There's a little bit of hype in the piece, and it is more complex. It quotes 720k empties, which will include eg all the ones on sale, stuck in estates and so on aiui, and 265k >6 month empti… (View Post)

My last weird obscurity that came up on YT yesterday. Lake Peigneur in Louisiana. Salt mine beneath a lake. Water leaked apparently via an oil exploration drill breaking through. The water dissolved … (View Post)

Bomp bomp bomp, and another one ... ! (That's 2 Deputy CC Leaders in a week.) The deputy leader of Worcestershire County Council has resigned, three months into the role. David Taylor, from the … (View Post)

I agree, sticking my neck out and not wanting to cause offence, and having watched both my parents go in a not dissimilar way. Mum was in hospital for a month at the end at 82, and dad was due to asb… (View Post)

Hmmm. Not sure how terminally nerdy @Leon is being, or whether he wants obscure walk-on curios that his readers may not want to visit. There's the "Birthplace of Silicon Valley" in SF,… (View Post)