[Spoonman]

While advising people to stay at home, the tv news companies have done their favourite thing of sending reporters and camera staff to the coast. They are often as close to the edge as possible., while tut-tuttimg at other people further along who are also as close to the edge as possible.

Thanks for giving me the opportunity then to (re)post this!

[Samanfur]

There's been snow around here, as well as the wind.

One of the neighbours' wheelie bins went flying past earlier, and the wind's howling loudly enough that it's frightening my cats.

[Spoonman]

Meanwhile in Devon...

...while in Spoonyland, nothing much with wind but had a bit of a snowfall - it's thawing away in the sun in between wintry showers. The yellow weather warnings here are for snow ATM and ice for tonight.

[Nigredo]

We really should revive that Twat of The Day thread

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I was in Wimbledon today. It was so windy I felt the Volvo quiver.

[Nigredo]

[Samanfur]

Filmed last June, according to the comments.

Still impressive, though.

[soulboy]

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/new ... ntre-wall/



Some proper Darwin Award candidates out there today. People were still going in and out of Poundland without a care in the world as the cladding was flapping in the wind.

[Spoonman]

I've also been glued to this livestream of planes attempting to land at Heathrow today:

Noticeably a big Qatar Airways jet with 4 engines didn't fancy the landing two or three times and diverted to Gatwick for an easier time. Gulp

At its peak earlier that YT stream had over 180,000 viewers, ATM its around 112,000.

The folks at GBeebies must be distraught that an amateur live stream of planes landing at Heathrow on YouTube is getting multiple times the viewers (perhaps x10) than they are right now.

[kreuzberger]

The folks at GBeebies must be distraught that an amateur live stream of planes landing at Heathrow on YouTube is getting multiple times the viewers (perhaps x10) than they are right now.

Let's pitch them the idea of Darren Grimes trying to land a 747 in to the teeth of a violent westerly. Special shout-out to the ground-crew, ably led by Nigel, the Farrage handler.

[Boiler]

Can we add any of the " 'seasy, innit? How hard is it to pull a handle?" brigade to that list?

[The All New KevS]

I was in Wimbledon today. It was so windy I felt the Volvo quiver.

FILTH!!!!

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I was in Wimbledon today. It was so windy I felt the Volvo quiver.

FILTH!!!!

Well it is a foetid shithole, by all accounts.

[MisterMuncher]

I was in Wimbledon today. It was so windy I felt the Volvo quiver.

Having recently taken possession of a Volvo myself, I can report it knocked over the Hen, Cock and Pigeon mountains under screaming blizzard conditions tonight with absolute nonchalance.

Absolutely lovely machine, and on the quiet goes like shit off a shiny shovel. I should have bought one fucking years ago.

[Boiler]

I've also been glued to this livestream of planes attempting to land at Heathrow today:

Noticeably a big Qatar Airways jet with 4 engines didn't fancy the landing two or three times and diverted to Gatwick for an easier time. Gulp

At its peak earlier that YT stream had over 180,000 viewers, ATM its around 112,000.

The folks at GBeebies must be distraught that an amateur live stream of planes landing at Heathrow on YouTube is getting multiple times the viewers (perhaps x10) than they are right now.

Interview with Jerry Dyer on the BBC here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-60445558

[Bones McCoy]

The folks at GBeebies must be distraught that an amateur live stream of planes landing at Heathrow on YouTube is getting multiple times the viewers (perhaps x10) than they are right now.

Let's pitch them the idea of Darren Grimes trying to land a 747 in to the teeth of a violent westerly. Special shout-out to the ground-crew, ably led by Nigel, the Farrage handler.

So unfair!!
I hear Darren's a dab hand with the joystick.

[Cyclist]

Kwasi Kwarteng tones down anti-fracking rhetoric after No 10 hints at U-turn – as it happened
No 10 has not ruled out lifting the government’s moratorium on fracking, saying ‘all options’ would be considered.

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/li ... visas-live

Just a reminder that our government would like us all to concentrate on events in Ukraine and forget about everything else.

[Nigredo]

https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4046 ... gas-fields

Unfortunately there will be no market for heat pumps and home insulation until the Tories figure out a way to harvest foreign donations for it.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Chatting to our French neighbour and her system, for which she paid un bras et un jambe, struggles to reach 19º, and she is making a complaint to the engineer who fitted it.

[Cyclist]

Some interesting news

Scientists have discovered an alternative to costly and environmentally damaging lithium-ion batteries – used in everything from smartphones to electric cars – in the form of a 140-year old technology.

Iron-air batteries, first invented in 1878, hold a far higher energy density to lithium-ion batteries at a fraction of the cost, however until now they have impractical for recharging purposes due to rusting.

A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology now claims to have fine-tuned a process known as “reverse rusting” in order to allow the new design to charge and discharge energy...

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/batt ... 6.html?amp

Could this be the first step to what the world is looking for?