So now the strait is open all of the fossil fuel subsidies, fossil tax cuts and weakening of environmental regulations wil be set back to normal, right?

North face solar just doing its thing! Cant wait till it’s mid summer and we properly see it producing early in the morning.

Annual travel pass for all buses, trams, metros, etc in Prague for £277. 365 and 24/7 for £277. In Greater Manchester, 28 days of buses and trams (not including local rail, and no underground) is £136. Two months of travel or one year. The UK really is a scam.

So much for Britain not participating in this illegal war 🙄

Colour me surprised that the far right funds people like Matt Goodwin. This is what we are up against?!

Easter Beef cooked to perfection!

ASHP user here. House is 21C all year round. It’s a comfortable temperature and doesnt cost a fortune to keep it that way. I just wish the FUD from the Daily Mail and O&G companies hadn’t taken hold and more people could enjoy this marvellous technology.

Nigel Farage’s visit to Ipswich Town was a private tour. Then it wasn’t. Then it was a lunch. Next it’s football regulation. Here's how the explanations keep shifting, raising more questions than answers ⤵️

The Dutch invest €595 million every year enabling everyday cycling, resulting in €19 *billion* saved in public healthcare costs. ..So for every €1 they spend on cycling, the Dutch government save their taxpayers over €30. - Smart.

Parkrun done! Another PB 🥳🥳🥳 #Parkrun

Wes Streeting is a snake The lack of affirmation is telling that this is him gearing up for a leadership bid &hoping some people will return to Labour to support him I’m sorry,but withholding the very healthcare trans people deserve & endorsing the discredited Cass report says it all for who he is

British politicians can't be trusted with "emergency" fuel duty cuts: they're never brave enough to reverse them when fuel prices drop back to normal levels. They're also not brave enough to change how fuel duty works to make it stabilise prices. So that makes short term cuts unaffordable. Sorry.

If we racked our brains for years, we’d probably never come up with a better ad to show the ridiculous space that cars take up in cities. And this classic Saturn commercial did it by accident. The only flaw is that most of the invisible vehicles would more likely have just one person. #UrbanTruth

Having the gay audacity to wonder whether I can landscape our entire garden rather than pay somebody to do it....

£32.90 was the total cost in March for: - 7 full charges in the EV (1400 miles in the car) - The house at a static 21C - 4 cubic meters of hot water for showers, washing up etc - Both of us WFH all month - Lots of oven, kettle, laundry etc. 🤯 Electrification and time of use tariffs are amazing!

"Dear people of the UK, when you go to vote on May 7th, just before you write the X in the box, count to 10 and think about what's happening in America. A quick recap below:" via The Daily Scar at Facebook

Good news below but to reiterate that the Abingdon Rd incident was appalling. We have learned they provoke people for clicks and entertainment & the live streaming is curated. It’s like 21st century beer baiting where normal people are the bears news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/unauthorised...

75 new social housing apartments in Glebe, Sydney A cross laminated timber (CLT) structure, robust brick cladding, stunning recessed brick balconies, fully-electric and 6 star green star rating. Would *love* to see more housing like this! By JPW Architects

www.clientearth.org/latest/press... Wow! Huge if this is proved

Ugh. Fly tipping in the ward drives me insane. This time, it’s a load of garden tree cuttings. Coincidentally a house near us had all their trees cut down earlier this week. They didn’t shred the cuttings, they piled them onto a wagon. My bet is they didn’t have space for it all so chucked it

Couldn’t agree more. That money would be returned to the treasury through people having improved health, having more money to spend locally and it would help forge better connections across communities by getting people out and about. But no. No money of this magnitude for cycling & active travel

Decided to brave watching an episode of The Apprentice….the egg & chicken one. Christ. I’ve nearly thrown the remote at the TV. Who rightly decides that canapés need to be chicken pie or a badly made carbonara?! If these are Britain’s next best business people. Then no wonder the economy is shite

Currently heating the house and charging the battery on nothing but sunbeams! Temp dipped to freezing last night. Electrification really is magical. #SolarPV #ASHP

A really interesting observation. Switch your phone to black and white mode and see how long you scroll through social media, or how long it takes you to reach for your phone after you’ve put it down. It’s fascinating what colour does to our dopamine centre

A view of the night sky from Mars. (Yes, really)

