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@mikedugdale

Pyrénées dweller; brexiled, guest house operator and occasional cyclist. Hates building hot tubs but it's too late to stop now. www.pyreneescyclingcentre.co.uk

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Moving the goalposts is an excellent way of winning the war though 🤔

11.03.2026 22:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don't think that's how any of Trump's inner circle got their jobs.

11.03.2026 22:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm on the same boat, although not launched yet. Have you just used hot water storage or do you have batteries as well?

11.03.2026 22:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What are people on here doing for batteries?
Purpose built such as Duracell or the other American brand?
Lithium-Ion, Lead acid, anything else?
I've built my own with 3 lead acids for a total of 36v and 240Ah but the cost of just the batteries has doubled since buying them a few years ago.

11.03.2026 22:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There are some fairly low and startlingly high prices in there.
The major difference I can see in the blurb is how well the panel stands up to severe weather.
Is that your understanding?
Thanks

11.03.2026 22:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was about to say...
Batteries = inverters doesn't it?
Diverters though... Do you have a link please?

11.03.2026 22:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A kind of 7up of arse-firweork-man would solve the "What shall we put on our banknotes?" question for many years to come.
Unless Darwin gets him first.

11.03.2026 22:22 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nocturnal British wildlife.
Why not?

11.03.2026 22:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That's only 20% less (fewer?) than the House of Commons toilet cisterns.

11.03.2026 18:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Couldn't we have that splendid Victorian statesman doing some badger baiting on our fiver?

11.03.2026 18:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No, they're all 'good tories'

11.03.2026 18:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah but that wouldn't stop him.

11.03.2026 13:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is that prick son-in-law in Succession using the prick cousin as a foot stool.

11.03.2026 13:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Haha! Not on my account I hope.
I'm temporarily entirely uninterested in Corbyn or AS as long as merely being on the same social media platform as those words can guarantee apoplexy in some quarters

11.03.2026 13:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wasn't actually talking about anything Polanski said. I was just making a very general point about the difficulty and futility of defining englishness. I sincerely hope he doesn't make a serious attempt to .

11.03.2026 13:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This might have to become your pinned tweet Rikki.

11.03.2026 13:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

FFS! If we bale out the fossil fuel industry every time it goes tits up (and we do), then Reform, the Tories and the other hard of thinking will continue to believe renewable energy is more expensive.
The cost of keeping the Strait of Hormuz open should go directly onto a litre of fuel.

11.03.2026 13:26 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Defining 'englishness' is difficult, not to say impossible. And it's also pointless since tomorrow it will have changed.

11.03.2026 13:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Why? What did it say?

10.03.2026 18:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I still remember those grainy images though I was only 6. Dad got us up to watch it live as well.
I also remember watching the people clinging to helicopter skids as the last Americans were evacuated from the roof of the US Embassy in Vietnam.

10.03.2026 14:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Of course law abiding, safe products with legit carriers are going to take the detour to Sevington (and increase their costs)
And of course the cowboys and purveyors of rotten meat are heading for a South London lockup to transfer their rotting cargo to anonymous vehicles.

09.03.2026 22:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Not just another Epstein distraction?

09.03.2026 22:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Never mind who won. Did the guy on the right stay up?

09.03.2026 22:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And the only question left is,
What will be the next distraction?

09.03.2026 22:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fuck me. Is it?

09.03.2026 22:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No, apparently on the contract with the private waste contractor the fine is per battery.

09.03.2026 15:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

She won't forget next time 😉

09.03.2026 15:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Add one word to a film to ruin it.

Goodbye Mr Fish+Chips

09.03.2026 15:12 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I think this is how we know they aren't going to allow free and fair elections.

09.03.2026 15:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Only Blair and Thatcher believe in the special relationship and one of them's dead. (Not entirely sure which one.)

09.03.2026 15:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0