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Amen to this. In so many industries for people to progress they are expected to leave an area they’re good at/love and move into management.

We see in STEM careers many leave and set themselves up as consultants rather than go into management.

What I can’t understand is how hybrids will be charged?

An EV you can go from the odometer. But does PHEV record how much time it’s in electric only mode?

And people wonder why there’s a productivity issue.

If something as simple as asking for the correct prescription takes ten calls and all that wasted time

The UK is such an outlier.

We have to close the spark gap. Sooner rather than later.

Given this is a policy change, government should be able to act relatively quickly.

Oooooh do tell all?! What make is the pan?

I find Your Party's frequent use of AI very illuminating. Because when they talk about workers, they clearly do not include in that a large number of Arts sector and 'knowledge' workers. I suspect they regard them with contempt. Which is one of the many reasons they are not going to get far.

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.

Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph

Because this does NOT add up!

No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…

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Do it!!!

Kitsch retro is the way forward!

Currently running at 4.22 since installation last December.

Have adjusted our DHW schedule in June which now should improve efficiency even more.

Plus solar being added in Jan/Feb so even lower costs.

Currently sat around £600 for the year. Entire house is 21C.

Boilers suck. ASHPs rock.

Ooft. That doesn’t sound like fun. glad to hear you’re ok apart from a few bits of fabric.

Enjoy the future!! 🤩

A screenshot of Open Energy Monitor yesterday COP was 5.10 (so the ASHP was 510% efficient yesterday, on November 28th)

This was yesterday!

Bloody love heat pumps.

A photo taken of a front garden. A low wall is currently being built and is covered in plastic. A hedge in front of it has been cut down low. All the cut off branches are to the right on the lawn

A close up photo taken of a front garden. A low wall is currently being built and is covered in plastic. A hedge in front of it has been removed and the garden bed dug over.

A photo of a group of hedging plants cut down, removed and thrown on a lawn

Today is a sad day.

We planted this hedge two years ago..

I made a mistake when choosing it & opted for blackthorn (thinking oooh sloes. Love them in gin).

It’s dangerous by the footpath & it suckers & spreads. Plus it’s preventing me building the new wall.

So today I started taking it out

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Yes but (and please don’t take this the wrong way as I’m also an EV driver curious how this will be implemented)

Petrol VAT = 20%
Public charging VAT = 20%
Home electricity VAT = 5%
Home solar charging VAT = 0

They have to do something. But the mechanics I don’t think is well thought out.

Baa-rly awake at this time of the morning

Ugh I hate how people just don’t seem to be concentrating. Glad it wasn’t too bad

Oh no nightmare. I’m sorry to hear.

🫂

Hope the car isn’t too badly damaged

Impulse purchases at the market today.

4 mangos.
A bunch of fresh methi

Will dehydrate both overnight for long term storage

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Hahaha! This wasn’t even anything mainstream - which I think imho makes it even worse

It’s grim isn’t it.

I was listening to Spotify and a track came on which I thought sounded good. But wasn’t an artist I recognised.

Googled them. Turns out they were AI generated. 🤦‍♂️

It’s soul destroying.

6 I think is just a little too bright I think.

This is what we do every year now!

It’s such a fun day. Last year we took four people in & had a Christmas dinner fondue together 😁

We ate with an Iranian asylum seeker, a 59yr old antiques dealer, a 68 yr old lady whose dad was in hospital, & a young Canadian guy who recently moved to Newcastle.

Labour ditches day-one protection from unfair dismissal in U-turn The right will now be introduced after six months, in a breach of Labour's election manifesto.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

So this manifesto pledge is ok to be broken.

But Reeves can’t possibly raise tax or scrap the triple-lock pension because she would be breaking manifesto pledges.

Right. Gotcha. When it benefits workers too bad. When it benefits businesses or non-workers, fair game

Net migration has fallen again to 204,000, the lowest level since 2021 and is forecast to continue falling over the coming years.

Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"

at £45 it was an absolute steal!

Better than the ikea kallax that it’ll be replacing

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A piece of wallpaper stood up against a green wall. The wallpaper is green and blue flowery swirls

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A piece of wallpaper stood up against a green wall. The wallpaper is light blue, with pink birds of paradise flowers and green BOP leaves on it

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A piece of wallpaper stood up against a green wall. The wallpaper is dark blue with a light yellow birds and leaves on it

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A piece of wallpaper stood up against a green wall. The wallpaper is dark blue with tree branches and pops of orange and pink flowers

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A mahogany drinks cabinet placed against a green wall. Inside is some wallpaper.

A piece of wallpaper stood up against a green wall. The wallpaper is black with vibrant blue, yellow, purple and green leaves

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