What's going on with all these emergency warnings and the need to #stockpile supplies etc? Everyone here is asking, why? What do the Government know or expect that they aren't telling us? Treating us like little children who cannot be told the truth, just "do as we say". Personally, we don't have the money or the spare room to store all these "essentials", but we would try, IF we knew the reason.
Have just been woken up by the local electricity provider to tell me that our power is out because of Storm Boelo. Nothing else is wrong, just an inconvenience at the moment! Hope everyone else is OK?
Just checked my messages, and their initial forecast for restoration of power is 8pm tonight. Thank goodness we still have a gas fire and a gas hob for cooking!
Just spoken to Electricity North West and they tell me the forecast (worst case) is now 8pm on 27th. There is a problem on the High Voltage network and there are about 950 properties affected.
If you ever think English is not a weird language just remember that read and lead rhyme and read and lead rhyme. But read and lead don't rhyme, and neither do read and lead.
Springing forward into clock chaos There are LOADS of studies out there that highlight how illogical the practice is - here are just a few of the ones I ment...
Explanation: This is an unusual rainbow. For one thing, the rainbow is not complete, appearing only in a sunlit fan -- but that by itself is not very unusual. What is most unusual is the fake location of the Sun. The Sun appears to be toward the front, just below those hills -- but it is not. That is not how rainbows work. Rainbows involve a backward reflection from falling rain, so that the Sun must really be behind you. In this case, gaps between clouds near the setting Sun allowed rays to cross the entire sky and appear to converge in front, an unusual phenomenon called anticrepuscular rays. The photo was taken with a phone last week at sunset in Presenzano, Italy. The seemingly reverse rainbow was noticed when hanging up laundry.
Fossil fuel companies keep raking in obscene profits while our bills soar and our planet gets hotter. We can’t keep paying while they profit. Our governments must break free from oil and gas. We can't leave this to the market.
When I was 'courting' my wife, all those years ago, she thought "I want to Iron his shirts forever" We celebrated our 50th anniversary yesterday, and our son bought us this present! He brought the iron and the box, forgot the case, so I will post them together at another time.
UK people: the Open Rights Group asks us to write to our MPs, asking them to support an Early Day Motion calling on the UK Government to use decentralised platforms such as Fedi for announcements instead of toxic, privacy-invasive networks like Facebook and X. It also asks for Government advertising to be placed with local and national newspapers rather than with large American social networks.
What’s going on? Tell your MP to support the 'Public sector communications, decentralised platforms and local journalism' EDM (Early Day Motion) 411, tabled by Siân Berry MP.
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