Going into shorter days, happy that we’re still powered by sunshine 🌞 Our home remained net zero in September ⚡ #CleanEnergy #NetZero #ClimateAction

Businesses face multi-million GDPR fines for being hacked. I hope a lesson MPs take from underwriting JLR’s £1.5 billion loan is that, like any other crime, the burden of defeating hackers must by shared by effective law enforcement. I vote investigate the shit out of every hack then send in the SAS

Blaming autism on mom taking pain pills sounds like man science.

To those who argue that UK recognition of the Palestinian state won’t make a difference I ask, fine, why does it bother you then?

We must be ready for early election, Nigel Farage tells Reform UK NIgel Farage announces he is setting up a department to prepare for government at the Reform conference.

I’m sure that when Nigel Farage buys big roll, the BBC will duly report it. There is nothing newsworthy about this: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I feel absolutely gutted that Angela Rayner was hounded out.

New acquaintances start on my scorecard at a 7. Some then gain rank as I get to know them, but most go down. It make me wonder whether 7 is a naive starting score. (Intolerance ironically triggers a permanent deduction. It is not possible to be an intolerant 10)

The Deadly Italian Alps: Almost 90 Fatalities So Far This Summer » Explorersweb The Italian media are calling it a hecatombe -- massacre. An average of three deaths every day have taken place in the Italian Alps so far this summer.

I had persuaded myself that I would conquer vertigo to go hiking in the Italian Dolomites… and then I read this. Other than being British, I’m slap bang in the danger demographic. explorersweb.com/the-deadly-i...

The Lost Marbles Department, an unexpected find on today’s walk, around Lustleigh Cleave.

Britain can’t lawfully recognise Palestine as a state because of the Montevideo Convention? Since when was the UK bound by an agreement made between the US and 16 Central and South American states?

If Trump can issue decrees with no checks, balance or process, how does his presidency differ from a dictatorship?

Anyone looking for a business idea: become a roofer. Turning up when you say would put you in the top 15%.

American democracy is broken. It should not be possible for the USA to switch sides, disown its contracts, and destroy 80 years of trust on the whim of one orange man.

Looking for a silver lining to Trump’s cuntery, perhaps Starmer will be forced/allowed to re-align with the EU.

As a Tesla driver (until the lease expires), I wholeheartedly support this.

In a strong finish, our Feb 2025 solar power could overtake 2022. The sun’s shining and only 10kWh separates the two. It’s hard to contain the excitement:

History is difficult.

Fox News reports R Sen. Josh Hawley, "We held elections during World War II. Britain held elections during World War II. If they're (Ukraine) a democracy, they should hold elections. I don't think that's difficult"

No, Britain didn’t. babel.ua/en/amp/texts...

Labour will leave no stone unturned in its determination to deliver economic growth for the UK… except the big one labelled EU customs union. When Parliament, in 2019, was asked, the majority for leaving the customs union was 0.3%. Could that have changed, now the impact is real? #Brexit #clueless

Quite honestly, what else are you going to do in Icelandic midwinter except read, keep warm and watch aurora? Okay, I might also be tempted to bathe in hot springs.

It’s official, I’m on my way to becoming e-European 🇪🇺❤️🇪🇺

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 4/20
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 3/20
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Archaeologist Discovers Two Neolithic Stone Circles in England, Supporting a 'Sacred Arc' Theory The idea suggests prehistoric people built a ring of stone circles in modern-day Dartmoor National Park around the same time that Stonehenge was created—and the new finds have just added another piece...

Ha! I contributed to this archaeological discovery by strimming the shit out of the bracken that was covering the Irishman’s Wall site. You see how they’re digging in manicured lawn? That was me and Steve! www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 2/20
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My pampered Po doesn’t know how lucky he is for this to be an everyday walk. I do.

Front cover of the book A Fine Balance by Robinson Mistry. It shows a young child pointing to or reaching for the sky, while balanced on a pole.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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Tree of the day from a dusk walk beside the East Oakment river.

Photo of densely packed layers of dark fungi, each with a thin white border, growing from a large fallen tree trunk.

It probably has a proper name but ,for now, funky fungi from today’s dog walk at Shilstone, #Dartmoor

Normally when I walk this route up Cosdon Hill I’m struck by how little it has changed over centuries. Then Storm Bert came along, and a bridleway became a river, and then this. So much erosion in one day. #Dartmoor