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@Gentleman_Ways I like the PRL look but not sockless and never in England. Maybe in Italy for younger chaps 🇮🇹

I like the look but not sure about the slippers. What say you?

@stillawake @carla_denyer That's known as 'marking your own homework in my world. The public sector is in the habit of protecting itself, its processes & its policies upon which it thrives rather than serving the taxpaying public. Councils represent very few taxpayers given the local election turnouts.

Hi @carla_denyer You say the LGA has provided a glowing review of the Green administration in Bristol. What kind of review do you think the public would give your colleagues? I’ll just ask some housing residents and SEND parents. Maybe some Harbourside residents too.

@MunicipalDreams Commonplace on the Bulbrook Estate, Bracknell, council houses built in the late 50s and 60s. As kids, my aunt insisted that we used the side door to her modern terraced house.

Interesting council house design in Bedford - part of a terrace of single family homes with two 'front' doors. I assume the one of the left gave access to a service area - good for muddy boots, bikes, etc. Tayler and Green did something similar in south Norfolk.

@Type42Type12m See you in Lil's later.

I'm a Stoker, of several Rates, some twice. I stand as creature that will emerge from the dark subterranean bowls of a Leander class frigate. Out for the night in Union Street, in Guzz. The Two Twigs, Ace of Spades and Boobs. Here we Come...

@WestofEnglandCA @NorthSomersetC Majority? 56.7% of 1,273, some 721, respondents out of 1.2 million people across the area? Don't kid yourself. You have no mandate to do anything but you will push on, squandering other people's (taxpayers') money despite the feedback.

It's great to see the majority of people in the West support @NorthSomersetC joining the combined authority. People can see that we are doing things differently, to break with the last nine years and deliver a better future together with more regional powers for everyone across the West.

@stillawake My parish council received a grant from WECA for solar on the village hall roof. The PC engaged a local installer to do the job. It ain't difficult.

Public funds distributed through WECA and Bristol City Council are paying for solar panels. Profits go to US multinational Ameresco. theenergyst.com/bristol-city-l…

@GaryGaryholman So many memories of the early 70s in Intrepid & Tiger including my first attempt at making kai on a middle. OOW asked WTF it was when I returned 🙄

Ever wondered what it was like in the Royal Navy in the early `70`s, well now you can convert your home to resemble the good old days and live the life, as taken from an RN website: 1. Build a shelf in the top of your wardrobe, fit a thin mattress and sleep on top of it. 2. Remove the wardrobe door and replace it with a curtain that is too small. 3. Wash your socks and underpants in the bathroom sink every night, then hang them on the water pipes to dry. 4. Four hours after you have gone to bed, instruct your wife to whip open the curtain, shine a torch in your face and say, "Sorry mate, wrong pit!" 5. When you have a shower, remember to turn the water off when you soap. 6. Every time there is a thunderstorm, sit in a wobbly rocking-chair and rock as hard as you can until you are violently sick. 7. Put diesel oil into a humidifier and set it on high to achieve that wonderful Ship Aroma. 8. Don't watch TV except for a movie at 20:30. For added realism, have the family vote for which movie to have and then select a different one. 9. Leave a lawnmower running in the house to re-create correct noise levels. 10.Have the postman or paperboy give you a haircut fortnightly. 11.Once a week, blow compressed air up your chimney, ensuring that the soot is carried over to your neighbour's home. When he comes to complain, laugh in his face and say "That's life in a blue suit mate" 12.Buy a rubbish compactor, but only use it once a week, storing all of your rubbish in the shower cubicle. 13.Wake up at midnight each night and make a sandwich out of anything you can find. 14.Have a fridge in your home specifically for beer. put a lock on it and give the key to the local policeman. 15.Keep spare keys for above and empty it every lunchtime. 16.Devise your family menu a week in advance without looking in the fridge or freezer. 17.Once a month, take apart every household appliance then re-assemble them. 18.Use four spoonfuls of coffee per cup and wait 3 hours before drinking it. 19.Invite 40 people you don't like, to stay in your house for a couple of months. 20.Install a small fluorescent strip light under your coffee table then lie underneath it to read a book. 21.Raise the thresholds and lower the top sills of all the doors in the house, so you will either bang your head or skin your shins every time you pass through them. 23.Every so often throw one of the kids into the bath and scream "Man overboard!" Sling in a sponge with a flag on it, then run into the kitchen and sweep all the pots and pans onto the floor and yell at your wife for not securing for sea. 24.Get your wife and kids to clean their rooms every evening and at 19:00 wander around the house with the local policeman. 25.Name your favourite shoes "Steaming Bats" then get the kids to hide them around the house. 26.Lie on your bed, or sofa and fart for absolutely no reason. 27.Insist on going to the local post office for your mail and get them to phone you when it is ready for collection. 28.On Saturday morning walk around the house, whistling loudly and insist that everyone you pass stands to attention. 29.Paint the outside of your house battleship grey and put the number on the wall in big black letters. 30.Put windows and a bloody big wheel in your loft. 31.Every Thursday at 05:00 in the morning, run around the house yelling "Hands to Action Stations!" 32. When the family demands more food, yell back at them "WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FOR 39p PER DAY, PER MAN"

