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@WillKnocker @SamaHoole @LateAgitations It's just a fraction. One and one-tenth.

@SamaHoole @LateAgitations What does 110% mean? It's mathematical gobbledegook...

Britain is 110% self-sufficient in lamb. Let that sink in for a moment. Not "pretty good." Not "mostly fine." One hundred and ten percent. We grow more than we eat and export the rest. We have done this on permanent upland pasture that cannot be used for anything else, managed by farmers whose families have worked the same ground for generations, using animals that have been optimised for these conditions over centuries. 85% self-sufficient in beef. 100% in milk. 90% in eggs. The animal products on your plate, if you're eating in Britain, are almost certainly British. The supply chain is: farm, abattoir, butcher or supermarket. Measured in miles. Sometimes in tens of miles. Now. Your January strawberries are from Egypt. Your year-round peppers are from Spain or Morocco. Your salad leaves are from Israel in winter. Your green beans come from Kenya. Your blueberries are from Peru or Chile. They travel by refrigerated air freight, which is roughly fifty times more carbon-intensive per kilogram than road transport, to sit in a plastic clam shell next to a small flag and the word "fresh." The environmental argument against British animal products is not an environmental argument. It is a geography argument made by people who have not checked where their food comes from. Check where your food comes from.

@bagshaw2112 Don't forget the lovely gifts in the Golden Gift Collection

Today’s #retro #memory . Look at the price of these ! I remember trying these at 15 and was nearly sick, then tried Consulate because they were supposed to be minty lol . 18 and half. Pence ! How much nowadays ??

@TheStourbridge @NoCatsNoLife_m Is that a sash you're wearing George?

@NoCatsNoLife_m *smirks innocently as only one of the orange order would

Always orange 🍊

@carl_stein_ @bobsgray @BladeoftheS "we enter winter stockpiled the cheapest gas" We have a notional 12 days max gas storage. Earlier this month we were down to less than 48 hours gas reserve.

Good question you have a few factors coming together. 1. On my dullest winter day I got 2KWh/day, on a sunny winter it was 6KWh, my average needs 10KWh/day so on average about 1/3rd of my electricity needs from my solar. 2. I have a 10KWh battery, I recharge it off-peak when the proportion of windpower of the grid power is maximum - the time of day when least gas burned. Take a look at today is typical when gas is minimum the price is minimum. 3. Gas is cheaper in the summer to buy on the market so if we get summer gas usage down we enter winter stockpiled the cheapest gas. Ideally if we can gas usage to nil outside of winter we've changed from burning gas 90% of the time burning <25% of the time with direct reduction in all our electricity bills. 4. As more get solar, more wind, more batteries, we erode gas year-on-year til it's only winter used and eventually as more nuclear comes online we barely ever burn gas til eventually we've stopped it - like we did with coal.

In the UK most houses could have all of their power supplied by Solar Panels for 2/3rds of year If we had done this we would already be almost completely fossil fuel free The panels last 40-60 years, the batteries cost £500 and last for 15 years It's basically free electricity

@calmeilles Your firewall still running on Token Ring?

Turns out I don't have a 16Mbps internet connection at all. I have a 274.09 Mbps with a 16Mbps bottleneck at my firewall. Feckity feckity feckity feck! How embarrassing.

@fesshole Never mind, just shop in B&M and you can buy the same glittery mirrors as he does.

I was very good at football as a kid but hated the game and the people playing it, so never pursued it. Just learned a friend who I was easily better than is earning £35,000 per month. I do wonder if I was a little hasty back then. My lower tier admin job doesn't quite pay that.

@MichaelDnes1 @BenGrahamUK Cost reduction isn't cheap, you know.

@BenGrahamUK This project had the unfortunate accolade of starting cost-reduction exercise costing £1.2bn, and finishing it a) smaller and b) £300m more expensive.

£1.5 billion for 21 miles of road. That’s £70 million per mile for the A14 Cambridge–Huntingdon upgrade. No tunnels. No megacity constraints. Just standard infrastructure. This is why nothing gets built in Britain anymore.

@BenGoldsmith Wouldn't it be easier to just raise the road up a bit, with some culverts underneath?

