Giles Wright

You've got to pay £200 for the survey, but if they can't do it or you decide not to go ahead then you get it back. Otherwise it comes off the install price. I'm hoping it's installation price and ongoing cost prediction. Hopefully with our solar and 15kWh batteries we'll be saving a fair bit.

Got Octopus coming over on Monday to survey for an ASHP. They came out a couple of years ago but it wasn't suitable for our house then. They've now got a 12kW "Cosy 12" option so hopefully it will work with our mix of microbore pipes and wet UFH. And with our solar and 15kWh of batteries, cheaper?

This Sarwar?

Murmuration tonight, North Newcastle.

This amused me greatly 😂 especially the fox painting 😂

Thank yoooo @cheekybudgie.bsky.social

My BirdNet Pi tells me there was a Gadwall out the back of our house this morning. Will have to keep an eye out.

Oh my god he’s coming for Pluto now.

I don’t know why, but I love this.

Bluesky Twitter account: NEW FEATURE: This button allows you to opt out of having images you post on X turned into porn Plus image of the create new account button on bluesky

Bluesky going to work over on Twitter

LOOK AT HIS NOSE!!! #dogsofbluesky

Used to have an SGI Octane 2. Lovely.

POISON MONKEY!

I’m not reading all that etc etc.

Reform UK Ltd. The People’s Party. The party that speaks to the ‘regular man in the street’. Here’s September’s image from the new CWS/John Heartfield calendar, featuring those ‘regular man in the street’ billionaire Reform donors.
See link in pinned post.

With new wetland development at #GosforthNatureReserve, now is an exciting time to take a look at how this new habitat is already encouraging more wildlife at the reserve.

Many Little Egrets have been spotted feeding in the mud where the reeds have been cleared, which is a great sign!

📸Kris Dawson

'This isn't an opinion. This is counting.'

On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.

I’ve been running an assertiveness training course for ten years and no one’s ever complained so it’s either brilliant or awful.

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

spot on

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time - "I had grasped the significance of the silence of the dog, for one true inference invariably suggests others.... Obviously the midnight visitor was someone whom the dog knew well."

Aurora over Bamburgh, Northumberland last night.

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

The bend on that! This isn't far from where we sit, great to see it captured how we experienced it. #nurc

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

This is excellent data journalism from Sky about something a lot of us on here have known for a long time. It's a shame the BBC doesn't have the courage for this kind of work anymore (& It is untenable for the government to remaIn on there, but they will anyway).

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Farage: epic grifter

That Condor Moment NHSN library and archive volunteer Julia Black explores the life and legacy of the Hancock Museum's very own condor While preparing the Summary for one of the recently digitised NHSN Transactions, I w...

Did you know that Great North Museum: Hancock once had its own live condor? Us neither, until our brilliant volunteer Julia found it in our Society Transactions: www.nhsn.org.uk/that-condor-...

Ambassador Mike Huckabee @GovMikeHuckabee I assure you she’s delusional. She can thank @realDonaldTrump anytime just to set the record straight. Quote Sky News @SkyNews · Oct 12 'We've played a key role behind the scenes in shaping this' Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says the UK government has been involved in diplomatic efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza. https://trib.al/GMH8aBc #TrevorPhillips 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube 1:40 PM · Oct 12, 2025 · 2.2M Views

Special Envoy Steve Witkoff @SEPeaceMissions I would like to acknowledge the vital role of the United Kingdom in assisting and coordinating efforts that have led us to this historic day in Israel. In particular, I want to recognize the incredible input and tireless efforts of National Security Advisor Jonathan Powell. 6:53 AM · Oct 13, 2025 · 657.1K Views

Oops. ~AA

Cartoon of a social gathering. A man is talking to a vampire. The man says "Welcome, Count Dracula. Would you like a small aperitif?". The vampire replies "No, I think mine are just the right size".

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SHOCK POLL: NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW IN an amazing poll conducted by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like. However, 99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.