YouGov's first MRP of the 2026 Senedd election shows Plaid Cymru on course to be the largest party PC: 43 (+19 from 2021*) Ref: 30 (+30) Lab: 12 (-32) Grn: 10 (+10) Con: 1 (-25) LD: 0 (-2) *notional results had the last election been conducted on the new system based on data from Dr Jac Larner

Another tree in our neighbourhood cut down. 😭😭😭 The people doing it don’t look like arborists. So I’m kind ofcurious what the reasoning behind it is. It looks healthy. I’ll just have to double down and plant more of my own to compensate for this loss

independent.co.uk/news/health/... Yet another reason we should be doing absolutely everything in our power to get people off gas and electrify everything.

Nigel Farage took £585,000 from GB News. His MPs declared another £770,000. Four billionaires have spent £170M building the media machine putting Reform in your living room every night. Today the Guardian exposed them and what they expect in return. This is a political project funded from the top.

I told you all you told me I was lying. Nigel Farage and Reform are going to come for Gay marriage and women’s abortion rights.

It's only force majeure if it comes from the Majeure region of France. Otherwise it's just a sparkling shitshow.

Vegan fry up this morning for breakfast. 🤤🤤🤤

So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Crumble had a day of zoomies today! First parkrun this morning, then a lovely walk along the river in Corbridge.

Parkrun done. Not the quickest time but I wasn’t expecting anything major today, given I was out on the town until 2am this morning 😅 But we made it round in a respectable 23:40. PB still stands at 23:21. 🏃🏃‍♂️ #Parkrun

Holy smoke! Our OE rates going forward! Means we’ll be getting something ludicrous like 0.87p/mile approximately. So a full charge in the MG4 will be £2.23 and get us 280 miles approximately. 😳🤯

Kim McGuinness take note! Night buses are desperately needed in Newcastle. I’m fed up of paying £13 for a taxi at 2300 because the last bus has already left.

Mine would be hips don’t lie by shakira 😅 When I was travelling round Venezuela I took a 48 hour bus journey and this was the only song that the driver played. 48 hours of that bloody horn introduction 😭😭😭 still have PTSD from it

Just recieved this text from Dad. For context he will be have been talking about this in his capacity as a cyclist. What he also failed to say is: he is a guy who drives his SUV 500m to the shops rather than walking and complains about net zero and fails to realise wetter winters = more potholes

Morning sourdough bake done! This loaf has the best ear I think I’ve ever had. I think I may invest in an oblong Dutch oven. I used a circular one on this but can only fit one in the oven at a time. Would be good to be able to cook two loaves at the same time side by side. #sourdough

“1 mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, 1 mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” The #’s may vary, but the truth is the same.

Not quite a perfect solar hump for us today! But we did break our generation record since installing the system in January ☀️📈🥳 24.44kWh generated! The array breakdown also is interesting.

Significant road safety win in Norway! 30 km/h is now the default for built up areas 🚴‍♂️🚶‍♂️ Norway's public roads administration have just turned the way speed limits are set in built up areas on it's head. From now on, traffic engineers now have to meet clear criteria to use any higher speed limit.

Let’s use this opportunity to build flats instead of car parks!

This! Since visiting the Netherlands, I realise cities can be lovely places to live. Cars and bikes coexist with roads designed in ways to protect other users. City centres are hustling with many independent shops. A lot of this comes from higher salaries & higher taxes. Not the race to the bottom

Question. Why is it being reported that Starmer has suddenly grown a spine and refuses to join Trump into this war…..yet we hear very little of the fact we are allowing the US airforce to use RAF Fairford to refuel and rearm bombers? Surely that counts as supporting Trump right?

Morning 5km run done! A lovely loop of Derwent Walk country park. Spring definitely feels like it’s on the way. With leaf buds starting to break, spring blossoms out and loving the lighter mornings. #TryingToGetFit

An amazing member of ours put together this graphic that really encapsulates perfectly the situation on Bank Street. There is only so much space available, and we must use it as efficiently as possible. Parking isn't that. Please sign up to delegate on March 30th in favour of bus lanes!

Spinach and coconut stewed lentils with roasted vegetables. This #vegan dish was absolutely delicious! 11/10 Would highly recommend! thefirstmess.com/2026/03/04/c...