Kate de Selincourt

Kitchen with sink and hob backing onto an un-finished (one assumes deliberately) concrete block wall

This one tbf not quite so insanely priced (for Hackney), but have fun getting the grease spots out of those breezeblocks 😅https://themodernhouse.com/sales-list/lode

Anyone currently working on the Home Energy Model consultation? I’d be happy to share views early next week. In summary there’s a tension btwn cost / granularity /consumer engagement / quality. In particular, consider what is appropriate for an EPC (valid ten years) vs a retrofit assessment.

Trouble is the people who genuinely benefit are pretty much a fully separate group from the people it was developed for, I imagine?

Can't believe this merited an "announcement".

The public sector is spending very many times more than that fixing a crumbled stretch of road near my village, I think the nation should be told....

A diagram showing how a 2 minute delay to an active travel trip reduces the accessible area from a 15-minute trip by 25%

As I was made to wait 2.5 minutes to cross a road this morning, let's again do the maths simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...

To me the idea of a holiday in Dubai feels disturbing and slightly aversive in the same way as an AI "friend", or plastic grass.

(Like Hunca Munca's disappointment with the plaster dolls house food, if you read Beatrix Potter when you were little.)

NEW: Ferry pollution is worse than all the cars combined in many European port cities… but more than half of European ferries could be electric by 2035.

With the average ferry being 26 years old, the fleet is ripe for renewal now.
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Would love to read this - can I pretend to be a doctor or will it rumble me?
(🧑‍⚕️<- dressing up clothes )

Very good

Fare dodgers targeted as train ticket refund rules are tightened In a bid to clamp down on ticket fraud that costs the railways millions each year, the government has quietly changed the rules on claiming refunds for unused train tickets.

DON'T BUY TRAIN TICKETS IN ADVANCE!
On 1 April, the government is quietly changing the rules.
Off-Peak & Anytime tickets become non-refundable after 23:59 the day BEFORE you travel.
If you wake up & find your event cancelled, NO REFUNDS, even on £100+ tickets.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/far...

"I cannot tell a lie. Well, I can, and furthermore I will double down on it and fabricate evidence to back it up. But if you are persistent enough I will cave, throw my hands up, and admit I was lying all along...."

If you had to work with someone like this, wouldn't you go a tiny bit bonkers?

God help all of us

They'll be discovering 'going for a nice walk round the park and eating my sandwich on the bench' next

To get a bit meta, Twitter is probably kidding Starmer &co into thinking that aggressive exaggerated divisiveness is how we all think. And perhaps affected how he thinks. So he has projected that mindset onto Thursday's Green voters, without bothering to investigate what did draw them to that choice

It's very sad to see. And there's clearly a good number of Labour MPs who have had more than enough of this and are saying as much..Did you hear Karl Turner on the radio today - he wasn't holding back

"Labour seems to have been pining for the demographic that voted for it in the 1970s – older, manual workers in small towns."

So, Maurice Glasman's mum, basically.

Aye. I don't know why I was, once again, disappointed in Labour, but for some reason I still expect better 😞

Drop in overseas workers is ‘car crash’ for UK hospitals and care homes, say experts Care roles hit particularly hard by UK’s lurch to the right on migration, according to analysis of Home Office data

Presumably the door is now wide open for Reform to nip round the back of Labour and say "...but not nurses and care workers of course. We'll be welcoming them in."
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Fake Daily Telegraph headline reading as follows: Allister Heath Make no mistake, food labelling is a direct attack on the British family

lol

Mmmm .. how lovely!

These are so gorgeous (as was your weather by the looks of it!)

Ahahaha what do they think happened to all those horses that used to pull carriages? Did they all go to live on a farm upstate? 😂

Boo! and Sharp's make an excellent low alc version of Doom Bar as well.

I won't be transferring my custom to Black Label, you can be sure.

A stone in the ground with the words ‘WTF 1620’ carved into it.

When you think it’s home time but there’s still 40 minutes to go.

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Increased staffing levels 'show promise' in improving patient care, said no research that anyone wanted to fund

Millionaire's illegal 'mancave' with bowling alley and cinema finally torn down Graham has been to jail before over the mancave.

I love it when they do just dig their heels in though - this one (xinema in the back garden iirc) ran for years and years, but they got him in the end! metro.co.uk/2024/06/04/m...

Am now getting dewy-eyed remembering just loading my bike onto the guards van and securing it with a bungee.....

Watermelon..Just a sweet cucumber basically. 🥒🥒(Though special mention to the random raspberries that have been got by a stink bug, and for some reason, taste of stink bug as a result)