Here you go!

The quiz was great, but the dynamic ads/propaganda about the US government 's investments in Puerto Rico's energy system seemed to badly misjudge the listenership!

The "Holborn Problem" is one of the issues that will be a challenge for driverless cars. Driving on narrow, congested roads around London requires coordination with other drivers over passing spaces and giving way using eye contact and light flashing, difficult for a driverless vehicle.

One of our gutters retains water so I kept it topped up in the summer for the birds and enjoyed watching them queuing for a bath. Even the wood pigeons manage to squeeze into it, and the magpies always look particularly bedraggled afterwards

Meanwhile, in Penzance, Cornwall, Montol was being celebrated, with the night ending with a hilarious Brussel Sprout fight.

I replaced a R**g doorbell with a Reolink PoE one the other day for the Home Assistant integration. Tailscale means I get notifications with photos from HA with nothing leaving my internal network. Great!

Would you rather get your spouse annoyed by not telling her what you are laughing about or disgusted about what you are laughing about?

I admit to being an HS2 sceptic, but once we have committed to it we need to see it through to completion. We are going to end up with an(other) incredibly expensive monument to the country's inability to manage large infrastructure projects.

Excellent as always. Definitely *the* public transport podcast!

In our house the cat doesn't bother meowing at my wife because she ignores her, whereas I always respond so she thinks I am a soft touch for a bit of Siamese yowling. You will find a sample of the yowling earlier on my timeline!

Ordered! Plus a few other things whilst I was there. Thanks!

I love LSOAs and MSOAs and QGIS so let me know if you are still struggling to find someone. The links between these and wards are complicated, because wards often cross LSOA boundaries.

Definitely. It is up with Neurotribes as my favourite non-fiction reads.

Local authorities have some responsibility for this because they often don't pay for travel time either. For home care providers who work mainly with local authority funded clients it is a big issue. Similarly, I suspect that the announced increase in the living wage won't get funded either.

I agree that working conditions and pay in social care are terrible (alongside opportunities for career development), which is in part why it is so difficult to recruit. Even providers that pay well can find it hard to recruit and also rely on international recruitment.

The salary thresholds for social care visas are higher than the living wage, so I am sure that providers would prefer to recruit UK nationals if they could find them. The visa scheme was extended to cover social care workers because of worker shortages

There are other politics podcasts?

I'll be looking out for those. As a fellow freelancer, my work has also dried up over the last few months and two other freelancer friends, in different fields, are also struggling to get work. Bleak times.

Back in the 1990s it was used as an unofficial night time stopping point on a long distance bike ride (it is accessible from a nearby B road). Unfortunately this was the period when ravers were taking over motorway services so it had been closed for the night. It was a 50 mile ride to the next stop!