The wind on the walk into work this morning was decidedly trying to blow me backwards towards the bed I'd just got out of.
Sometimes Mother Nature gives you hints how the day will go...
Some people say you should buy more expensive clothes from reputable retailers because they last longer and so are better value than cheaper ones.
Well I had a gift card to spend in M&S so I bought their "good quality" socks. I've worn a couple of pairs about 3 times and already have holes in them.
My office was once in a portakabin literally just across the road from a wind turbine. I used to hear traffic, people walking by talking, pigeons sitting on the roof cooing but hardly ever the turbine.
On this subject I'm suffering from a severe case of not giving a toss.
Ah, the work web mail has decided that I've read enough email today and has gone into a lovely animation loop no matter what browser I try to use. I think its trying to tell me to pack up and go home.
May be sitting in the middle of a field giggling at a Mars bar.
Quote tweet with your preferred native wildlife to feature on bank notes
You've put the insertion in the wrong place!
Just imagine if they’d had CAPTCHA in Battlestar Galactica.
I guess it would have been a short show 🤷♂️
"And that's how I failed my driving course with British Rail..."
I wonder what the Venn Diagram intersection is between the group of people who were vocal in their dislike for "15 minutes cities" and the people who are going to get vocal about how much it's going to cost to drive to their nearest shops/cafe/pub/school/workplace/dentist/doctors/etc? 🤔
Er, more common than you might think. For example here's Temple Hardwick Primary School right next door to.... ah MOD Kineton.
maps.app.goo.gl/6LPw8EsUmUm6...
Hmm, didn't need to put the light on to get up today... Spring is definitely underway.
Map on the Azuma train with the train route overlaid on a map of the road network.
Just noticed that the journey progress map in the vestibule of the new EMR trains shows the road network, not the railway network. Oops
Of course not.
Only 10 or 12 biscuits? Amateurs.
Ok, when are we going to rebrand solar panels as "freedom panels"? #EnergyCrisis
And older women with HP, PV, EV and battery storage... We'll be 'evangelising the good news' as usual. I need to get my 'convert' numbers up from 4 EV, 3 PV and 1 battery... Now, about the benefits of a vegetarian diet...
Been explaining for years that US oil and gas production is very dirty (high methane emissions) and it can never meet the standards set by EU regs.
Now the oil industry is admitting the same. The lies work until they don't!
In other places it isn't always gas that sets marginal price. For example in France there's lots of nuclear generation, so that sets the marginal price, and Nordic countries have lots of hydropower, so that can set the marginal price.
The UK did the "dash for gas" in the 1980s/90s, so we get gas.
How about I don't take advantage your mood, but just say I'm glad whatever it is has been resolved to your benefit? Everyone deserves a win.
There have been suggestions of changing to a "split market" or "green power pool", but the REMA document from the previous Government in March 2024 rejected both of them:
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65eb48...
There's a better explanation of it in this page: hannahritchie.substack.com/p/electricit...
Its a common way of pricing commodities markets apparently. I think the idea is the lowest bidders get taken up first with progressively more expensive ones until the supply matches (predicted) demand. Only that means in the UK even if we use a 5% of gas, it sets the price for the whole half hour.
I wonder if people saying "we should drill more oil and gas out of the North Sea so UK prices are lower" understand that if they want private energy companies to ignore the global market price and supply & demand, they're effectively asking UK Gov to nationalise our bit of the North Sea?
If you're in the UK its partly because the "marginal price" paid for electricity generation is based on the most expensive, last bit of generation needed in any period. And that's usually <drumroll> gas.
Government seriously needs to decouple this stupidity.
Also useful for volunteer "station adopters". At unstaffed stations (and at some supposedly staffed stations where the staff are spread a bit too thinly) we're often the only customer facing folk around.
With recent USA-Israel-Iran war causing a spike in oil and gas prices, I've seen quite a few people saying that accelerating solar take up divorces us from fossil fuels and "you can't blow up the Sun".
Whilst I wholeheartedly agree with the first part, lets not give Trump & US military ideas, eh?
Today we’re making a dead hedge using wood from pruned fruit trees and a downed elder.
Dead wood habitats are extremely important for a whole host of species. We never burn wood or brash or take it off site; it gets turned into dead hedges or log piles.
I guess that's one way to cut ties with the rest of the UK. I would have thought letting the MSPs have another independence vote would have been a bit less messy and dangerous though.
Surely not seeing the M1 is an advantage?
Unless of course you were driving along it....
