Time to say goodbye this week to our trusty 16 year old One heat exchanger failure & 2 cases of gas supply over pressure (caused by main gas regulator failure - not trusty's fault) in 16 yrs. Never really been able to maintain good water pressure for more than couple of months. #HeatPumpInstall

Telegraph story bemoaning the UK music biz which does not once mention: A] Brexit and how it wrecked touring & thus the ability of British acts to build audiences in the EU B] Tory govts treating the biz as a nest of lefties and sniggering when Brexit damaged it www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Happy Birthday to Paul John Weller, singer, songwriter, and guitarist for The Jam, The Style Council, as well as many other musicians and bands, born on this day in 1958 in Woking, Surrey, England. 📸 Robin Little #punkrock #thejam #paulweller #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Glasgow peeps: We’ll be at the Ideal Home thing at the SECC today, and @jeniiannettahardie.bsky.social is giving a couple of cook-dems. Come and say hi if you are around. We have books to sign and sell!

On the day some Kemnay bar steward had a bonfire.....

Vote Reform, Get Trump #Makerfield

Her only policy is “Drill Baby Drill” Vote Reform, Get Trump #AberdeenSouth

NEW Stewart Lee column Streeting? Burnham? Who cares? Just get after Farage while he’s vulnerable This week’s column by Stewart Lee www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

JUST DROPPED: Europe thought it won the energy war. Build LNG terminals, swap Russian pipelines for LNG, job done. Then Hormuz closed & prices doubled. We didn't end our dependency. We just changed who we are dependent on. But bright spots on horizon. open.substack.com/pub/janrosen...

Movies of Scotland: The Angels' Share (2012). Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. His discerning taste for fine whisky may offer him and his friends a way to a better life. Directed by Ken Loach.

Probably safer to keep your money under the mattress. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy birthday C86! It was 40 years ago TODAY that the first announcement of the NME's latest mail-order cassette was made. Then, 36 years later...

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@mirandakitten.bsky.social Morning

In space no one can hear you scream. But here on earth........aaaaarreeeeeeggggghhhhh

Time for local strawberries

Wake up with Clare walking up Bennachie, and much talk of Kemnay and the surroundings www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

For the unpatriotic, those are: Paddington, Winnie the Pooh, Rupert and Sooty. WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM.

In the Labour purges of ‘26, 1.2 million have died, millions more sent to camps, but thankfully, beloved Daily Mail journalist, Giles Udy, has survived to tell the tale. #media

@bad-girls-bad-boy.bsky.social Got this out for the younger customers?

Box 1 has arrived. #HeatPumpInstall.

About bloody time! 🦡 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So what happens when Reform take over your local council? This. #KentCountyCouncil

Actually true 😢 EastEnders and Blake's 7 star Michael Keating dies, aged 79 share.google/vQLy5lTESzTW...

In a rut.... As ever, superb baselines, and so much to say....

“Dare you to see if your elbow fits between them railings,” she said to him. And then ran off, laughing.

They'll need more three offices to protect the fans in the US.

Pay a fortune to attend matches, but instead end up as a foreigner in ICE detention without trial. Or stay at home for nothing and watch them on TV. That's a pretty simple choice. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

"No, the change is to walk in surgeries....."

My extracurricular activities when taking my O-levels were, er, sitting on a park bench, shouting at passing drivers, and discussing loud shouty music. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Unai Emery is a five-time Europa League champion. By a fun quirk, all the teams he's won the tournament with have had 'Villa' in their name: Aston Villa (1), Sevilla (3) and Villarreal (1).🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

Staring at the Rude Boys, tonight, Drummonds, Aberdeen. @rutsdc.bsky.social

As a teacher of English, I can definitively state that yes, this is exactly what happened. Particularly, the curse words. ◡̈

Really significant and welcome move from the government to get major clean energy projects built quicker. www.businessgreen.com/news/4529991...

Go swim, and see the lovely fresh paint work.

Worth adding there is a fair chance we may see the first national turn up via DFS this bank holiday weekend if demand is at record low and the solar delivers to forecast.

@leftpeggers.bsky.social You ok today? No panics when you hear cars coming up from behind?

Just been to the Southampton Club Shop

National Audit Office 'Value for money' report on Sizewell C stating the bleeding obvious "but the rewards for investors still appear high, given their limited exposure to project risk. The extent to which investors will be incentivised to control project costs in the way DESNZ assumes is unclear."

Pathetic. Giving money to Russia and undermining Ukraine just so holidaymakers can get their sunburn in Ibiza cheaper and without risk of disruption.

I’m at the point of fear with this new one. Will folk like it? Will folk get it? Does it matter if they do or don’t? We’ll soon see!

The next election will be between a party that fundamentally rejects climate science, a party that says it accepts climate science but has no plan to do anything about it, and several parties that accept climate science and want to do something about it.

A small sample of Tice's approach to facts, evidence, reason, etc...

A poem for World Bee Day.

Global EV Outlook 2026 is out 📢 It shows global electric car sales are on track to rise to 23 million in 2026, after hitting record heights in nearly 100 countries last year. This means that close to 30% of cars sold this year are set to be electric → iea.li/4fflJ4v

Good news, countering the totally depressing announcement that we (the UK) now have to buy fossil fuel from putin just to keep things moving. The sooner we reduce our torrent of toxic fuel imports to a trickle the better.

To celebrate all that is red and white, had a red squirrel cross my run path this morning. #Goonertastic

Wrong! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Still some jeopardy on Sunday.