SteamyTea

Where they cleaning up the food waste in St. Pauls?

Because they get poisoned when they eat Great Crested Newts. I see lots of badgers 'sleeping' on the side of the roads. When I worked in London, my Sales Manager had to pick me up as we were going to the very exciting plastics show at NEC. I told her to drive up the M40 to High Wycombe, wiggle though the town and take the road past Hughenden Manor, turn right by the pub, then left at the end of the road towards Chequers Estate. Eventually you find Aylesbury. She was amazed at the amount of road kill, or supper, as she assumed us swedes called it.

That was your personal salary, I suspect that the median of £25,000 now (or whenever the survey was done) is household salary. The way it was measured changed sometime in the 1990s. It also now includes benefits, which as anyone knows who has claimed Working Credit, knows is a pigs ear of a system.

Yes, I suspect it is the same economically too.

A few years back there was an area of St. Ives that was one of the poorest in the EU. Median household wage was 60% of national average. Was 'cured' by moving the people. I park in one of the streets as it is free, but a steep climb back to the car. Places like Ruan Major and Minor on the Lizard are so remote they are effective out side the economy.

In all fairness, for every 1 of you, there may be 100 others doing minimum wage jobs. A mate of mine is an experienced ME, but after all the free hours he does to keep his job, he is not earning much over minimum wage. But most of us put up with the very low wages for the other benefits.

Got around to measuring them, will easily fit in a 2 inch gap. Think I got them at B&Q.

Generically they are very closely related. Can follow a migration path up from Northern Spain, through West France, Cornwall, Wales, Ireland and Scotland. But the genetics flow both ways and sea routes to the Mediterranean were also common. There is the theory that the 'Briton' comes from 'Picton', which is meant to be 'painted people'. The Romans said 'get some tin from those painted people'. No idea how true it is, but an interesting idea, especially as the Celts were a very large and dispersed group in Europe.

Not really sure, I intend to go and have a proper look sometime. I think it must be on 3 floors, though the top floor may be a bit grey, unless there are roof lights in it. I do quite like it, but then I like a lot of contemporary (odd) places. Judging by the large concrete beam, I suspect it was a relatively new build, but no idea if it was gobbling up an old place. There is a lot of very old, badly built, places down here. They get sold as holiday homes to up country folk. I want to build a new shed, may take some design cues from this, and if the people from World Heritage come around, I shall just point them to this house overlooking the long term car park and say 'and your point is'.

Don't worry, you will be with EDF come Christmas. https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEGLomCYWjgsxaWzbOmV6hrcqFggEKg4IACoGCAowl6p7MN-zCTDlkko?hl=en-GB&gl=GB&ceid=GB%3Aen

This place has come up in conversation because a new member is building here. I meant to say welcome to @Ruben, so hello. St. Ives is an interesting place, I like it a lot. But I thought I would show you a house I spotted last week while I was working here. They have mixed traditional with modern. Be fun to work out the price per metre squared, I think about 450 quid.

Many people decide to do paperwork on a rainy day. I do it on a sunny day, makes me work more effectively so I can go out and play.

So what do you think of them now?

I paid 2 quid for my lampshades at Ikea, about 17 years ago. The pattern masks the cobwebs nicely, not that I remember them being patterned when I got got them. So that is a bonus.

nullschool.net shows particulates across the globe. I am at 12 ug.m-3 for PM10

If the sensors are DHTs, they are pretty dire to be honest. The 22 is better than the 11.

@Christine Walker Sounds confusing, but really much simpler. One rate on every single penny you earn. Only thing to argue about then is the rate.

Getting back on topic to house building. The first cut is the deepest. Baby I know.

All this is why I think we should just tax on income. A house sale would be considered income.

Usually, if something is perceived to be a problem, it is best to get rid of it. What they should do with stamp duty. Or just rationalise it so that every sale is liable. It is really the 'half measures' i.e. where it applies to some properties and not others, some areas are except for a time, Like almost everything in our tax system, it is a pigs ear.

Do it, and have a pack of EverReady batteries on a saucer, instead of biscuits. I like taking the biscuit.

They may be claiming the FiTs and then giving it back, minus a cut, as part of the sharing deal. Similar to what 'Roof for Rent' schemes did. They allowed you to self consume as much as you could because they were getting the 41p/kWh, plus all the 50% deemed export regardless. Like any decentralised system, it needs a critical mass of compliant consumers.

Go to their website, it is horrible and disruptive. I suspect they are going to be another supplier that is not about long.

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EDF do E7. For years they have been my best provider, but recently they have been one of the most expensive. This may change as the wholesale price has dropped. I know someone that just fixed his price with one of the smaller companies (can't remember who), then found out that he could have saved 20% by going to EDF. My problem is that I cannot save a vast amount as I am a low user, and I like quarterly billing. So stuck with standard tariffs after a misreading that left me with £90 bank charges.