Will the 'culture warriors' start woezering about the National Trust (you know, that evil 'woke' institution the National Trust) doing this? Bat on a non-slip roof: National Trust adapts manor for nocturnal residents: Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk gives tiles a special coating to stop bats slipping off as part of £6m roofing project: The trust on ( Read more... )

O dear, I seem to have the okkards today, or the world has, lots of dropping stuff and tripping and minor computer hassles. Possibly due to not sleeping very well last night, due to twingey knee, which I suspect not so much hip-related as to rather dim action of mine on the legcurl machine at the gym yesterday.

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Reading this this morning in ( Read more... )

The irruptions of the forces of travel chaos erupted early, with the death of the iron on Sunday evening, partway through my ironing and before partner had even begun. We eventually disinterred an old travel iron, and after changing the plug, this served, if not very adequately - may be up to smoothing out the creases from packing, but that's ( Read more... )

I now know what a Reek of Wrongness smells like*: there is one of these infesting the back goods-lift shaft in our building.

*Indescribable. You have to be there.