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By the way I am amused to see @Luckyguy yet again going on about fracking at the end of the last thread. I have lost track of the number of times those who actually know something about this have told him it is not practical in the UK. Hell, even the head of Quadrilla who were at the forefront of exploring this has said it is not a viable proposition.

It's just become pure culture wars stuff. Nothing at all to do now with actual energy extraction or security. It is now apparently merely a test of whether you believe in Britain or not.

Sadly, this is completely true.

It's like the WW1 "stabbed in the back" myth, that Germany would have won without the shadowy cabal having sabotaged them.

Only in this case, it's a shadowy cabal that caused Cuadrilla and iGas to fail to drill a single well that encountered commercial quantities of natural gas.

And the really bizarre thing is that there actually is a good story of the UK government having fucked up its hydrocarbons strategy: it's just in the North Sea, rather than the Bowland Shale.

Bad news for the Dubai doomsayers,

Saturday night, rooftop bar, totally packed and we woun’t have got a table if we weren’t guests in house.

Time Out best rooftop bar last year.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/cBLZeyuaoYRBYLGr9?g_st=ic

So much NOOM, the love of having a party at a time of war.

Whilst you have gone up in my estimation for staying in the sandpit and not running back home at taxpayer expense and complaining (so well done you), I can't help thinking that "at a time of war" usually involves more blood and rubble and less cocktails...

😎

Did you mean *fewer* cocktails?

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I did. I will now commit pedantic hari-kiri. But it will require the correct sword...

Sward. A romantic setting is required. Just ask Lupe Vélez.

Bad news for the Dubai doomsayers,

Saturday night, rooftop bar, totally packed and we woun’t have got a table if we weren’t guests in house.

Time Out best rooftop bar last year.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/cBLZeyuaoYRBYLGr9?g_st=ic

So much NOOM, the love of having a party at a time of war.

Whilst you have gone up in my estimation for staying in the sandpit and not running back home at taxpayer expense and complaining (so well done you), I can't help thinking that "at a time of war" usually involves more blood and rubble and less cocktails...

😎

Did you mean *fewer* cocktails?

🍸

I did. I will now commit pedantic hari-kiri. But it will require the correct sword...

ko-wakizashi ?

I see everyone needs cheering up. Especially the Irish. So look here’s the latest addition to my increasingly deranged flat

It’s a sphere of pure Labradorite. I’ve put it on a Georgian jelly glass (a strangely perfect display method) on a bed of fossils, foreign coins and random metal detector finds (Roman buckles to 30s car badges)

That aethereal and noomy blue glow when the sun hits the sphere is called “Labradorescence”


“Inside labradorite are microscopic layers of different feldspar crystals stacked like an impossibly thin mille-feuille. When light enters the stone it bounces between those layers and interferes with itself. Certain wavelengths reinforce each other and leap back out as colour. Others cancel out and disappear.

Result: a dark stone that suddenly ignites with colour when the angle is right.”

All that wealth, and you still can't sand and paint a window sill. 😄

Labradorite - the 60s and 70s favourite bland storefront cladding.

I see everyone needs cheering up. Especially the Irish. So look here’s the latest addition to my increasingly deranged flat

It’s a sphere of pure Labradorite. I’ve put it on a Georgian jelly glass (a strangely perfect display method) on a bed of fossils, foreign coins and random metal detector finds (Roman buckles to 30s car badges)

That aethereal and noomy blue glow when the sun hits the sphere is called “Labradorescence”


“Inside labradorite are microscopic layers of different feldspar crystals stacked like an impossibly thin mille-feuille. When light enters the stone it bounces between those layers and interferes with itself. Certain wavelengths reinforce each other and leap back out as colour. Others cancel out and disappear.

Result: a dark stone that suddenly ignites with colour when the angle is right.”

All that wealth, and you still can't sand and paint a window sill. 😄

There is a reason they look relatively rustic

When I got the guy in to do my windowblinds and painting as part of my overall refurb (now 11 months in, and weeks from finishing, finally) he noted that, remarkably, I have the window frames and panels and glass from when the house was first built in the 1830s. The panes are original, the sash windows are original, it's all here

So, nah, I'm not gonna sand everything down so it looks like a Barratt Home in Bedfordshire

Definitely noom as I can see the ghostly face of a cat in that globe to the right hand side slightly towards the bottom.

You can?? I don't have a cat

It is hypnotic in its mix of reflections and luminescence

eg I cannot recognise anything in the reflections in this pic, except for the yellow bottle of Miracle-Gro plant food, which I bought for my succulents, it's down there bottom right

What's genius about this stone is that it changes all the time., through the day, as the light hits at different angles. Suddenly it will glow bright orangey-green,. then back to electric blue, and so on. All for £32. I love eBay

You don’t *think* you have a cat.

Perhaps a cat has you - https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/More_Ghost_Stories_of_an_Antiquary/The_Stalls_of_Barchester_Cathedral

By the way I am amused to see @Luckyguy yet again going on about fracking at the end of the last thread. I have lost track of the number of times those who actually know something about this have told him it is not practical in the UK. Hell, even the head of Quadrilla who were at the forefront of exploring this has said it is not a viable proposition.

It's just become pure culture wars stuff. Nothing at all to do now with actual energy extraction or security. It is now apparently merely a test of whether you believe in Britain or not.

I often wonder whether Lucky Guy is one of the few contributers brave enough to use his own image in his avatar.

If so, he does give the appearance of being in the sales department of whatever outfit he works for rather than something more operational. And it also feels right for his contribution on here - say something that sounds good to his aim and see if it lands, somewhere in the background of his avatar is his terror eyed pre-sales consultant bag carrier going "what magic in the name of hell am I going to use to deliver that mound of vapour he has just promised?"

Meanwhile, PB is stuffed full of folk who are far more likely to identify with said bag carrier.