John Henderson

Er, do you reckon you'll still be driving into your 90s? How would we get anywhere when it's 4mi to the bus stop?

According to the Renewable Energy Hub it costs £14k to install a heat pump so you've still got to find £6,500. When we looked at the cost of heat pump and solar we'd have had to live in a house 4mi from the nearest inadequate public transport until I was 90 to get back the cost, even with grants.

The usual reason people in his situation don't install heat pumps and solar panels is they can't afford it.

Yes, their excuse for taking a long time to lower their prices after the rates they buy at drop is always that the stocks they hold were bought at the old prices. They can't have it both ways.

Has anyone looked at whether their choice of nest materials makes a difference. All the ringed plover nests I've seen in the UK have been much better camouflaged.

On rural fuel costs, is LPG likely to be affected in the same way as oil?
We must also stop pegging wholesale electricity prices to the cost of gas powered generation when renewables are taking over. Consumers need to start seeing a financial benefit from the public investment in wind and solar.

The impact the Russian invasion of Ukraine had on our electricity prices because of how it affected gas imports should have been an alarm call for this to be changed, yet two Governments have failed to act.

Is that a real nest? Seems a bit odd that the bird would have assembled a collection of white stones that made its eggs show up more than the egg-coloured surrounding ground.

If Musk wants to go to Mars might it not be an idea if he stopped encasing the planet in his space junk?

I know.

Essential safety precaution on Cybertrucks, though, because anyone stupid enough to buy one is stupid enough to drive off while it's plugged in.

Now you mention it, when I click on weblinks on Bluesky lately a message comes up as the website loads saying "English language detected, do you want to translate it?" and it then pauses as it appears to translate English into English.

You're forgetting that once you've done that it will cost more to replace the clothes so you'll only make a profit if you become a nudist, and it's not yet warm enough for that in most of the northern hemisphere.

This is the first I've seen of it, which is not surprising as when I Googled "Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act" the last mention on any Government or farming website, with only 10 days to go, seems to be when it got Royal Assent in December. A search of Defra's X feed returns no mention of it.

A shame he didn't suffer.

Cybertruck Convertible.

You'd think a former Shadow Foreign Secretary would know Cyprus isn't in the North Atlantic.

Perhaps Farage also dreams of getting a FIFA Peace Prize.

I guess not or they wouldn't do it.
What's stupid is many of these places have nobody living nearby who can see what the lights are illuminating so they're only making it easier for intruders to see what they're doing. Ironically, the lights were stolen from one farmyard during the day.

I'm referring to lights that people leave on all night. As I said, even our nearest neighbour is is ½mi away so they don't interfere with sleep but they still create light pollution so we no longer see the stars as clearly as we used to and they create problems for nocturnal wildlife.

Red Discovery Sport with mud up to the door handles. (We're ½mi from the nearest tarmac road.)

And there I was thinking rain might clean it up a bit.

Was that in "A whey in a manger"?

It somehow manages to achieve a balance between love story, thriller, character piece and anti-nazi propaganda.

I saw it for the first time while home alone and some time later persuaded my wife it was worth seeing when it was on TV. She was a bit sniffy about it beforehand but was soon enthralled by the story.

Disappointed these guns weren't being used as an altar, draped with a suitable cloth and with candles in the barrels, naturally.

It got worse as the availability of low running cost LED lights increased. People who thought twice about all-night floodlights at 500w each feel 100w lights that throw shadows on walls a mile away all night are now essential for "security" on everything from a chapel to a chicken farm.

It's not just in cities. We moved to rural Suffolk, UK, 33 years ago, to a house ½mi from the nearest neighbours, and the darkness has been eroded by growing numbers of privately owned all-night lights around us. People say it's for security but none are on movement sensors.

It's amazing we can't recognise Brexiteers from their lack of noses.

If it's intelligent how come it didn't know where to put the commas?

Those trying to block the assisted dying bill should read this and think about how much suffering it could have saved this woman and her family.