Hroth

Witch Queen Of New Orleans - Redbone

Couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke! 🤣

There's a railway that needs to send the weedkiller train out. AGAIN!

Hmmmmm.... Some difficult choices!

All Right Now - Free

As I understand it, possibly because light blue mainly fought seats that had previously supported brexit, and had disgruntled blues who voted for the light blues as a protest. In a few cases that translated into a seat, in most other cases they fell short. Team Orange fought mainly in places where they were a consistent second and grabbed the protest vote, light blues in that case started from too far behind and failed to make an impression. You have to pick your battlegrounds, Bear, and Light Blue need to learn. The Oranges have been doing it for decades. PR is always brought up by the over-entitled who think they should have a bigger reward. Not so much a case of belief, as understanding where they are coming from, now they have a huge majority. And keeping an eye open for the dodgy "commitments"...

Getting back to the bunfight for a moment. For those who didn't vote Labour yesterday, it may be a good idea to download their manifesto and find out what we may actually be in for... I'll be doing that.

The depressing thing about yesterday is that 40% or so of the eligible "citizens" couldn't be bothered to get off their arses and vote. Its not difficult to do, and even if you've other things to do on the day, alternatives to attending a polling station are available.

Only The Lonely - Roy Orbison

Can't make my mind up if it would be Express/Mail or Grauniad fodder...

Slept well last night, went to bed just after the soothsayers had predicted a Red Party landslide and woke to find that they had predicted more or less correctly. All I can say is that it wasn't my fault!

Hornby always find it difficult to get the right shade of green, but at least they fitted it with their new steam generator....

Well, it DID remind me of the centrifugal clutch on my fathers old Suffolk Colt petrol lawnmower, but....

The Shadow Of Your Smile - Andy Williams

Then there's the (Renault) Dacia Spring, currently due by autumn and possibly the cheapest EV that's a real car on the European market. That'll get hit if its affected by the tariff measures too.

Less walking more skipping, like a stone, before slowly sinking into the depths....

You're a bit confused there... 🤪 Do you mean the Bridgewater, the Worsley branch of the Bridgewater*, the Rochdale, or the Ashton when you say "Manchester Canal"? 🤔 * Which crosses over the MSC at Barton

The edge of the shed on the r/h of the picture looks like genuine Bilteze brick paper!

Don't stand in front of a trotting hippo, their brakes may not be effective...

I've a mind full of useless information! 🤪

I see that the EU is enacting protectionist measures against Chinese EVs on the grounds that they may be excessively subsidised by the Chinese government. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy99z53qypko While this might be so, European car makers have contributed to the problem by concentrating on large SUVs that are expensive and don't suit buyers who want smaller city cars and superminis. European manufacturers are beginning to address this gaping own goal, but their products are one or two years away from general availability. The price-hike may discourage the purchase of new Chinese EVs, but rather than buy new European EVs, there may be a demand for cheaper secondhand EVs that are three to four years old and comfortably within their battery warranty period, until new cars at a cheaper price band are available. This might not be helpful to local manufacturers...

We'll just have to wait until AndyID tells us who got closest... I think Gracie Fields knew! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyAMAWiLBQU

And its still there... I know that one of the occupants has some sort of illness and is probably bed-ridden, but the emergency ambulance has been there for over an hour. I worked for a while in an occupation that required my BSc(Hons) degree. Later I did an MSc*, but that had no appreciable affect on my subsequent career trajectory (No names, no pack drill). * I always mentally translate that as MSC (Manchester Ship Canal), a long muddy ditch with little purpose nowadays...

Is it Einsteinian? 🤔 M=EC2* ? 🤔 * Money = Extra Cake squared....

Not just ER, TNM has started occasionally doing the page-hiccup thing too.