The buntin is up

https://www-independent-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/opinion/north-sea-oil-gas-climate-crisis-b2088725.html?amp

There's probably a reason why they aren't so well-known.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/11-lesser-known-fairy-tales?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/31-holiday-lets-one-street-7125533?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

Am I alone in having misgivings about AlanF being made Moderator of the Current Affairs and Politics Group ?

When I was offered a new boiler under the Mayor of London's Warmer Homes programme, I'd no idea that the grant would cover so much.
The existing boiler was installed over 17 years ago and began deteriorating last Christmas, but they're also replacing the hot water cylinder and immersion heater (which were in this house before I came here, so they must be over 30 years old), and redesigning the entire, apparently inefficient system of pipework connections to the boiler that was installed in 1993.
I didn't expect the gas meter to be disconnected for this job but perhaps the 30-year-old piping was undersized, by modern standards, and needs upgrading. A lot of long new copper pipes, mostly bigger than one sees on radiators etc, were included in the plumbing supplies. So much for the idea that I might do a lot of cooking (using a gas hob) today, while the engineer got going on this huge job! At least I should be able to microwave something later, with any luck.
Meantime, the mains fuse has been flipping off as unpredictably as the internet connection - even though I had all the wiring etc thoroughly overhauled shortly before the pandemic. Yet more complications....

https://www.smartaerials.co.uk/blog/should-i-leave-tv-on-standby-at-night-or-switch-off

Got my contents renewal and it has gone down by £9 from last year

Have a look at this:
https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/channel-4-we-are-96-open-letter
“Of the 56,293 respondents, when you asked people about privatisation, what percentage of those 56,000 supported privatisation?”

“I think the figure was about 96%.”

That’s what Culture Secretary, Nadine Dorries, told MPs in a committee meeting today. She’s wrong. 96% opposed privatisation.

This is a Culture Secretary in denial. This is a Culture Secretary who wants to push ahead with plans to privatise our Channel 4 despite public opposition. This is a Culture Secretary ignoring us - the British public.

We told her in a petition. We told her in a consultation. Hundreds of thousands of us have told her we disagree time and time again. But she’s not listening.

So let’s do something she can’t ignore. Let’s flood her inbox tonight as the story is breaking.


Use the link below to join me and add your name today:
https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/channel-4-we-are-96-open-letter

The Championship Play-off final at Wembley, Huddersfield Town v Nottingham Forest to see who gets the final promotion place into the Promised Land. I mean the Premier League. Worth £170m to the winners.
Get your predictions in by 3.30pm for a 4.30pm kick off, provided there are no French police outside.

A great man

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/breaking-lester-piggott-jockey-dead-27093804

Looks very promising indeed.

https://tinyurl.com/y57x52jz

I've no idea if the following is true. I found it on the web. If it is true then he's a shining example to all the self obsessed so called stars

This is Keanu Reeves. He was abandoned by his father at just 3-years-old and grew up with 3 different stepfathers. His dream of becoming a hockey player was shattered by a serious accident. His daughter died at birth. His wife died in a car accident and his best friend, River Phoenix, died of an overdose.

No bodyguards, no luxury houses. Keanu lives in an ordinary apartment and likes wandering around town and is often seen riding a subway in NYC. When he was filming the movie "The Lake House," he overheard the conversation of two costume assistants, one crying as he would lose his house if he did not pay $20,000 - On the same day, Keanu deposited the necessary amount in his bank account.

In his career, he has donated large sums to hospitals including $75 million of his earnings from “The Matrix” to charities.In 2010, on his birthday, Keanu walked into a bakery & bought a brioche with a single candle, ate it in front of the bakery, and offered coffee to people who stopped to talk to him. In 1997 some paparazzi found him walking one morning in the company of a homeless man in Los Angeles, listening to him and sharing his life for a few hours.

In life, sometimes the ones most broken from inside are the ones most willing to help others.

This man could buy everything, but instead he wakes up and chooses one thing that cannot be bought, to be a caring person

It's the Champions League Final at the Parc de Princes in Paris.
Liverpool v Real Madrid.
Match starts at 8pm so get your predictions in by 7pm. I will check just before kick off for any late entries.
Good luck

It appears that Close Discussion is not in the dropdown list so I had to delete post contents instead on my High Viz thread.

Are we eventually to follow? Anyone going to Paris on holiday?

https://www.positive.news/environment/agriculture/farms-of-the-future-the-paris-rooftops-at-the-heart-of-an-urban-revolution/

https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/fraud-victims-left-hanging-on-the-telephone-which-finds-au81K0S3iFvc?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=scam_alert&utm_content=Scam+alert+260522+FB+A

There are a few email tracking vendors on the web.
I do not use tracking all the time, just occasionally for emails which I want to know that the recipient has read.

