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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 14h

In British English, usually just "the shopping". Or "the weekly shop", "the food shop" or "trip to the supermarket"

HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 15h

An urban bus route can carry far more people than could use the bus lane by bicycle. Imagine 90 bikes crossing a junction in a single phase of the lights, let alone 180 or 270. Cyclists would give up in disgust and take the bus instead. The equilibrium still has lots of buses.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 18h

Sorry, wrong thread.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 18h

You strike the patent troll with the prior art.
You miss.
The patent troll crushes you with the war chest.
You are dead.
The patent attorney sits down and starts singing about gold.
The patent troll leaves.
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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 20h

There's a real problem that nobody can spend 30 hours every week looking for jobs, so the Universal Credit rules encourage performative looking.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 1d

It might sit with us in DESNZ. Permeability of walls is a variable in SAP and the new Home Energy Model - although it is not an input in RdSAP, so it will not affect your EPC rating.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 1d

Presence of haunting or apparitions is not covered in the English Housing Survey, in either the physical or interview datasets, so it cannot be all that important to MHCLG. Maybe DCMS?

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 1d

D'oh.

HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 1d

At the point of his writing that poem, yes.

HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 1d

I was disappointed that he then accidentally put on the shirt from one pair with the trousers of the other. Any child of mine should have done it deliberately.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 1d

L, when I shared my insight just now, proved you wrong by pulling a 'quadruple of pyjamas' from under his pillow, where for some reason he had two half-worn pairs. Which, as he observed, makes six.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 1d

That might be the full answer when the questioner is objecting to your appropration of the issue - why not let them speak for themselves?

HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 1d

I'm fairly sure Martin Niemöller would have said the same.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 1d

A pair of pyjamas includes a pair of pyjama trousers, as well as one pyjama shirt, which actually makes three pyjamas.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 1d

"No scientist ever lies", he ironized.

HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 2d

You need a numberplate to get one, but does it need to belong to a car?

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 2d

Does the minimum cost to park exceed the bus fare? If not, the rational thing is to buy your bus ticket at the pay & display machine.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 3d

If it's your own side stabbing each other that's 'intestine'. Internecine fighting is between enemies. So sa my latin beak & i hav no reason to disbeleive him.

HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for this account. I have both personal & professional interests in all this. We have a concept of a hard-to-treat wall for external insulation, which might be because it's above a conservatory, but don't count h-t-t roofs. I wonder how yours is ever maintained!

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, ok. I'd better eat more bananas.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 4d

There's a lot of good potash and phosphate in there, but it's very alkaline. Not every plant will love it.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 4d

Can I - while I have you - ask about the solar PV? Do you get free use of it, including any export payments? And does it have wifi controls, and if so do you provide the wifi or does the landlord?

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 4d

It's all so much more complicated for rental properties. Landlords' and tenants' interests are not the same, and it always take a bit of time and learning to get a dwelling to work well - which windows to open when, etc. And that's harder with low-temperature heat.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 4d

In London our ASHP achieved a COP of 4.2 over its first full year, which is plenty good enough to be cheaper to run than gas. (It would probably have been _higher_ if the house was less energy efficient, and the pump could run for longer!)

And we dodge the gas standing charge, too.

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, it's assuming a Dutch pattern of energy use and excluding heat. Though I must disagree with you about heat pumps: there is no heatable building that cannot be heated with a heat pump, if you are prepared to install wide enough pipes and large enough radiators. This isn't always cheap.

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