@Calavera437 @EmmaManzini If you thought Ms Watson was expensive, take a trip to OKA in Bath or Froxfield nr Hungerford. Brace yourself.

@EmmaManzini @HMofBray Pfff soft furnishing go hard or go home Emma… Start looking at some of those Susie Watson Designs custom made dressers…. He’ll be begging to get off with a just a sixty quid pillow.

Hello. I'm in Marlborough and Mister Manzini has just staged an intervention over a sixty pound cushion.

@Sherelle_E_J Last Friday in Bristol my fishmonger had to dump a dozen hake as they were all infested with codworm in the flesh, not uncommon in the spring. On the other hand, the brill was first class.

Fish lovers are being told to buy hake instead of cod as the population plunges. Let’s get one thing straight. It is *stupefyingly ridiculous* that cod is a national British dish. Why is a fish that is caught in Norway/Russia/Iceland and processed in China and then deep fried to mask its watery, insipid texture considered the epitome of Britishness? While we are reviving Cornish hake, why don’t we end this bewildering habit of catching world-class seafood like spider crabs and langoustines and shipping it straight off to Europe because ewww “we don’t like the look of it”. Also what about delicious, meaty gurnard, abundant in English waters yet immediately exported to France and Spain? I had one in Cornwall once, and it was the most glorious fish I have ever tasted. I for one would be thrilled to see it in the supermarkets and restaurants.

@WestofEnglandCA Covering Webbs Heath, a green field, Green Belt area east of Kingswood, with thousands of houses, concrete and tarmac won't help local wildlife so you could help to stop the development.

Have you noticed that nature is changing?🌿There's evidence that many species are declining across the UK, but we need to know how nature as a whole is changing in the West of England, so that we can make the best decisions about how to help.

@Hantsprints Some of the the staff had changed by September 1972 but not much else. That first haircut was a shocker for some OUTs. A barber in town used to advertise, "College haircuts repaired here."

More of becoming an Officer in the Royal Navy - 1967 ⚓️

In the MoJ in general and HMPPS in particular We have moved from a meritocracy into a demeritocratic gongocracy—where failure is not merely tolerated, but decorated. We have a system where the least effective are not corrected, but honoured—a true demeritocratic gongocracy.

@Leighlines What is @bathnes frightened of? Orcs?

BATH The civilised Romans The industrious Georgians The utterly pointless, Net-Zero, ideologically driven LibDems. Vote them out.

@Leighlines My guess is that @bathnes expects any 5th columnists to park at Lansdown then get the 31 bus to Milsom Street in order to run riot in Union Street. I hope they remember to tap out when alighting & thank the drive.

I’m not being funny but why did the LibDems spend over £8,000,000 on bollarded checkpoints only to leave them open for lorries. Not sure if terrorists care what time they attack. Could it be a C40 city design instead?

@InstituteGC No one wants Blair’s dystopian, controlling, all-seeing digital ID. We didn’t ask for it. We didn’t vote for it. We don’t need it. We didn’t want it when he pushed it the first time. Take the hint.

@stillawake I sat through a 5 yr Environment Agency Thames Waterways budget presentation. At the end, I asked why the data wasn't indexed over the 5 years with inflation then running at 4%. The presenter asked what I meant. The public sector has a cavalier attitude to other people's money.

“Councillors believed the tower would attract tourists on a similar scale to international landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower” Did they. 🧐

🚜🇬🇧 Jeremy Clarkson and Lisa Hogan have launched a bold new push to back British farming. Diddly Squat Farm Shop's major rebrand now has a clear message: “Buying this helps farmers farm” READ MORE: farminguk.com/news/clarkson-…

@CA_TimB It's petty fiddling while Rome, and much of the UK, burns, deteriorates and falls apart. No leadership, no discernable plan, no positive ideas, just ideological "look over there" nonsense to punish rural communities.

The government has published its consultation on trail hunting. Totally unnecessary, unjustified and unfair. Looking forward to hearing Ministers explain how this is a priority for the country gov.uk/government/con…