My preferred tracking agent is GETNOTIFY, a simple sign-up program that is not installed, but once you are on their register is activated by adding ".getnotify.com" to the recipients email address. This addition does not show on the recipients email.
When the email is opened you get an email alert from GETNOTIFY.

https://www.getnotify.com/

The Queen is only allowing Working Royals to appear on the balcony of the Palace for the jubilee.
Netflix must be kicking themselves as they follow Harry and Meghan

https://people.com/royals/meghan-markle-prince-harry-attend-platinum-jubilee-service-thanksgiving-royal-family/?amp=true

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10857987/Goodfellas-star-Ray-Liotta-dies-sleep-Dominican-Republic-aged-67.html

Just heard that these are due to be removed. I look and listen to them both most days. How do I start a petition (joking) - it's just not right yet I am paying a licence fee for the likes of Gary Lineker, Zoe Ball and many other to be overpaid. Very annoyed.

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I'm in favour of rewilding (in the right way and in the right places) and this exhibit has a valid message, but I'm not sure I would call it a garden.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10851467/Ramshackle-plot-featuring-shed-pile-sticks-wins-prize-Chelsea-Flower-Show.html

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just thought I find out how much 10 units cost, @ £0.07kwh
1= £2.18 : 10 = £21.80

But this is so funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI6qvQtrTU8

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/is-russian-president-vladimir-putin-seriously-ill/ar-AAVc25r?ocid=winp1taskbar%3De05a80a335924d23ea0a876557d27a47

wonderful cloud formations today. Different every time I look out the window. Dark on white,white on dark and blue handkerchiefs in the gaps.Now we have hail.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/horrified-father-finds-his-son-has-smashed-£3400-teletubby-sculpture-and-he-has-to-pay-for-it/ar-AAXF5E0?ocid=winp1taskbar%3De05a80a335924d23ea0a876557d27a47

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61566410 Whether Johnson was present or not, he allowed this.

This Russian dickhead is shouting his mouth off that Russia could destroy the entire UK in 2 minutes flat using their Sarmat missile. The R-sole appears to forget that a few minutes later Russia would be wiped out and no longer exist.

https://tinyurl.com/2p894sjk

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/putin-creating-some-disquiet-as-russia-forced-to-launch-search-for-new-soldiers-to-fight/ar-AAXCtsQ?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=e05a80a335924d23ea0a876557d27a47

June 11, 7pm, is Wimbledon Choral's concert raising money for the children of Ukraine. It's at Trinity Church, Sloane Street. Please come!

Now they are moaning about the Platinum Jubilee trifle because it has controversial ingredients such as eggs, butter and cream. Why can't they just make their own non-dairy version, instead of telling everyone else what they can't eat.
https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/22/vegans-slam-queens-cruel-and-unhealthy-platinum-jubilee-trifle-16687085/?fbclid=IwAR3beSY8K_e_cCJjZNJYZuBhlz7qbcldcLdtC4pYsDR-TGAqFdWw28KFPks

Not content with holding Restart Parties and opening Repair Factories to help folk learn to mend their own gadgets, the Restart Project has been collating a Repair Directory of small repair businesses - somewhere to take the gadgets which need more than enthusiastic amateur work to put right.
Work on this began some years ago, focusing on north and east London, but has now expanded to cover the west side of the capital, thanks to the sensible collective waste authority over that way. So it should be useful to ever more people as a result, as well as giving more folk an incentive to recommend more of their local small businesses for inclusion in the directory.
https://therestartproject.org/news/west-london-expansion/

This was one woman's answer on tv this morning when asked what essentials she was having to cut back or forego because of the cost of living crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/22/tweet-on-tory-local-election-candidates-account-says-teenage-girls-smell-buttery-and-creamy How can someone be so out of touch they think this is acceptable?

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/creepy-exploding-caterpillar-hull-gate-7114161

https://tinyurl.com/4nbzs5dt

https://mol.im/a/10841843

The milkman delivered the bottles
The coal man kept us warm
Queuing to make a phone call
Was once considered the norm
We all had hand me down clothes
We also had our Sunday best
When Elvis shook his hips
Not everyone was impressed
Passed love letters in the classroom
Played marbles on a drain
If mum didn't have our pocket money
We wouldn't dare complain
We were told smoking was good for us
So we thought we'd give it a try
We coughed and choked and spluttered
And we never questioned why
We collected matchboxes and stamps
Played penny up the wall
Could play outside for hours
If someone had a ball
Wages still came in a packet
Seemingly bursting at the seams
A holiday in foreign lands
Was simply the stuff of dreams
Dad would be down the pub
On the day he got his wages
We'd never heard of google
We simply had the yellow pages
We took back the empty bottles
For pieces of silver and gold
We went to market and jumble sales
For the bargains being sold
We took pride in where we lived
Those streets on which we grew
Some may say its better now
I'm not so sure that's true
We kids had a sip of babycham
Or sneaked a drop of dad's beer
Looking back it seems so innocent
Those glorious days of yesteryear

©Danny Fenn the boleyn poet©

We went to Southend Airport yesterday to see the Vulcan bomber do a high-speed run. Click link below to see various videos on Facebook, and from me in the comments:
https://bit.ly/3lvZcTB

I was an adopted child and have just found out who my Father is (passed away now} and I now have a photograph of him. Is any of you able to identify his hat badge, leather wrist badge and chest medal to reveal the Regiment he was in?
I would be so grateful for any help, thank you.

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