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Interesting! We didn’t have that problem, but maybe that’s the flip side of having one that was very fiddly to apply and seemed to love sticking to everything, including itself! We also used the trick of getting the window thoroughly wet first and squeegee-ing out the water.

If you have large windows, solar window film can really help! It’s very easy to install if you don’t care how neat it looks, and fiddly but possible with patience if you do. It’s the only thing that made a real difference when we lived in an all south-facing windows flat!

That looks like AC has higher power consumption than open windows until the car exceeds 80mph, which is above the national speed limit in the UK, and that’s only for one of the two cars tested.

I will put up with people who want ACs in residential properties banned when they ban AC in cars too.

Open a window! Get a nice breeze going. What’s the problem?

I think it’s literally just that air con is discussed in the summer, when global “warming” sounds bad because it’s already hot, and heating is discussed in winter and it sounds like it’d be nice to be cozy.

I think it’s also to do with what Kate Fox calls “empiricism” in Watching The English, a “preference for the factual, concrete and common-sense. […] our matter-of-factness; our pragmatism; our cynical, no-nonsense groundedness; our gritty realism; our distaste for artifice and pretension”.

Those beautiful blue, blueberry-like things are sensory organs that detect light, like eyes.

The one thing that made a real difference for us was applying solar window film on all the windows that got direct sun. It’s cheap enough that you could remove it in winter again if you want the heat back, especially if you don’t mind the faff-y install.

Isn’t “work breaks every six months for two weeks” just like, a Christmas and a summer vacation?

You’ve heard of immigrants that are both too poor and too rich, both working too much and too little.

Now get ready for the next non-sensical outrage: cities that are both too full and too empty, both too easy to move to and too expensive to live in.

A full airplane simulator rig, I guess? There’s a lot fewer of those around than expensive stereos…

The only exception I can imagine to this is people who are addicted to the gambling aspect of loot boxes that give you (cosmetic or “real”) game items and upgrades.

Someone told me once that their team would have all day audio-only calls during lockdown so anyone could make chit-chat spontaneously at any point during the day. It sounded insane to me!

Ours yell at the feeder for the 15-20 minutes before the food comes. And sometimes do a little “please love me” flop onto the floor for the feeder too. It’s definitely an improvement over yelling at us for 60-90 minutes though!

That looks like a cross-stitch book! It’s much easier to learn than general embroidery — there’s really just one kind of stitch. You can do it!

To be fair, we do this for quite a few of our neighbours! Not paid, but I’d like to think it’s won us a good chunk of goodwill, and it’s really no trouble, especially in black & white.

Likewise getting in and out of bathtubs… It’s crazy to me that there’s no support handles on the wall of every bathtub as standard.

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You’ll love Arco! It’s not quite turn-based (there’s penalties for hesitating), but the perfect mix of keeping on your toes and trusting your gut. It’s not a rogue like but you can restart battles easily so there’s some of the same quick pace. arco.game

I go back and forth on whether it’s heart-warming or horrifying that some people use it for, for example, writing a happy birthday message to their nephew. In some ways it’s more personal than buying a card in a shop, but maybe it’s yet another inhuman layer between people…

I once had the bizarre experience of being stuffed into a little airport bus so that we could do one full loop of the plane before boarding. The Innsbruck staff insisted this was “Easyjet policy”: there should always be a bridge or a bus. Innsbruck was gorgeous enough to almost make up for it.

Grey heron sitting patiently at the water’s edge of a somewhat grungy industrial canal on an overcast British morning, just left of a small bridge.

I love how they’re common enough that you can bump into one anywhere, and rare enough that’s it’s a real treat every time. This guy was trying to get some breakfast in Birmingham Canal.

One of the things he witnessed was the rise of photography!

I regret to inform you that a lot of parents are not relaxed about the number of awards, or even sports points, their children get (or don’t get).

Colleagues of mine tell me the best option to call the Australian offices of ANA as soon as they open, since they will have the best availability as tickets are released daily, and over the phone they have more options than online.

I was once in a quite serious national security breakfast meeting and the hotel played a piano cover of the Howl’s Moving Castle theme over the buffet.

The perfomances and staging were great, but the songs on the whole were very forgettable… I’m almost afraid to watch the ones that didn’t make it through semi-finals.

Obviously ask the dermatologist if you can, but the main reason not to use a heavy moisturiser during the day is that it looks “bad” (shiny / thick / doesn’t layer well with makeup). So if just changing the night one is enough to keep you from getting dry/dehydrated, I’d only change that one.

WE HAVE A NEW WORLD RECORD
SHE DID IT

5 jours, 11 heures, 14 minutes

Bravo Sarah Ruggins.
👏👏👏
#LEJOGLE #JOGLEJOG #worldrecord #sarahruggins

I’ve tried a few versions of “What’s something you wish everyone knew [about your job / hobby / home town]”, and it’s almost always a hit! It usually skips past any pre-conceptions they’re worried you might have about them.