I just saw a Party Political for Reform, for the local elections. You would think immigration was a local government issue
I’d stop anyone from Hampshire coming in from a start. The Cornish are obviously beyond the pail. And immigration from Somerset would be on an Australian-style points basis
This seems quite useful if you’re thinking of retiring, ever. The figures are for the UK, and assume you’re rent and mortgage free :0
From Home - PLSA - Retirement Living Standards
I’m not sure what I’ve been more confused by over the years
The day and the month being the other way around in American dates, or red and blue being the other way around in American politics
🇬🇧🇺🇸 #EasilyConfused
Does anyone, other than the New Yorker, use the spelling ‘coördinating’?
People have written that, in Dickens' books, London is a character in its own right. London interacts with other characters, and moves the story forward.
That being the case, it makes absolute sense that people would want to visit the locations associated with the books.
‘Dickensland’ is an entertaining tour of such sites…whether they are real or fake.
Finished reading: Dickensland by Lee Jackson 📚
I quite enjoyed Last One Laughing, but I think it’s more like very good Reality TV than it is like good comedy
I found this today - there’s a good list of ‘additional resources’ for Pester on the website:
Elizabeth Frink’s Walking Madonna, and the big, old church
I wasn’t keen on Persuader, but I enjoyed the latest Reacher season, which was based on it
SPOILER: ending of the Old Curiosity Shop
In his letters Dickens spoke both about breaking his heart over the ending of the Old Curiousity shop, and about “committing Nell-icide”
So Kobo says the book here is a Child’s History of England but the cover says it’s a Tale of Two Cities
More interesting, I’m fairly sure that the painting is the end of Castle Street in Salisbury
It would’ve been a different story if one of the Cities had been Salisbury. I’d like to have read it.
Searching websites from the Edge address bar
I didn’t know you could set up site searches in Edge. I assume it’s the same in Chrome, Chromium etc.
You do it as follows.
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go to Settings
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in the search do ‘Manage Search Engines’
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fill in the form as below
The easy way to get the URL is to go to the site you want to set up a search for and do a search. Copy the URL you end up on, and replace your search term with %s
I dunno if I’d use this for lots of websites…but it’s particularly handy for work-environment wiki and trouble-ticket systems
I’m a bit nervous out this one ⚽ #LegChe
Top bins, the spider's web, where the owls sleep and Declan Rice
I’m obviously hoping that Real beat Arsenal 4-0 back at the Bernabeu, but I enjoyed the different descriptions of where Declan Rice put his free kicks
“My old goalkeeper coach at West Ham, Ludek Miklosko, used to call that top corner of the goal next to the stanchion ‘the spiders’ web'. When I worked on an England game with John Murray for BBC Radio 5 Live last month, he said that in Brazil they call it ‘where the owls sleep’. Every country has a different saying for it - we know it as ‘top bins’.”
Malcolm Tucker on the Cramps
Our influences were Bowie, Talking Heads and the Cramps, who were like a voodoo-swamp version of the Munsters
There’s a very brief window between me understanding how something works and me forgetting how it works
In the UK Liz Truss has become a byword for economic disaster
She might be quite pleased that she’ll likely be replaced as such by Donald Trump
I knew you could install Chrome extensions in Edge...but I didn't know how.
- click on the extension button…which looks like a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, then
- Manage Extensions, then
- switch the switch for ‘Allow extensions from other stores.’, then
- do a search, then when it can’t find the extension in the Edge store…
- click on the Chrome Web Store link
You could just use Chrome instead….but for reasons I can no longer remember, I prefer Edge
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I’ve been looking at Obsidian,but I’m going to stick with Joplin for note-taking because, if you’ve already got cloud storage, synchronizing is free and very, very easy
