And yet another one bites the dust #Redform https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/reform-councillor-quits-shrewsbury-council-due-to-work-pressures-9278143

@christineburns Just seen what must me the cheapest new EV, the Leapmotor TO3. Starts are just over £13k. About Fiat 850 size but with four doors, high roof and a hatchback. Around 160 Mille range. The owners I talked to though it wonderful . Just the two of them but plenty of space.

The upside of having swallows nesting in the garage and the subsequent guano everywhere is we have twenty to thirty performing an aerial ballet over us with lots of chittering.

This is a massive heat producing data centre in Slough England.. Can anyone spot how they could at least reduce the heat inside the building?

Journalists either side of the border on the problems of a reunification referendum. Scots who want independence should follow this debate too.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/24/a-united-ireland-referendum-must-not-be-another-brexit-analysts-say

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/stowaway-italian-kitten-forever-home-eastern-passage-1.7636542

Via Euronews: Norway’s sovereign wealth fund sells its shares in 11 Israeli firms https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/08/12/norways-sovereign-wealth-fund-sells-its-shares-in-11-israeli-firms

In the hope this reaches a scientist of the right discipline I have a well and we use the water to successfully water our vegetable beds. What tests should I make on the water to see if it would be suitable for a hot tub please?

Farage a cult leader? Change one letter. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qw8qd5lvno

For those who think there are only two sexes with 46 total chromosomes and they have either XX (female) or XY (male) chromosomes. The following are also possible.
47,XXY (Klinefelter syndrome)
47,XXX (Trisomy X)
47,XYY
Trisomies are the most common X and Y aneuploid conditions. Less common are “tetrasomies,” which denote the presence of four sex chromosomes:

48,XXYY
48,XXXY
48,XXXX
Still rarer are the “pentasomies,” indicating five sex chromosomes:

49,XXXXY
49,XXXXX

Reform is not the answer just an even greater problem. For once Keli is correct unintentionally. Kemi Badenoch says Lib Dems are people who fix church roofs. Yes: that’s why we’re popular and she isn‘t https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/kemi-badenoch-lib-dems-reform-tories?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Again, Teen Vogue is willing to say things that we all know. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/fsu-shooter-radicalized-white-man-real-threat-oped

This is silly. Government fines water company and use money to clean up rivers but guess where the money will come from
a. The Directors
b. The shareholders
c. the customers.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/09/the-sewage-scandal-ends-now-uk-water-company-fines-to-be-used-to-clean-up-rivers

I have been offered some garden manure if I bag and collect myself. Anybody any experience with Alpaca droppings? As they are camelids it might be flammable

Remember when Rwanda was safe and the Tories gave it millions?https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/25/uk-suspends-aid-to-rwanda-over-alleged-support-for-drc-rebels

Thinking of flying to or within USA? Air traffic controllers have to work mandatory overtime as so understaffed. Many working 10 hour days 6 days a week. US airspace and airports no longer safe . Source: CNN

Fish farming has limits https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-20/dead-salmon-in-tasmanian-fish-pens/104954444?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

Hostages. Why when Israel has drastically reduced food aid and clean water to Gaza are their people surprised the hostages aren’t fat? https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-hamas-hostage-prisoner-exchange-feb8-1.7454394

@christineburns https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-28/government-halts-gender-hormone-treatment-new-trans-patients-18/104867244?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

Cryptocurrency fraud. Who on Earth trusts the folks who promote crypto? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/cryptocurrency-fraud-local-1.7436164