Times are tough in the tasteless opulence market I see

My civic pride is even outweighing the not insignificant annoyance of having temporary traffic lights outside my house. Anyway it is nice when the system vaguely works. Good thameswatering Thames Water

But low and behold! Today, temporary lights have been erected (my temporary lights!), cones installed (my cones!) and barricades emplaced (my barricades!). An exploratory hole has been dug and the water slowed to a trickle. Not bad in 36 hours.

and that one should always be the change you want to see in the world, so I went on the website and used their genuinely excellent leak reporting tool (UX for days mate) and thought well bugger all will happen but at least I've tried

I risked life and trainer to clear the debris, after which it was pretty much pouring straight in to the drain and no longer buggering up the traffic, so I scooched back to my office and forgot about it till pick up when I realised this was just going to keep pouring water indefinitely 3/x

As I came back from the school run yesterday I noticed a pretty big water leak bubbling up through the road a few doors up from my house. It had swept loads of shite down the street and blocked a drain and was pooling precariously over the road 2/x

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You are going to freak out once you realise who was telling you it was "peak woke" Matt

Not sure this is a great example though tbf. Everyone who cares already knows this. It is barely "news" let alone NEWS. The absolute dog bites man of Boris Johnson stories

As this is bsky, I should probably add that, yes, I am aware the Gail's is somehow deeply problematic for a variety of nebulous reasons. But if I'm in King's Cross and hungry it is very much the lesser of the other evils I might commit.

if I dated Lily Allen I simply would be a good partner to her and not get a mean song written about me