House cooling

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As observed elsewhere, the EES was originally envisioned with the UK in the EU, and would have worked quite well. Brexit threw a spanner in the works.

The claim from the madder brexiteers that the EU is deliberately making things difficult for the UK is simple deflection from their own...

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I'm just glad I've a Schengen and a British passport. Mind you, an five ETAs is still cheaper than a British passport....

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Cue the mad brexiteers explaining why this is a good thing.

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I got effectively that when I had my cataracts treated. One of my eyes is good from 0.5m to 2m - I need reading glasses for close work. The other eye is good for long distance, but anything closer than 1m is blurry.

For driving and most day to day things I don't need glasses. I had a toric...

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That Hideous Strength - C.S.Lewis

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Sunny day.

Off to the gym in a few minutes - then swim and sauna. Later will nip to Germany to do some shopping. We've run out of fruit and veg.

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Nasty bullies that they are, treating the UK just as they do every other third country...

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I just made scrambled eggs on toast for my family. Very yummy.

I am sad today. One of my colleagues, Mark, died two days ago, aged 38....

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I quite like Bruce Springsteen's latest.Good job 2026 rhymes with Minneapolis.

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Sure. Just make sure you play nice this time....

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I think the quote is not universally applicable. Sure, freedom fighters are often labelled by the oppressive government as terrorists, so far that it's true. However, if the strategy is to achieve political aims by instilling fear in the civilian population - that's terrorism.

Rape, for...

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Trump's being playing Risk.

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One of my friends went on a fishing trip with his daughter in Greenland. Cold and miserable. Good fishing though.

My guess is that Trumpy heard reports about ICE and thought they meant Greenland....

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Donald doesn't understand that that Greenland is already defended - in part by the US! He wants the mineral rights.

Denmark provides Greenland's defence. Denmark is a member of NATO. Article 5 means if a member of NATO is attacked, it's considered an attack on all NATO members, and triggers...

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The warm air goes into heating the water for our underfloor heating. The gas boiler assists when temperatures drop much below freezing, and supplies hot water for domestic use.

Apparently it's very efficient.

When it's 40°C, opening some windae's doesn't really help matte...

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I've recently had a warm air pump / gas boiler combination installed in my cellar. I'm wondering if it's feasible to take the cold air and vent it up to my bedroom on the third floor, so during summer we can cool the house with the cold air from the warm air pump?

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Well, that'll make PMQ quieter.

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Switzerland. But he had a distinctive Polish accent....

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Just had a heating engineer round under our service contract to deal with a leak. Turned out to be a plumbing issue, not in his remit. But he fixed it anyway. There are some nice people around.

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Where I live, motorways are allowed for learners and may feature in the test. Alcohol levels for new drivers are essentially 0. If you screw up during the probationary period, you'll have to redo your test.

The worst drivers are those who've learned elsewhere and just switch their licence...