Diamond Hell

Sir Bedevere in Monty Python & The Holy Grail holding his face mask up when talking.

One of my Speedglas welding masks is the 'flip up' type, where the whole mask comes up. It's quite old and the side grip on the mask is now worn out, meaning that between welding, when I'm holding it up I feel I have the demeanour of Sir Bedevere from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, so there's that

they're holding their value in a very not-French sort of way, aren't they?

...then being able to pull alongside the guy, toot, wave, drop the window in my car and say "hey, I just wanted to check how you were getting on with the Alfa"

Gobsmacked doesn't really cover his reaction

The best thing about this was selling it to a random bloke from North Yorkshire, then going to see a friend in N. Yorks and seeing the car drive around a roundabout in front of me...

a £250 Alfa Romeo 3.0 V6 fitting in with wealthy people in Beaconsfield

That time 11 years ago I bought an Alfa Romeo 166 3.0 V6 for £250, with no MOT, put it through an MOT and dailied it for a year.

Halcyon days

Or since,, to be fair 😂

It won't have been wasted, because people will keep buying more BEVs because they're cheaper and easier to live with.

It's fine. 🤷

I don't think the requirement for a large percentage to be BEVs will be removed.... But who knows how much the oil and gas lobby is pressuring legislators?

Oh FFS

Yes, anyone in a lobby, or pressure, or political group, or any form of group should declare their interest.

Carnival committees, yacht and sailing clubs, motor clubs. They are all potential conflicts and vested interests. Get them all out in the open, along with home addresses for politicians.

no no, I'm confident any and all secret societies and cabals should be declared and not secret.

We need fewer plotting assholes and less secrecy.

More Yacht Club members around here.

nah, the pricks came and demanded money from my Grandfather, in the hospice a few days before he died.

Those aren't ulterior motives, they're sh*tty values and should get in the sea.

because the Masons have traditionally been a very secretive group, helping each other, promoting the incompetent beyond their competence, without anyone knowing who is a mason.

The fact there is no - let's call it - 'OFPLAN' is the second, or third most WTF thing I am aware of in British politics, after the fact there is no way of holding parish councils and their clerks to account and maybe that there is no competence in police to effectively investigate democracy issues

Of this I am painfully aware.

Funding the function properly would be a more sensible approach, along with creation of an oversight body, like OFCOM etc. Only proper, national, oversight will start a competent fix to the mess that is British planning.

oh, like a LOT, because this is what's going to happen

Can I get a "f*ck, no" from you @ajpbradley.bsky.social and @crackedwindscreen.bsky.social and @brownest-ant.bsky.social ?

Local Partnerships supports Prisoners Building Homes in winning major PropTech funding to scale nationally - Local Partnerships Local Partnerships supports Prisoners Building Homes in winning major PropTech funding to scale nationally - Local Partnerships - PBH, a cross-government

"we're gonna fiiiiiiiiiiix the planning pre-application system with AI"

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President Camacho from Idiocracy

President Camacho says "we're gonna fiiiiiiiix the planning system with AI"

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Are you on non fruit based podcast platforms? I use Castbox

Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

You've just got to make the best of things, like these mid winter Muscovies are, this morning

Adverts in pairs streaming services are one of the most egregious developments in the enshitification of the mid-2020s.

Nothing says 'we got ya now, suckers!' than that

Many clamps holding a truck door skin in place

Bonding the door skin back on tonight.

No one should ever believe they have enough clamps!

Trump putting on a Jim'll fix it badge

There's something extra tragic about him putting it on himself

Having read quite a chunk of the policy document, it really is a juvenile, facile and horrible document that looks particularly problematic if you read it with Umberto Eco's essay on Urfascism to hand

A really ugly boat

Damn, that is one ugly boat!

Already signposted him there, too

Yes, that's already on the table, but Essex is a long way from Plymouth!

My knackered right foot thinks this would be a great way to get around the campsite all summer.

My brain points out I have an elderly mountain bike and aerobic exercise is good for me.