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Grrr! When you;ve been to the gym. Are shattered. Have climbed the floghts of stairs to get home. And only then realise you left your other glasses in the car! and can't even read what you're typing!

So tell me in terms a simpleton like me can understand: who sets the electricity standing charge? The provider or some quango? Why would it rise 20% in a year? I get that he per usage cost is market and/or cap driven and have to accept that.

I don't like losing an hour's daylight in the evenings...but really, who are theuy trying to kid that this is still "British Summer Time" :)

I hear it's only a scurrilous rumour that the Pope's surgeons called his cancerous growth "Veep". :)

What an irony it would be if we suddenly needed the Bibby Stockholm to confine those lovers of vessels in the Channel the far-right, nonce Bonnets and co because we have no prison spaces left for them :)

At 59, I've seen moves toward reduction in WMDs, the "End of History", the iron curtain, individuals caring and generosity as thy are exposed to problems in the world, laws protecting women, sexual minorities. Yet somehow it feels like it's slipping into barbarism. Am I just being pessimistic?

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church: "Consequently, the Church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person”, and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide."

Going to stand in a queue full of oldies and other decrepits for my jibby jabs today. What can I offer them to put psilocybin in mine I wonder?

If you favourite (!) politicians are squabbling over whether to keep one, two or three rules in place to stop politicians tinkering with the paltry dole they give to retired folk, you should fire them all. They can't see the wood for the twigs on one of the trees. Useless grifters the lot of them.

Even if you are an ardent EU rejoiner, be careful about false promises: THe EU themselves and all its member states have to agree. Trim your sails for now and look to the EFTA/EEA/Customs Union/Schengen agreements for a couple of decades I reckon.

Why does Windows update take so long? I've just checked my internet speed and have c. 100Mb down and up and yet the "September 2026" updates have so far taken over 2 hours just to download. Thank godness y main machine is a Cupertino machine! :)

Sadly I don't think there's parliamentary time during party conference season to legislate to give Basingstoke magistrates the power to summarily execute people before tomorrow morning. But we can dream I suppose!

I'm a single person living in a c.45sq m new build flat and I've just had my first "proper" water bill suggesting I'm using an average of 350l per day. How the hell do I get to 350l per day I wonder? Short showers 2x a week. Efficient washing machine, same. Very odd!

Maybe of course the UK security agencies are just better at concealing them than in the USA, but I'm not sure we actually have enough blacksite prisons to cope with Tommo, Ten-names and the Nonce Bonnets do we? Maybe Diego Garcia could be repurposed now it's back on the table apparently? :)

So, at a time of soaring fuel costs, my energy company is cutting 25%, one whole quarter, off the price they pay for electricity exported from my PVs. Extraordinary!

Sometimes I think "two tier justice" is what occurs when you don't use a Border Force cutter to blow a hole in a protestor's ickle dingy!

Please, lord, let Belmarsh have at least one bunk space available.

“By their deeds will you know them” Matt 7:16

Places I "lived" from 0 years to 18 years: Anlaby London Belfast Fraserburgh Iringa Milltimber Panal Nairobi Panal South Cave Kibworth Willerby Houston Schools during that time: Iringa Milltimber Kirby Overblow Cavina Hymers Kibworth Smallwood Aldenham Denstone Any wonder I've been a wreck?

Petition: Launch a public inquiry into the impact of Section 28 on LGBTQ people We call on the Government to launch a public inquiry into the impact of Section 28 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

There's just something so lyrical about an Irish accent saying "abhorrent individual" and "convicted felon". :)

I'm all for secession really! But if you plan to secede and then declare yourself some kind of a monarchy and invite fascist mercenaries to your press photoshoots, you were never good liberals anyway. Away with you! But I think you might have been happier joining Buckinghamshire!

So we can now legitimately describe Rupert Lowe as a traitor if he is supporting secessionism?

I hear the Piddington Tourism Marketing Board has got its first attempt at a slogan: "Visit Piddington: it's nearly Brill"

The Piddington Airlift is getting underway.

Is the Red Rose 108 bus from Oxford to Bicester being diverted rom today then? Or do I need to take a passport?

Just because: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fySW...

Two minutes isn't a shower. It's a dowsing. How do you clean yourself in two minutes? 😆

If only the various pit wall strategists and crews in F1 had all the knowledge and vision of the commenters on social media. They'd never make a mistake and they'd all win, every weekend!

I would love to have seen them racing on the oval layout at Monza.

Why is my fairly minimal UK home contents insurance premium rising by about 33% for the coming year? Never claimed. More secure property if anything. Has government done something or it is the insurers grifting?

Remarkable how quickly nature begins to bounce back after just a couple of days of rain. There was no hint of green in the grass on Friday.

I got my first notice of what my little solar PV panels have "earned" me in the past three months. Roughly 150% of my total energy expenditure over the same time, even though I only get 80% of the money value per kw compared with consumption and have to pay standing charge on consumption!

So I see the pompous papaya prepuce has decided to name a lake after a Welshman!

Oh dear! What has @ipaper.bsky.social done with its puzzles section today. They are unplayable. Better find a different distraction I suppose!

I suspect handing out ice-creams for 99p today in Clacton would be seen as treating, even if it is policy. Dammit!

There is no way they got Trump into one of these:

It would have been so funny if Zia Yusuf had been denied entry to Ceuta. Spain, you missed a trick there! 😂