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  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 23,922
    Cyclefree said:

    From my draft manuscript

    "There are some functions and duties which only the state can do fairly. Abandoning responsibility for these leads to abuse of power and harm to the vulnerable.........

    That exercise and the proper understanding of risks and the state’s obligations to its citizens - to protect them from the exercise of arbitrary unjustified power, to protect them from harm - is the essence of government. It is not one which can be sloughed off on others: either to save money or in the belief that unaccountable private bodies with other interests can or will do the job for them.

    Instead, this retreat has led to a state and many of its institutions which have - far too often - failed in many of the state’s basic functions and responsibilities, which have failed to get the basics right, basics which include criminal justice, policing, health, building safety, effective regulation of the financial sector and care for our children.

    It has led to a state which - far too often - has forgotten what public service is meant to be, which has treated those it is meant to serve with indifference, contempt and dismissiveness. It has led to a state which has created - or allowed to develop - a climate in which far too many companies and individuals have put their own personal financial, commercial or other interests first, have disregarded the rules and laws and standards of professionalism, integrity, honour and decency, even at the expense of others’ lives.

    It has led to a state which too often has itself used every possible avenue to avoid accepting any sort of responsibility or accountability for its actions and has made it acceptable for others (both companies and individuals) to do the same. It has led to a degradation of professional and personal conduct, a tolerance of lies and deception and serious damage to the trust we should have in our public institutions. It has led to a state which fails - until far too late - to admit error, let alone right its mistakes and compensate those it has harmed through its actions.
    "

    I am, I know, a broken record on this. But repairing this trust is - for me - the most important task of government. That is why Starmer's inept response over freebies, his broken promises to farmers, even the way they announced the correct decision on WASPI women is damaging. It erodes rather than rebuilds trust. He has time to recover. The Tories don't even seem to see the problem. Reform just moan. The Greens are batshit insane and the Lib Dems are the Waitrose equivalent of Reform - a politer version of "Isn't everything awful".

    Anyway need to do some work.
    Go to the bookshop and order "Late Soviet Britain" by Laura Innes. She details how the Thatcher/Blair reforms, whilst promising to create a hands-off version of Government, just ended up creating a regime of nomenklatura fixers and overseers that are a law unto themselves, creating a command-and-control structure very similar to, say, the Brezhnev era.

    Then when you are done (it is a very dense book), order "The Rise and Fall of the British Nation" in which David Edgerton details how things used to be done and its eventual evolution to how things are done now.

    It is often instructive to see how things developed to understand how we got here, and both books detail 20th century history to that end.
  • Two unconnected irrational numbers and an imaginary number come together to make minus one

    And the world then makes sense

    Transcendental no less...
  • MattW said:

    Just done family phone calls, briefly.

    Happy New Year, everyone.

    You can go to sleep now and wake up with a four-hour lead over everyone else.
  • You can go to sleep now and wake up with a four-hour lead over everyone else.
    Talking of going to sleep, I'm just about to. My New Year gift to any spotters in the vicinity is:

    https://crewe.nub.news/news/local-news/scenes-of-crewe-50-years-ago-what-did-it-look-like-247404

    Seven minutes of Super-8 footage of Crewe station in 1974.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,823

    So do you think the current laws are wrong and someone who is born in a British hospital should automatically be British, as they were before the 1981 British Nationality Act?
    I think that irrespective of that question, it’s plain stupid to call them an immigrant.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,823

    You can go to sleep now and wake up with a four-hour lead over everyone else.
    Happy New Year everyone.
    I’m off to bed early.
  • rkrkrkrkrkrk Posts: 8,612
    theProle said:

    Don't want to bust your bubble, but SOHCATOA isn't Pythagoras, and is missing a character.

