Martin Widlake

I like the idea that a new form of cockney slang might develop - "That'l be a couple of squirrels, mate, and a hedgehog for delivery as it'll take two of us".

That's why I always had a white board and some markers in my back pocket 😂

It's nice when things a company sells don't go wrong. But in some ways, it's how they handle things when they DO go wrong that really marks out a good company.

Good point. They should all go too. But at least with them, there has been some sort of process to decide who gets to be the bishop/archbishop of wherever. So in theory, it is partly based on merit.
Partly.

Oh, I absolutely agree, the life peerage is all very questionable too, especially when you look at who the last few PM's have appointed when they leave office - Boris putting that young lady in the house for reasons never explained, The Lettuce getting to put ANYONE in for her 45 days of madness

It's something from our ancient class system that should have ended decades ago, the idea that someone holds a position of power because his dad did. And he held it only because HIS dad did etc, etc, etc, often back hundreds of years.

Hereditary peers to be removed from Lords as bill passes The bill abolishes the 92 seats reserved for peers who inherit their titles through their families.

At last! All remaining hereditary peers in the UK House of Lords will go in May

92 men, mostly old, will no longer have a significant voice in our governance simply due to *who their parents were*, usually based on a forgotten deed by a long, long dead ancestor

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I just spent 5 minutes telling a friend a story about when I met four nuns in an oringinal Austin Mini, about 1986. It sounds like a joke but it wasn't. And yet...

For some reason, just the remembered image of four nuns in a tiny Austin Mini cracks me up. And I don't know why.

It had it coming, dropping bloody acorns all over the place.

Just leave it for 9 more months and you'll be back on trend.
It's what did with the fairy lights we put up around the oak sapling 10 years ago!

Yeah, the Doctor rather famously never uses weapons.

Except when he uses weapons.

OK, he does not use guns.

Mostly.

Also, I think the Doctor is more of a Lib Dem than a Conservative.

Silver tabby cat with a white bib, sitting in an empty laundry basket, looking content

They just can’t resist, can they?
#Caturday #catsofbluesky #cats

I've got a pair I could send you! They cost €6,000, used for about 6 months, apparently they can be totally reprogrammed. But the UK hearing aid industry utterly refuses to do it.

Dear oh dear oh dear.

Deer! Visitor in the back garden

Susan Parker (as was, a year behind you in Leeds) says "Well done!"

To be fair I was remembering a meal from about 8 years ago when Sue was in Switzerland. But for some reason, it has stuck with me! It was actually..... OK!

Rather beats my:
cornflakes in water-laced-with-soy-sauce and a side of a couple of slices of 2-day-past processed chicken.
Oh, and some fruit pastilles.

This person has... drawn a line between the "best" two points to back his claim and utterly ignored the *very clear* trend of the actual data!
Even an abject moron would see this is stupid.

I have spent a few weeks as a wheelchair user - it freaked people out when I used to get up and stagger about the park for a couple of minutes 😁

One day, this will be me.

I never claimed to be a nice person!

Happy #Caturday!

All four kittens playing with mum on the new cat gym I created
#cats #catsofbluesky

I wonder how bloody stupid #FIFA feel now over that "peace" prize they gave to Trump.

Back in 1999 we viewed an old granery beside a canal (and opposite 2 pubs(*)!) which we almost bought - and it came with moring for a canal boat!

But we were too slow. What might have been...

(* one of the pubs was our favourite in the area and was one of the places Marston's tried new brews at.)

Some people drink wine, go on the internet late at night, and buy canal boats, double-decker buses, or old fire engines.

I drink wine, go on the internet, and buy battery-powered garden tools.

And batteries.

But only small ones.

Ghosts feature film begins filming next month The Wait is Over… Ghosts: The Possession of Button House is coming to the big screen

The BBC comedy "Ghosts" is to come back as a film! It's odd how happy that makes me, the writers had previously said they had brought the program to a conclusion and it was not coming back.

We have just finished re-watching it for, I think, the third time.

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Indeed, and a good scientist will concede they are wrong when the data shows this.

Religions certainly alter their position over time, though I can't think of any key religious leaders doing so - but it's not something I know much about.

I wonder how many "cat presents" equals one foor tile...?

I would not really do that. It's not fair on the people running the franking machines in the Post Office.

This idiot does not even know how science works.

In science you explicitly do NOT trust the expert - you trust the results of tests.

You are informed by logical deduction and modelling.

And you listen to experts who have proven they do the above. But you do not take what they say as gospel.

As someone who has been watching House Porn for years (escape to the country, Location etc) I can tell you that house prices have certainly gone up over that period! Prices local to me have steadily grown and have doubled since we bought our hovel back in 2005.

😆
17C was a special version of Oracle where the optimizer was RBO if all tables involved were less than 1 million records, it wouldn't let you create a table with no PK, it dropped tables with only numbers in VARCHAR2, and the instance if there were fewer FKs than tables

It worked but was unpopular