Stuart Hedges

Someone just emailed to ask me how to open a particular file format. I don't even work in IT.

Wasn't it just.

Proper #DoctorWho fans will know all this already of course but it had never occurred to me to look before. Amazing stuff.

Jon Pertwee - Wikipedia

Watching The Sea Devils and I was struck by Pertwee's impeccable radio procedure, which reminded me that any actor his age would have seen war service. Quite an incredible career.

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It's a completely different animal but I genuinely think 2010 is a better film than 2001. I love 2001 of course but I genuinely think you won't understand it if you haven't read the book - which is a pretty major flaw.

Oh god mine do this. "Well we didn't want to worry you"

And what is the name of the episode?

Charlie X

Oof

It's less obvious here but back on X I just knew that if I saw a transphobic comment I could look at the profile and find racism or any other -ism too. Climate change denial too, bizarrely, never did understand that link.

You can't pick and choose who you support, right? All or none.

I have had this row with someone who was at Greenham Common and wears the white poppy and claims to be a feminist and an LGB ally and I just don't understand.

I've never seen food writing like this. Vittles is doing something really new.

My copy arrived today and I've read a fraction of it. It's more than a magazine, something new that I can't quite define. The writing is dense, beautiful and always fascinating. I've learned loads and I'm not even half way through.

The house next door is being rebuilt after a fire and the noise of the genny has been annoying me, this story is almost enough for me to offer an extension cable to the site manager. The cost to me will be negligible, I'd rather pay a couple of quid than risk this.

Sixteen people treated after carbon monoxide leak in Hastings South East Coast Ambulance Service says seven people were hospitalised after the leak in Hastings.

This is awful and I hope everyone will be ok but... Don't we all think we should stop burning stuff? A battery the size of a traditional diesel genny would happily run lighting and power tools all day.

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Follow Emma. These debunking threads are just absolutely brilliant.

I heard this on the Radio 6 news this morning, they just presented the figure without any context. I thought it was weird, I literally didn't know what to think of it. I have no idea if that's good value or not, nor do I really care - the inquiry is important and needs to be done.

I would not get a tattoo but if I did..!

The Unbearable Torment of Bear Bear Bear Concerning an unexpected window, an unchristmassy fuhrer, an unlucky publisher, and an unaware bear.

Like everyone else caught up in the Unbound “drama”, John Finnemore is working out what to do with a book that was terminated with incompetent prejudice by people who vanished.

If you would like a lovely Xmas gift, he’s opened a shop, announced in this post here!

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Hello from the UK! I know the public charging infrastructure over there isn't as good as it is here but PHEVs already look really silly in Europe. There just isn't a use case for them anywhere.

92 here, which is roughly half of what the heat pump used. Half price heating for November isn't bad!

You're probably right, we don't know yet - I just think it hands the anti clean tech lobby a great headline!

This is, as always, a nuanced and well-informed rant. I think all we EV drivers knew that some sort of tax was coming but I maintain it's a bad look to introduce a new tax for EVs without reintroducing the fuel tax escalator.

Not bad economics, poor politics.

I've been seeing a lot of these around as well, interesting backstory!

I haven't driven any myself but I keep up with reviews, the consensus seems to be that recent Chinese cars have left European brands in the dust...

I've been forced by circumstance to end a friendship and it's no fun at all. I don't have any advice beyond nod politely and move away, but it is difficult. My sympathies.

Sultana and Corbyn act like they were put together in a competition by Simon Cowell and now they're contractually obliged to go on tour

Steady on old chap.

We thank the bus driver.

I know a little about the telecoms world and this is certainly true for mobile phones. An awful lot of people are paying more than they need to.

This is extraordinary. The high street here is shared-use (pedestrianised with vehicles allowed for deliveries and disabled access) and I frequently see drivers bullying pedestrians out of the way by revving engines, coming too close and sounding horns. I fear this will happen here.

Trust me, it's not common inside the public sector either.

An open letter, and an invoice for €59.94, to Alberto Mazzola, boss of Community of European Railways - Jon Worth Dear Alberto, It is a little odd for me, a blogger and campaigner, to be writing an open letter to you as Executive Director of Community of European Railways (CER). But the combination of circumstanc...

My #CrossBorderRail trip from Brugge 🇧🇪to Nuits-sous-Ravières 🇫🇷has gone so badly, and will leave me €59.94 out of pocket

So Alberto Mazzola of @cer-railways.bsky.social is getting an open letter and an invoice for €59.94 from me

Here's the letter 👇
jonworth.eu/an-open-lett...