    Pythagoras is that for any right angled triangle, a² + b² = c² where a and b are the lengths of the short sides and c the long side (hypotenuse)

    SOHCA[b]H[/b]TOA is the functions of Sin Cos and Tan in the context of the sides a right angled triangle:
    Sin = Opposite/Hypotenuse
    Cos = Adjacent/Hypotenuse
    Tan = Opposite/Adjacent

    Is a rubbish way to learn it - far better the phrase "Tommy On A Ship Of His Caught All Herring"

    I use trig functions all the time, hand coding ancient Heidenhain TNC 150 series CNC controls on the machining centres at work.
    Yes I meant to add I remember pythagorus but not that one.
  • FF43FF43 Posts: 17,798
    This is the first time in 14 years the New Year in Syria doesn’t begin with bombing, massacres and death by Assad, Iran and Russia.

    https://bsky.app/profile/razanspeaks.bsky.social/post/3lemypcacoc26
  • pm215pm215 Posts: 1,221

    The old Arab sat on his camal and howled (from a 1980’s grammar education).
    The one I picked up was "the cat sat on an orange and had hysterics", which is a bit weird because it stripes across the three equations rather than doing them in order.

  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,425
    FF43 said:

    This is the first time in 14 years the New Year in Syria doesn’t begin with bombing, massacres and death by Assad, Iran and Russia.

    https://bsky.app/profile/razanspeaks.bsky.social/post/3lemypcacoc26

    https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1874016031137816787

    The French Minister of Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu has announced that the French Air Force carried out several Airstrikes on Sunday against ISIS Targets within Syria, in support of Operation Inherent Resolve; with him releasing Footage showing a number of the Strikes.
  • theProle said:

    Don't want to bust your bubble, but SOHCATOA isn't Pythagoras, and is missing a character.

    Pythagoras is that for any right angled triangle, a² + b² = c² where a and b are the lengths of the short sides and c the long side (hypotenuse)

    SOHCA[b]H[/b]TOA is the functions of Sin Cos and Tan in the context of the sides a right angled triangle:
    Sin = Opposite/Hypotenuse
    Cos = Adjacent/Hypotenuse
    Tan = Opposite/Adjacent

    Is a rubbish way to learn it - far better the phrase "Tommy On A Ship Of His Caught All Herring"

    I use trig functions all the time, hand coding ancient Heidenhain TNC 150 series CNC controls on the machining centres at work.
    Good summary.

    SOHCAHTOA has always worked for me, and I've remembered it my whole life.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 23,922

    I have been on PB for well over 10 years and possibly 15 years, certainly back in the day when Plato and myself used to discuss shoes, cooking and, occasionally, cats!

    It is time to move on and I do not want to face another 8192 posts and the last day of the year seems like an appropriate time.

    Thank you to you all (even CR :smiley: ) and a Happy New Year to everyone.
    Don't set a definite departure time as it inevitably gets broken. Instead, comment less or only when you feel you must. That's a lot more healthier and I think the site will be less for your absence
  • BlancheLivermoreBlancheLivermore Posts: 6,200
    edited December 2024
    Where I work, everyone who does loads of overtime, and we all work Sundays too, is in their 40s

    Are we a hard working generation, or is my.office an anomaly?
  • Pro_Rata said:

    The songs I've loved this year, with no particular order or claims of artistic merit, including the albums where I've loved them too:

    Kid Kapichi - Get Down; Oliver Twist (both from There Goes The Neighbourhood)
    The Reytons - Seven in Search of Ten, 2006 (from Ballad of a Bystander)
    Hozier - Too Sweet
    Bambie Thug - Doomsday Blue
    Jade - Angel of my Dreams
    Vampire Weekend - Capricorn, Hope (from my album of the year, Only God Was Above Us)
    Beabadobee - Beaches
    Hank - DYLM (my song of the year, from Twist Grip EP)
    MJ Lenderman - On My Knees (from Manning Fireworks)

    I think the most recent songs which breached my consciousness were Despacito and New Rules.
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 64,875
    edited December 2024
    Yougov poll in the Times tomorrow says the conservatives lead Labour on the economy

    How did that happen ?

    https://news.sky.com/story/new-years-days-national-newspaper-front-pages-12427754
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 5,517
    edited December 2024

    Yougov poll in the Times tomorrow says the conservatives lead Labour on the economy

    How did that happen ?

    https://news.sky.com/story/new-years-days-national-newspaper-front-pages-12427754

    Probably just vibes. Public expectations for Labour were too high. Public awareness of Kemi's economic policies, if she has any, will be essentially nil.
  • ohnotnowohnotnow Posts: 4,557

    https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1874016031137816787

    The French Minister of Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu has announced that the French Air Force carried out several Airstrikes on Sunday against ISIS Targets within Syria, in support of Operation Inherent Resolve; with him releasing Footage showing a number of the Strikes.
    Apart from that though. All good news for 2025?
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 58,993

    Where I work, everyone who does loads of overtime, and we all work Sundays too, is in their 40s

    Are we a hard working generation, or is my.office an anomaly?

