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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 · 11h

#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 · 11h

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 🍜

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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.

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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 · 1d

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.

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 1d

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

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

"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 · 4d

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

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 4d

🤣 Phobias apparently!

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 4d

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

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 4d

Yep it actually happened!

Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 4d

I was told to put content warnings on photos of my dog. On the plus side it was really easy to delete my account (snark unintended, I do think that's an important thing).

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Stuart Hedges @stuarthedges.bsky.social · 5d

Sky Arts broadcast Marillion's 2017 gig at the Albert Hall the other week, just watching it now. Floored by Neverland, as I always am. Just incredible that it's 21 years old. Never loses its impact on me.