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Stuart Hedges

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Serial adopter of retired greyhounds. Retrofitted a 1970s ex-council house with solar/batteries/heat pump/EV. Keen home cook.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · Jan 4

I've been meaning to do a thread about our eco-home retrofit, as it all happened before I started on Bluesky. Here goes!

Our house is a 1970s-built ex-council house, mid-terrace, timber frame. All very standard and ordinary.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 2h

Ha! Who's surprised to hear this?

www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Parliamentary staff of colour earn £2,000 less than white colleagues, study suggests

Exclusive: Report by GMB union also finds pay disparity for women and disabled, trans, non-binary and gay staffers

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 2h

No doubt the adoration of a crowd makes people feel powerful and able to do whatever they want but I think managing that is down to the people around them, not you.

I remember my grandma talking about this dilemma re Sinatra when I was really too young to understand...

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 2h

I don't know the first thing about it but one of the really cool things about social media is finding out about the stuff that other people are passionate about! Tell us more please.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 16h

#Lewes buddies should go to the flood exhibition at Fitzroy if you get the chance. I found it very moving; I wasn't here in 2000 but I have experienced flooding (Godalming 2013) so the personal testimonies and photos felt very familiar to me. Well worth seeing.

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 16h

Had lunch and did some food shopping here today. I wasn't expecting much - on an industrial estate outside #Newhaven - but it was amazing. Really delicious focaccia sandwiches and the deli has some great Italian products. Highly recommended 🍜

isolabuona.co.uk

Sardinian food - Italian food online - home delivery | Isola Buona

Italian food from Sardinia to your home. Specialties of Sardinian and Italian cuisine in Newhaven and Hove - Sussex in the UK. Taste in our delicatessen shop.

isolabuona.co.uk

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 1d

Loads here in East Sussex, we're not far from the river so i assumed they were something to do with that but they seem to be everywhere.

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 2d

Not much in central London. Just re-read the article to see if she's solo or only earner in a family etc but not a hint.

My employers insist on that 11 hour break because they don't want us crashing our cars on the commute or making mistakes on the job. It's a good, sensible rule.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 2d

We ate the haggis and tatties (I did carrots too) but the neeps were sadly inedible!

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 2d

This is an astonishingly bad take. That 11 hour break is vital and a sensible employer should insist on it.

The question is: why is she so poorly paid that she felt the need to do that?

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 2d

I was in Paris today and went to a brilliant exhibition at the Musée Carnavalet about Parisians in the 1920s and 1930s.

Especially liked …

www.carnavalet.paris.fr/en/exhibitio...

The people of Paris, 1926-1936

Taking three Parisian population censuses as a starting point, the exhibition The People of Paris,1926-1936, through the lens of population censuses offers a fr

www.carnavalet.paris.fr

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 2d

Boiled this swede under a lid for 40 minutes, mashed it and it was still stringy and hard - far too unpleasant to eat. Had it been hanging around since last autumn? Or did I cock it up somehow? 🍜

Two dinner plates which have been cleaned of food except for the horrible stringy swede. No idea what I did wrong.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 3d

Just watched this episode in advance of listening to the podcast. Someone has great fun doing a Sean Connery impression in the first couple of minutes, would love to know who that was and how they got away with it!

A Dream Given Form @adreamgivenform.bsky.social · 4d

New episode!

Marcus and Franklin investigate alien possession in Down Below, in a somewhat middling episode of #Babylon5.

@medusacascade.bsky.social joins @bazgreenland.bsky.social and @lukewinch.bsky.social to discuss Exogenisis

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 3d

Great news, I used to really enjoy it!

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 4d

Sure, but they'll never be a sensible centre-right party. They'll go more and more fascist then fight each other to the death when Farage quits. That's why we need a sensible conservative party.

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 4d

I have a mild disapproval of Brits choosing to live in Spain without bothering to learn the language but they should have been free to enjoy those holiday/retirement homes.

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 4d

Lots of fairly bitter schadenfreude from fellow remainers in the replies to this. A couple of years ago I'd have probably been one of them but now I'm just sad, for all of us.

Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 4d

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 4d

She gets everywhere. It's a really full working life for a ship that nominally retired decades ago.

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 4d

You need a second phone? This has always bothered me too.

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 4d

It's a cargo cult. Guys, she's not coming back.

I hate saying this but Britain does actually need a sensible, functioning centre-right party (and left, but that's a different matter) - Tories, please sort yourselves out.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 5d

"Thatcher theatre" - pretty much sums up cul-de-sac into which the Conservative Party has driven itself in the decades since her defenestration. And now it too, risks becoming a museum piece, fit only for two or three glass display cases rather than a return to office.

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 4d

This is a thing that never happens, and a question that I haven't seen since leaving Twitter.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 4d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 5d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 4d

I can hear everyone in the public sector nodding along to this.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4d

THE SECRET PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS IS FINALLY LIVE

CHECK IT OUT

outsidersartsclub.com

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 4d

🤣 Phobias apparently!

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 5d

This was certainly the local story when I was growing up in the area. Seem to remember a kids' book that used it too?