    I bet you're cisgender too.
  • ohnotnowohnotnow Posts: 4,557

    I think the most recent songs which breached my consciousness were Despacito and New Rules.
    I'm just toddling off to bed, but the track that came to me tonight was...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VapVbH9uByA

    DM Stith - "Braid of Voices" (Meditation)

    (there are quite a few other mixes of it - but this one is quite pretty).

    And with that, cat and I are off to bed before falling asleep on the sofa. Have a good 2025 everyone!



  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 53,788
    rcs1000 said:

    I bet you're cisgender too.
    It depends.

    I think that the shit jobs, where it's run by David Brent, the work itself is pointless etc. - the young are simply not buying into the bullshit. Good for them.

    In the bank I work for, the grads come in. They do a few months in a series of rotations across the teams, to see what they actually want to do. Then after about 6 rotations, they get to pick/be picked for a permanent slot. Add decent pay, reasonable conditions and management that doesn't treat you like disposable tissue - strangely, they work hard and well, for the most part.

    There's a lesson in there. I wonder what that is?
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 53,788

    I am currently using Bayes theorem to find my son's tablet. With no success. He was using it too much and had cracked the password on the parental controls. So we hid it and forgot where. I have promised him a new one if we don't find it by the end if the year. The situation is getting critical.
    So betting with bottles of whisky on the location?
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 53,788
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    rcs1000 said:

    I bet you're cisgender too.
    Pulls themselves up by their bootstraps every morning. Great exercise.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,756

    I have been on PB for well over 10 years and possibly 15 years, certainly back in the day when Plato and myself used to discuss shoes, cooking and, occasionally, cats!

    It is time to move on and I do not want to face another 8192 posts and the last day of the year seems like an appropriate time.

    Thank you to you all (even CR :smiley: ) and a Happy New Year to everyone.
    See you around, Bev. HNY :D

  • Good summary.

    SOHCAHTOA has always worked for me, and I've remembered it my whole life.
    Also:
    BODMAS ( Brackets, Of, Divide, Multiply, Add, Subtract) to get the order of applying operators
    I Wish I Knew - the root of 2 (1.414)
    O Procure For Me - the root of 3 (1.732)
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 50,733

    I have been on PB for well over 10 years and possibly 15 years, certainly back in the day when Plato and myself used to discuss shoes, cooking and, occasionally, cats!

    It is time to move on and I do not want to face another 8192 posts and the last day of the year seems like an appropriate time.

    Thank you to you all (even CR :smiley: ) and a Happy New Year to everyone.
    Goodbye Bev, it's been great these years, but time to move on I suppose.

  • Yougov poll in the Times tomorrow says the conservatives lead Labour on the economy

    How did that happen ?

    https://news.sky.com/story/new-years-days-national-newspaper-front-pages-12427754

    Because Labour screwed it.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 30,847

    Because Labour screwed it.
    ...the golden legacy.
  • I've just read that Sunak did try and scrap the triple-lock, in a budget conversation in June 2021, so the elderly shared in the sacrifices their children and grandchildren made in the pandemic, but he was overruled by Johnson.

    He's gone up in my estimation.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 30,847
    God! Boomtown Rats on Jools. Utterly dreadful!

    HNY!
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 53,788

    God! Boomtown Rats on Jools. Utterly dreadful!

    HNY!

    Dirty old town…
  • MERRY NEW YEAR!

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  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 50,733

    God! Boomtown Rats on Jools. Utterly dreadful!

    HNY!

    Sophie Ellis-Bextor looking good on BBC1.

    I wish I aged so well
  • God! Boomtown Rats on Jools. Utterly dreadful!

    HNY!

    Why are you watching Jools?
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 30,847
    Foxy said:

    Sophie Ellis-Bextor looking good on BBC1.

    I wish I aged so well
    I remember fancying her mum on Blue Peter!
  • Happy New Year everyone!!!
  • TimSTimS Posts: 14,666

    God! Boomtown Rats on Jools. Utterly dreadful!

    HNY!