'We're not getting rid of the water fast enough' I cannot emphasise enough how insane it is to spend barrels of public money pumping water out of a *wetland*. We are draining an ecological treasure to protect some of the crappest farmland in England. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@archetypal1mage @DeborahMeaden Engineering has been around for thousands of years.

@DeborahMeaden Engineering? The levels have been around for thousands of years

The Somerset levels are flood plains…long term resilient engineering that allows them to do their job… as in flood, are essential and ultimately inevitable or huge swathes of property will be overwhelmed.

@ElecSafetyFirst I'd be slightly worried if that BS546 plug were actually used in my home. It has unsleeved pins. @ArtElectrics @proelectrician

🔌 There are lots of plugs in your home but whichones do what? Our product safety manager, Steve Curtler, explains the difference: ow.ly/GTQJ50Ywh5o The most common? The UK 3-pin plug, which comes in various designs for everyday appliances.

@TheStourbridge Oh dear. I think we should all club together and buy the vet n hairy an Easter present of acevetsupplies.co.uk/products/infra…

Just a check up at the vets Now… I don’t wish to be dramatic… but I feel that term was used… quite loosely. There was… unexpected interaction… …and what I can only describe as… an overly familiar thermometer. I may also… become mysteriously unavailable at 17:50.

@Electra88007 And nowadays there is no Mr Porter to ask for assistance.

Seen on the door display of a Pendolino at Warrington just a few minutes ago. And you just know there’ll be someone on there wanting Crewe or Stafford……🤔

@TheStourbridge Next mission: how to kill a microphone.

After the recent alleged rat incident I have started my comeback training. Left paw. Right paw. Springy puff defeated. Rat… you’re next. 🥊🐈 Then treatos

@sarahlicity @dimenpsyonal To be closely followed by the Dooms-Patersons and Barker-Finches?

@dimenpsyonal I'm surprised Farringdon–Barbican and Moorgate–Liverpool Street hasn't gone the way of Bank–Monument yet.

"Bank" and "Monument" stations being the same station with different names but "Hammersmith" being two different stations with the same name will never make sense to me

@CentralFMNews Should shop at Aldi rather than Tesco.

Falkirk Foodbank has issued an "urgent" appeal for donations. The group say their supplies are running "very low". They provided 7,000 food parcels last year across the Falkirk area.

@jameshoggarth @andycomfort Annie and Clarabel getting up to naughties with the soapsuds in the carriage washer?

@andycomfort Is Thomas a little poorly today? James is tired and stayed in the shed all cozy and warm?

All the ingredients are here for a railway service. We’ve got the driver. The conductor. The passengers. But there’s something missing. Don’t tell me. I’ll get there in the end…🚂

@SalCambio @wylfcen Cows need summer grass for calving and milking. Oxen needed for winter ploughing.

@wylfcen I wonder about this "summer-cow, winter-ox" rule. I wonder why this was a sensible measure back then.

Did you know welfare is an Anglo-Saxon tradition? Here’s a law from Wessex in 694 AD↓

@CentralFMNews But no money for Clackmannanshire RAAC victims who weren't covered by insurance? @snpclacks @BrianLeishmanMP @_KevinWells

UPDATE: The First Minister says the fire next to Glasgow's Central Station has caused "enormous" damage. John Swinney's also confirmed his government is willing to help the city council with the "significant" financial consequences.

Network Rail say Glasgow Central train station will remain closed "until further notice". It's after a huge fire broke out in a nearby vape shop in a B-listed Victorian building on Union Street yesterday, which led to the building collapsing. No casualties have been reported.

@jwflame "coloured". Thank you.

Like colored chalk, wirenuts are forged by Lucifer himself.

@MAPESAMOSES037 @fesshole If she can't sleep, 2 am would be a great time to do some off-peak ironing too.

@fesshole Sometimes the body reacts to sounds or routines without us realizing. Those 2 a.m. wake-ups weren’t mysterious at all, they were just your appliances politely reminding her it’s “time to save electricity.”

Wife went to doctor as she'd regularly wake up at exactly 2am with no explanation. He prescribed vitamins. On the way to the shop I remembered that I've set the washing machine, dishwasher and dryer to come on at 2am to save on electricity. They all beep when they start running