The Ouse. No, not that one. The other one. No, not that one either.
12.01.2026 21:37
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The Ouse. No, not that one. The other one. No, not that one either.
Yes this is in all the old Scouting and Guiding camp cooking books and is as awful as it sounds. However you can also bake chocolate brownie mix in an orange using the same method, and that I do recommend.
Yes we need to talk about our support for climate measures but when the cost of living is seeping into every day conversation, why are we not talking about climate change? Food inflation is every bit as key a driver as energy inflation.
Yesterday's unexpected climate conversation was with the lady running the crepe van in the Christmas market who was astounded that a catering size jar of Nutella had doubled in the last few years, which led to a discussion on the substantial rise in the cost of chocolate due to extreme weather.
wow, I assume they had unknowingly bought a stolen bike, rather than being the thief themselves. I have to say I was surprised when it happened to me that I didn't need to provide evidence but the bike was marked as stolen on bike register
Amazing. I love a story of a returned bike, ever since I found mine 6 months after the theft (the police and fire service then kindly 'unstole' it for me with an angle grinder...)
So even housing associations are building private rents at the moment...to help fund their new and existing social housing. To get a mass social housing boom will need central govt funding. Bur the amount announced covers 18,000 homes, not even 1%of the target www.gov.uk/government/n...
Councils are cash strapped because their tax intake doesn't cover their statutory services (things they have to do like adult social care). Housing associations are having to (rightly!) spend to fix problems in their existing mouldy stock (from our last 'build 'em quickly' boom)
Yes I agree we should have more public sector and housing association (most housing associations are non-profit) homes. But they face the same barriers as everyone else- high upfront costs of land, materials, construction labour, design and planning.
One of your best!
So the welfare state and scouts have the same origin story!
Some of us need to fight within the system, some of us need to create new systems, some us need to tend the wounded, some of us need to stand in the way of harm, and all of us need to support the ones doing the things that is not, right now, our thing to do. Good thing there are a lot of us.
...this can cause legibility issues, for example the phrase 'Pregnant women and people with a BMI over 30' can be parsed two different ways, something you do NOT want in medical info. 'Pregnant people' is perfectly clear.
Exactly this, and I am always surprised how this escapes some people grammatically- both those trying to be trans inclusive and exclusionary. BSUH used 'pregnant women and people' in the literature they sent me, raising the alarming prospect that 'women' may be a separate category to people...
Not the best answer but something I've not seen mentioned...we are rabies free!
When the BBC has become so terrified of the right wing press that it's banning its presenters from talking about heating systems, then something's gone terribly wrong
And also basically all of England, sorry, the duh-duh-duhs have spread over here too.
All around age 9-12: Watership Down, then a LOT of Gerald Durrell books.
The great thing about wading birds reintroduction is that they're often migratory, so they might sometimes reintroduce themselves with the right habitat. Very much 'if you build it they (might) come'. The spoonbills in Norfolk are my favourite recent example www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A lot of people reading this poll as 'two thirds of UK citizens are anti wolf reintroduction ' but...I mean...are 36% really against reintroducing wading birds? Unless there's some 'Ruff haters Alliance' or 'Campaign against Cranes' I think we might need to see the 'don't know' figures on this one!
In light of today's release of the land use framework consultation, anyone looking for sensible conversation among the gen pop and media coverage should first be aware that a staggering 63% of Brits genuinely believe we could be self sufficient in food.
Let them eat cabbage.
We may get some more good examples with green belt relaxation - but I imagine there will be some of these stations with other good reasons not to develop. Will be interesting to see how it all works in practice!
That's because we can't develop to the north of Haywards Heath (High Weald NL) or to the south of Hassocks (South Downs NL) to my mind, development being focused along that line between HH and Hassocks is a sign of the system actually working (I say this as BH resident aware it's an unpopular view)
Maybe I shouldn't be watching #TheTraitors so much - I've just caught a rogue 'myself' in an email I was writing. The horror.
Alkalised water with (acidic) apple cider vinegar is my favourite bit...
In fairness What a Carve Up was on my teacher's 'not really needed for your GCSE but you should read it anyway, it's good' summer holiday list 20 years ago and I'm currently loving The Proof of My Innocence so maybe consider those two as cancelling each other out?
Ah I had forgot Heart of Darkness (or was it deliberately wiped from my memory?) so I guess not a 100% successful hit rate with the teacher picks.
I'm not sure I would settle in with the collected works of John Donne for an evening but generally I loved the set texts and was v happy with the genres picked. Looking at other replies I got so lucky (timeframe 2004-2007)
GCSE - Antony and Cleopatra, Talking Heads, Emma, war poets esp Wilfrid Owen, metaphysical poets. A Level - Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Shakespeare sonnets, A&C again (result!), Gerald Manley Hopkins, To The Lighthouse, The Rover (Behn). Good teacher picks.
yup. The Development and Nature white paper is big big stuff (classic December Sunday evening release as well) but is making barely a dent because we're all still processing the Devolution White Paper and the NPPF...