    I’ve just come off TF1 coverage (fireworks and le hip hop at chateau de Chantilly) to the beeb, with Sophie Ellis Bexter.

    I was hoping the clear superiority of the French feux d’artifice and generally much better looks of that nation’s people would be compensated for by a less cheesy, more edgy British production. But sadly not. It’s actually more cheesy and poorer quality than the silver-fox and bobbed brunette lineup of our Gallic friends, which is saying something.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,516
    Positively 4th Steet by Shatner. I don't know what to say.
  • DriverDriver Posts: 5,560
    Happy 45 squared, PBers!
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 64,875
    Happy New Year to everyone
  • TimSTimS Posts: 14,666
    Foxy said:

    Sophie Ellis-Bextor looking good on BBC1.

    I wish I aged so well
    She didn’t even sing her one hit. Poor.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,425
    Foxy said:

    Sophie Ellis-Bextor looking good on BBC1.

    I wish I aged so well
    They pre-record it earlier and earlier.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 62,082
    TimS said:

    She didn’t even sing her one hit. Poor.
    I know I know I know I know..
  • DriverDriver Posts: 5,560
    TimS said:

    She didn’t even sing her one hit. Poor.
    Possibly first song after the fireworks, that's the usual format IIRC.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 30,847

    They pre-record it earlier and earlier.
    Are the fireworks pre recorded too?
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 50,733
    TimS said:

    She didn’t even sing her one hit. Poor.
    She continues after the fireworks.
  • TimSTimS Posts: 14,666
    TimS said:

    I’ve just come off TF1 coverage (fireworks and le hip hop at chateau de Chantilly) to the beeb, with Sophie Ellis Bexter.

    I was hoping the clear superiority of the French feux d’artifice and generally much better looks of that nation’s people would be compensated for by a less cheesy, more edgy British production. But sadly not. It’s actually more cheesy and poorer quality than the silver-fox and bobbed brunette lineup of our Gallic friends, which is saying something.
    To be fair the London fireworks now are decent.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 30,847

    Why are you watching Jools?
    Sophie was getting on my nerves a bit but then Bob came on BBC2 and I'm back with Janet Ellis's daughter. She's put on a good fireworks show.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 62,082

    Sophie was getting on my nerves a bit but then Bob came on BBC2 and I'm back with Janet Ellis's daughter. She's put on a good fireworks show.
    I think she's good but her strutting around the stage amuses me.

    She also talks exactly how she sounds when she sings, which isn't always the case.
  • kjhkjh Posts: 12,378
    Happy new year everyone.
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 5,517
    Can I get an exemption from Dry January until 2am? Still drinking...
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 30,847
    kinabalu said:

    Positively 4th Steet by Shatner. I don't know what to say.

    Uncanny. I'm watching Star Trek with Bob Dylan as Captain Kirk.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 50,733
    carnforth said:

    Can I get an exemption from Dry January until 2am? Still drinking...

    Granted!
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,516
    HNY all. I've got a good feeling about 25.
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 5,517
    Foxy said:

    Granted!
    God bless our NHS.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 30,847
    kinabalu said:

    HNY all. I've got a good feeling about 25.

    You missed the US Presidential Election result then.
  • Happy New Year!
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 34,109
    edited January 1

    Why are you watching Jools?
    I enjoy watching the show, even if I don't particularly like the music.
  • MattWMattW Posts: 26,149
    Sandpit said:

    So I did 9700 steps per day in 2023, but only 5800 in 2024.

    Damn you that new job with an hour’s commute either way.

    I need a target for 2024, perhaps.

    I think a couple of times a week, with a 6 mile cycle there and back might be a start. Plus some more public footpath surveying on foot ot the Brompton.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 30,847
    Andy_JS said:

    I enjoy watching the show, even if I don't particularly like the music.
    Jools is great and so is Ruby Turner. The Rats, not so much. They haven't aged well.
  • DriverDriver Posts: 5,560
    Driver said:

    Possibly first song after the fireworks, that's the usual format IIRC.
    And there it is.
  • Pro_RataPro_Rata Posts: 5,537
    edited January 1
    Happy New Year all.

