@phoneboy Juicy! My daughter always stops to harvest the bushes near me, they never look quite this tasty though.
@matigo It seemed so. Compared with previous and subsequent neighbours they generated sooooo much heat - they must have had the heating on all the time. Or maybe it was a cannabis factory!
// @hazardwarning @phoneboy
@hazardwarning I used to live above someone who had their heating on all year. 30 degrees (100F) and they're still cranking it out - made summers even worse especially as it's a modern building with all the proper insulation in walls and roofs.
On the plus side my heating bills for winter were minuscule e.g. that recent winter with the massive snowfall I turned a radiator on just once for about an hour for the whole winter!
// @phoneboy
@larand I'm a member of Electoral Reform Society as well as a party that supports STV-PR (per Republic of Ireland's system) so I've got dozens of reports and market research bits showing what our various parliaments' compositions would potentially be under a other systems and it always seems _fairer_ even though the same parties would win and some of the more unpalatable parties get seats - the price for believing in democracy I guess.
But I think the UK probably would have gotten into the same mess with a different system and the same two main parties; but I reckon one way or the other it would have been sorted by now (as a fairer voting system would give electorate a chance to punish parties more easily).
// @matigo @hazardwarning
@matigo As much as I dislike a significant number of the current crop it's the crappy old fashioned electoral system that deserves a significant chunk of the blame for entrenching them and their ilk.
Should the monarch decide to do this I will be up in arms (literally). :-D
// @hazardwarning @larand
@larand I like the way that two people being injured is relegated to the seventh paragraph, yet news that the celebrity parasite that helps rule an out-of-date nation and its subjects is ok is prominent. And the Grauniad is supposed to be a republican publication!
@matigo I'm unable to access the admin panel for that account - the account name is my email address (stripped of . & @) and the email address is my long, randomly-generated password for this account. I've not set a password so no idea how to log in!
To be clear - it's the "@mesimoncoopeynet" that I created in error, when trying to sign in to this account.