Life & Times

Nov 18, 2024 ⌘

This ITV podcast is a powerful indictment of how badly we treat people in social housing in the UK. The pod highlights a litany of failures by the British state.

Read more and view the episodes here: thetrapped.co.uk

Nov 17, 2024 ⌘

This may help migrate your connections from 𝕏 to Bluesky.

Sky Follower Bridge

Nov 15, 2024 ⌘

Come on Kier, wake up and get a move on!

Step up Brexit reset, or European allies will lose patience, Starmer warned. The call comes after Bank of England’s governor Andrew Bailey said the UK should rebuild relations with the European Union as he warned of the economic consequences of leaving the bloc.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-reset-eu-uk-bank-england-keir-starmer-b2647731.html

Jun 24, 2024 ⌘

This is an interesting article from Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace that ranks political parties’ election manifestos ahead of polling day on 4 July. After scrutinising the details, Labour scores four times higher than the Conservatives, but the Greens and Liberal Democrats claim first and second place, respectively. friendsoftheearth.uk/system-ch…

May 29, 2024 ⌘

Lightroom’s Generative Fill is impressive. This is a before and after photo of the tower on Glastonbury Tor.

a photo of Glastonbury Tor A photo of Glastobury Tor

Sony a6300, processed in Lightroom Classic 📷

May 22, 2024 ⌘

We met this swan on the estuary on our walk this morning.

A photo of a swan with a nice reflection in the water

iPhone 14 Pro, processed in Lightroom Classic 📷

May 20, 2024 ⌘

Anyone interested in how Britain’s water companies are letting us down should read this article in The New Statesman. The piece by Will Dunn discusses how privatisation and the pursuit of profit lead to the devastation of England’s waterways.

May 1, 2024 ⌘

It was misty in the valley this morning.