At National Grid, we're all about celebrating diversity, equality and inclusion ❤️⚡️
This Pride Month, our colleagues from our Pride ERG (employee resource group) are passing their flags on to show support for the LGBTQ+ community 🌈
Today at 1pm, subject to weather, serviceability, & operational requirements, over 30 aircraft will take to the skies above London and over Buckingham Palace to celebrate His Majesty The King’s Official Birthday following the King’s Birthday Parade (Trooping the Colour).
A few years back we replaced our old clunky floor standing central heating boiler (which used to wake up our then baby son every time it fired up) with a new, less clunky, wall mounted one.
Along with the new boiler came a new wireless programmer to replace the old wired one. The British Gas salesperson tried very hard to sell me something called Hive, which apparently would allow me to change my central heating settings remotely, a solution for a non existent problem if ever I saw one. As for the wireless programmer, it's been sat in exactly the same spot on a shelf in the hall ever since the new boiler was installed, so it might as well have been a wired one. I have no desire to carry a programmer around the house with me every day, and fiddle with it (the programmer that is) while I'm in the bath, or on the cludgie, or cooking far right beef curry.
Unfortunately, on a regular basis we wake up in the morning with no heating, because even though the programmer has sent the the "SWITCH ON THE HEATING, GODDAMMIT!" message to the control unit in the airing cupboard and has cheerily turned on the little gas flame on the display to show the heating is on, the pump in the airing cupboard is still fast asleep, unaware that the Alan family is freezing its collective nuts off, because the central heating is most definitely not on.
This NEVER happened in the bad old clunky boiler days,presumably because any START THE HEATING, GODDAMMIT! messages which are sent down a physical wire never get lost.
Anyway, it's just yet another example of technological "progress" not always living up to the hype.
I suppose once we have a government mandated heat pump, I'll be on here wearing gloves and a hat waxing nostalgic about the good old days when our house temperature reached the heady heights of 20 degrees Celsius.🙄
This government is cracking down on the vile degenerates who make sexually explicit ‘deepfakes’.
We’re introducing a new law to ban the creation of these distressing and abusive images.
Today. Shocking 🤯. 30 years ago we hardly saw any pavement parking, now it is ubiquitous. This is an extension of that selfish behaviour, which isn't admonished by society or authorities due to said attitudes and cultures and a lack of enforcement, money, and legal authority.
All UK Airports will close by 2029 & Beef and Lamb will be banned for Human Consumption to meet Climate Scam Targets according to UK Gov. Report – The Expose expose-news.com/2024/04/08/all…
Oh, would you look at that!
The world has spent the week accusing Israel of targeting World Central Kitchen volunteers & now we know Hamas was riding with the vehicles.
And now you can also see those volunteers hanging with their Hamas friends.
Isn’t that interesting? What a shocker, said no one ever!
As always, a reminder to never believe the things you read in the press, especially if it’s regarding Israel.
Lies, lies, and more lies!
Oppenheimer has been released in Japan, eight months after its global release.
We spoke to historian Naoko Wake to learn why the U.S. refuses to take accountability for the war crimes it committed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and why all of this is relevant to us today.