Steady on old chap.

We thank the bus driver.

I know a little about the telecoms world and this is certainly true for mobile phones. An awful lot of people are paying more than they need to.

Trust me, it's not common inside the public sector either.

Everyone should have to work retail or waiting jobs for a year.

I completely agree with your original post and I see I gave it a like at the time, applying a new tax to EVs while continuing the fuel duty freeze seems counter productive though.

Hm. I don't drive much any more but it turns out it's really nice to be able to see the TV clearly, and to see my surroundings clearly when I'm walking out and about.

I can even read the little time counter on the blu-ray player!

David Tennant's Saab survived The Hack - I was expecting it to, to be honest, it wasn't an explodey sort of series. Not physical explosions, anyway.

I'm glad Sophia's school did what they could, however limited that was. That's the only ray of light in this sorry saga.

My encounter with one of these people in real life left me feeling that she was just a bully who had found a group she could bully and get away with it - not just get away with it but enjoy the support of people on X. You are not wrong.

This was a very off-the-cuff post which has gained a little traction so I am sorry that I didn't mention those who died and the grief of their loved ones. That figure of 23,000 premature deaths is... Well, I don't know the word. Unconscionable is as close as I can find.

I'm going to claim 2 - never did the boombox thing and while we didn't have an encyclopedia set there was one from my dad's childhood at my grandma's house.

Faxes still have specialist business uses mind you.

If the radiator system had been properly designed for a condensing gas boiler we wouldn't have had to do so much work, there's a lot of bodgery to fix unfortunately (hence the need for a grant).

That's the one then!

@emmachaplin.bsky.social didn't you post a picture of this the other day? I assumed it was permanently moored like a houseboat!

Mine was £2.5k after the BUS grant, including new hot water tank and all new radiators. When the heat pump itself fails and needs replacing it'll be a similar price to what a new boiler costs now.

The house is more comfortable and it's slightly cheaper to run.

I went with a group of adults, small children, teenagers and a dog and we all loved it. Not many days out can do that!

I used to be really into classic cars and I always loved the ones which were used much more than the show queens.

Also Butser is awesome, go there if you can.

Looks amazing to me.