    And good luck Beibheirli. Always welcome to pop your head back round for an occasion or a pointless argument.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 53,377
    TimS said:

    She didn’t even sing her one hit. Poor.
    She just did!
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 34,109
    It only feels like about 10 years since the year 2000 to me. Time seems to speed up.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 30,847
    edited January 1
    Andy_JS said:

    It only feels like about 10 years since the year 2000 to me. Time seems to speed up.

    You have subconsciously cast 14 years of Tory Governments out of your mind. Who can blame you?
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,756
    Happy New Year, PB.

    All the best for 2025 🙏
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,756
    edited January 1
    malcolmg said:

    Happy New Year , I am toasting everyone with a nice 50 year old Glen Grant.

    Wish I was there ❤

    HNY, Malc.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 53,788
    Pro_Rata said:

    Happy New Year all.

    And good luck Beibheirli. Always welcome to pop your head back round for an occasion or a pointless argument.

    It’s one pound for a five minute argument, but it’ll eight pounds for a course of ten.
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 5,517

    You have subconsciously cast 14 years of Tory Governments out of your mind. Who can blame you?
    Well, it was rather a rollercoaster after the first five years...
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,866
    Happy New Year everyone!
    What madness will 2025 bring?
  • FairlieredFairliered Posts: 5,472
    malcolmg said:

    Happy New Year , I am toasting everyone with a nice 50 year old Glen Grant.

    Happy New Year, Malcolm, and Happy New Year to your young friend Glen, as well.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 34,109
    edited January 1
    Elections this year in Australia, Canada, Germany, Norway.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,866
    Happy New Year to my friends and family.
    Isn't the implication that everyone else can f off?
  • MattWMattW Posts: 26,149
    edited January 1

    I am currently using Bayes theorem to find my son's tablet. With no success. He was using it too much and had cracked the password on the parental controls. So we hid it and forgot where. I have promised him a new one if we don't find it by the end if the year. The situation is getting critical.
    A tag - Air or otherwise - would have been cheaper.

    I say that he knew where you hid it, and has hidden it from you, and that you will find it where you thought you hid it in a few days - after his new one arrives.

    And that youngsters are better at poker faces than you think.

    The probability of you finding it, given that the probability that he has rehidden it is One, is Zero.
  • stodgestodge Posts: 14,379
    Andy_JS said:

    Elections this year in Australia, Canada, Germany, Norway.

    On the current polls you’d expect defeats for the incumbents in Germany and Canada. In Norway, the Progress Party, their equivalent of Reform, is ahead of the Conservatives and well up on the last election. The governing coalition parties have lost about half their vote.

    In Australia, the opposition Liberal-National coalition has a healthy lead over Labor but with the Greens and Independents still polling well, the two-party split of 51-49 in favour of Liberal-National suggests this will be close.
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 29,817
    Elon Musk ‘living in cottage on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate’
    World’s richest man whose money helped secure election victory ‘drops in at dinners and listens into calls with US president-elect’

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/12/31/elon-musk-cottage-donald-trump-mar-a-lago-estate/ (£££)

    Spare a thought for the homeless.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 23,922
    happy new year one and all!
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 23,922
    edited January 1
    Robert Saunders ‪@robertsaunders.bsky.social‬ December 29, 2024 at 10:33 AM

    I've also been thinking about this. Life is hard for many people, but we are nowhere near the conditions of the 1930s or even the '70s. For all their faults, democratic states provide services today beyond the imagination of most generations. So we need a deeper analysis of democratic discontent.

    My answer to Robert is simple: we now have the internet. Before the internet we all lived in a consensual hallucination in which we thought that we were on the same side and the Government was doing its best for us. After the internet we know that isn't true. Hence the discontent.

  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 50,933
    viewcode said:

    Go to the bookshop and order "Late Soviet Britain" by Laura Innes. She details how the Thatcher/Blair reforms, whilst promising to create a hands-off version of Government, just ended up creating a regime of nomenklatura fixers and overseers that are a law unto themselves, creating a command-and-control structure very similar to, say, the Brezhnev era.

    Then when you are done (it is a very dense book), order "The Rise and Fall of the British Nation" in which David Edgerton details how things used to be done and its eventual evolution to how things are done now.

    It is often instructive to see how things developed to understand how we got here, and both books detail 20th century history to that end.
    I’d normally be up for that, but the handful of reviews seem to suggest people who enjoy the conclusion rather more than the book itself.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 50,933
    edited January 1
    Andy_JS said:

    It only feels like about 10 years since the year 2000 to me. Time seems to speed up.

