect of the country?
What I find interesting is that The Telegraph reports that folk "allegedly" thought that Britain was a better place to live before Thatcher and her successors started to radically alter the whole of Britain's society, environment and political system.
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
What I find interesting is that The Telegraph reports that folk "allegedly" thought that Britain was a better place to live before Thatcher and her successors started to radically alter the whole of Britain's society, environment and political system.
Hi.
Thanks for the nice comments, as always.
It is bridge 52 over the Huddersfield Narrow Canal midway between Slaithwaite and Marsden in the Colne Valley.
Thanks for the nice comments, as always.
It is bridge 52 over the Huddersfield Narrow Canal midway between Slaithwaite and Marsden in the Colne Valley.
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Hi.
Thanks for the nice comments, as always.
It is bridge 52 over the Huddersfield Narrow Canal midway between Slaithwaite and Marsden in the Colne Valley.
Thanks for the nice comments, as always.
It is bridge 52 over the Huddersfield Narrow Canal midway between Slaithwaite and Marsden in the Colne Valley.
Admirable.
However, I am still trying to work out how you can argue that there was no investment in the water infrastructure before 1989 when, quite clearly, there was.
How else were the reservoirs and miles of pipes, built by the Victorians and their successors, paid for?
However, I am still trying to work out how you can argue that there was no investment in the water infrastructure before 1989 when, quite clearly, there was.
How else were the reservoirs and miles of pipes, built by the Victorians and their successors, paid for?
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Admirable.
However, I am still trying to work out how you can argue that there was no investment in the water infrastructure before 1989 when, quite clearly, there was.
How else were the reservoirs and miles of pipes, built by the Victorians and their successors, paid for?
However, I am still trying to work out how you can argue that there was no investment in the water infrastructure before 1989 when, quite clearly, there was.
How else were the reservoirs and miles of pipes, built by the Victorians and their successors, paid for?
Possibly.
But the only way that this could have been rectified would have been to continue the levels of investment, post-privatisation, that the old publicly-owned water companies put in.
Had this happened, the infrastructure could have been brought up to date.
But the only way that this could have been rectified would have been to continue the levels of investment, post-privatisation, that the old publicly-owned water companies put in.
Had this happened, the infrastructure could have been brought up to date.
November 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Possibly.
But the only way that this could have been rectified would have been to continue the levels of investment, post-privatisation, that the old publicly-owned water companies put in.
Had this happened, the infrastructure could have been brought up to date.
But the only way that this could have been rectified would have been to continue the levels of investment, post-privatisation, that the old publicly-owned water companies put in.
Had this happened, the infrastructure could have been brought up to date.
This may the case now but, contrary to your assertion that there was no investment in water before 1989, the old Council Water Companies seem to have spent an awful lot of money building up the water supply infrastructure gifted to the privatised companies.
November 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This may the case now but, contrary to your assertion that there was no investment in water before 1989, the old Council Water Companies seem to have spent an awful lot of money building up the water supply infrastructure gifted to the privatised companies.
Maybe, then, we should go back to the old system of publicly owned Council Water Companies.
The reservoirs built and invested in before 1989 seem to be doing the job.
When I passed this morning, the levels were so high that the water was rushing down the overflow spillway.
The reservoirs built and invested in before 1989 seem to be doing the job.
When I passed this morning, the levels were so high that the water was rushing down the overflow spillway.
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Maybe, then, we should go back to the old system of publicly owned Council Water Companies.
The reservoirs built and invested in before 1989 seem to be doing the job.
When I passed this morning, the levels were so high that the water was rushing down the overflow spillway.
The reservoirs built and invested in before 1989 seem to be doing the job.
When I passed this morning, the levels were so high that the water was rushing down the overflow spillway.
No idea.
But the ones that I walked past this morning were definitely built and paid for before 1989.
But the ones that I walked past this morning were definitely built and paid for before 1989.
November 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
No idea.
But the ones that I walked past this morning were definitely built and paid for before 1989.
But the ones that I walked past this morning were definitely built and paid for before 1989.
Really?
Did the reservoirs close to our house magically appear on their own?
Or did someone pay to build them?
Did the reservoirs close to our house magically appear on their own?
Or did someone pay to build them?
November 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Really?
Did the reservoirs close to our house magically appear on their own?
Or did someone pay to build them?
Did the reservoirs close to our house magically appear on their own?
Or did someone pay to build them?
Got them dead to rights, then?
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Got them dead to rights, then?
In the same way that Boris resigned when the actual results of Brexit, rather than his promised "results" became known?
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
In the same way that Boris resigned when the actual results of Brexit, rather than his promised "results" became known?