    I know, it’s scary. I completed a big work project that year, and it still doesn’t seem that long ago.

    That the length of time between now and my student days is the same as the length of time between my student days and the outbreak of WWII simply doesn’t compute. History all seems a lot more recent when you are older.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 23,922
    IanB2 said:

    I’d normally be up for that, but the handful of reviews seem to suggest people who enjoy the conclusion rather more than the book itself.
    Assuming you mean the Innes book, yes, it is dense and a hard read: you have to take notes. I'm about two-thirds of the way thru in my first read, and I'll have to re-read it a couple of times more to get it.

    But if you mean the Edgerton book, he's far more approachable.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 23,922
    Abby Innes, not Laura Innes. :(
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 45,094
    Happy New Year, everyone!
  • Peter_the_PunterPeter_the_Punter Posts: 14,562

    Happy New Year, everyone!

    And the same to everyone from the PtP household.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,823
    Happy New Year to all.

    Damascus celebrations:
    https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/1874244252924076042

    Still not your average Islamic state.
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 62,361
    Good morning, everyone.

    My research has revealed it is raining outside.
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 54,203

    Good morning, everyone.

    My research has revealed it is raining outside.

    The dog has confirmed it is both wet and windy outside. Hasty retreat beaten; now rather more gruntled, sleeping against my legs on the bed.

    Having spent as near a silent half hour cleaning up phase 1 of the party debris as I could, I am rewarding myself with a New Year Lie-in.

    I suspect the Good Lady will have some innate ability to stay abed until I have finished phases 2 and 3 of the clean up.

    Phase 4 will require a tip run.

    Night-night (again)
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 62,361

    The dog has confirmed it is both wet and windy outside. Hasty retreat beaten; now rather more gruntled, sleeping against my legs on the bed.

    Having spent as near a silent half hour cleaning up phase 1 of the party debris as I could, I am rewarding myself with a New Year Lie-in.

    I suspect the Good Lady will have some innate ability to stay abed until I have finished phases 2 and 3 of the clean up.

    Phase 4 will require a tip run.

    Night-night (again)
    Hope you can get to sleep. Heavy rain plus occasional fireworks meant I was waking up numerous times.

    There'll be plenty of local flooding, I think.
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 34,384
    Good morning! And a Happy New Year to all!
    Didn’t See the New Year in; after an early start yesterday we both crashed out about 10.30pm!
    Let us hope for better times in 2025!
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 45,094
    ISTR that one Labour fan on here proclaimed "an end to the rail strikes" a few months ago, as a sign of how good this new government was.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgzpwdkl01o
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,050

    Hope you can get to sleep. Heavy rain plus occasional fireworks meant I was waking up numerous times.

    There'll be plenty of local flooding, I think.
    Oddly, I was just thinking how the heavy rain meant at least there weren't hundreds of bloody fireworks going off all night.
  • FishingFishing Posts: 5,445

    ISTR that one Labour fan on here proclaimed "an end to the rail strikes" a few months ago, as a sign of how good this new government was.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgzpwdkl01o

    More than a thousand years ago we learned that paying the Danegeld means the Dane keeps coming back.

    Amazing that. 45 years after the winter of discontent, people still don't get that the greed of unions is insatiable. But then of course they largely fund the (misnamed) Labour Party so we're stuck with them for the next four years at least I'm afraid.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 50,933
    ydoethur said:

    Oddly, I was just thinking how the heavy rain meant at least there weren't hundreds of bloody fireworks going off all night.
    Mr Dog likes wind and rain on NYE. It’s been this way several years running, here. Although last night they managed to get the small town display off early, come midnight there was next to nothing.
  • Dura_AceDura_Ace Posts: 14,222
    Fishing said:

    More than a thousand years ago we learned that paying the Danegeld means the Dane keeps coming back.

    Amazing that. 45 years after the winter of discontent, people still don't get that the greed of unions is insatiable. But then of course they largely fund the (misnamed) Labour Party so we're stuck with them for the next four years at least I'm afraid.
    It's the high wage economy that Johnson promised us that brexit would deliver. You should be ripping the head off your old boy over it.
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