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John Bownas
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Hastings, festivals, live music, stage lighting, truth, justice, and Any Which Way You Choose…
Meanwhile at Chalk in Brighton…
December 5, 2024 at 10:11 PM
So… zero engagement here… meanwhile on good old FB… loads of views, likes, and comments… hmmm
December 4, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Any thoughts on what these are for? Silverhill junction of London and Bohemia Roads in Hastings…
December 4, 2024 at 10:17 AM
Here’s a thing - my last week of posting on FB and here.

3,500 engagements on FB vs about 6 on BS.

I call BS…
December 3, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Tonight on Masterchef they are all at it… have you ‘done a Gregg’?
December 3, 2024 at 10:03 PM
That time Carol had to get someone with a calculator to check a contestant’s answer and multiply 318 by 75 … and then after subtracting 50 dividing 23,850 by 25 to get to 952… that was proper numberwang!!
December 3, 2024 at 9:18 AM
The irony here is that we are looking at grudgingly giving temporary asylum to refugees from an island which the UK forcibly (and illegally) evicted the entire population in the 1970s to clear it for military use.

Migrants brought to UK from remote military island www.bbc.com/news/article...
Migrants moved from secretive UK military island after three years
www.bbc.com
December 3, 2024 at 7:14 AM
My Facebook feed is local and relevant to me. My BlueSky feed is globally worthy, but lacking in ‘me’
November 30, 2024 at 9:42 PM
So I put some lights on our town tree…
November 30, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Career [alt.def] back of the car
November 30, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Mascarpone [alt.def] disguise our small horse
November 29, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Catastrophe [alt.def] The winner receives a cat…
November 28, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Forget seasoning on #masterchef - let’s go for overproof rum…
November 27, 2024 at 11:46 PM
Sometimes you need a bigger ladder… this is ‘Crocodile Dundee’ size…
November 27, 2024 at 11:43 PM
How we used to live…
November 27, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Quiz: you burn a gallon of unleaded petrol weighing about 3.3kg - will the weight of the resulting CO2 be the same, heavier or lighter?
November 26, 2024 at 10:15 AM
Just a few cool Hastings gigs incoming…
November 25, 2024 at 10:37 PM
John Travolta in one of his finest movie scenes…
November 25, 2024 at 5:49 PM
The slightly tongue-in-cheek Jack O’Neil scenes in Stargate always make me laugh… #stargate
November 24, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Average fuel costs per year in the UK are around £1,500. If the average hydrogen car usage is 1kg per day at £15 per kg then that equates to more like £5,500 per year…
November 24, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Stats on the web are increasingly hard to verify. This KI piece broadly agrees with UK Defence estimates on troop and ship losses, but the numbers for tanks, planes, and armoured vehicles etc are very different… ukdefencejournal.org.uk/russia-hits-...
November 24, 2024 at 9:07 AM
@georgegreenwood.bsky.social have you stumbled across the MoJ’s attempt at giving people a chance to submit FoI requests… try following the link on their FoI explanation page www.gov.uk/government/o...
Publication scheme
About the Ministry of Justice publication scheme
www.gov.uk
November 23, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Bert Alert…
November 22, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Now the job of attorney general is open again I’m sure Trump will be considering a few of these names as people with a deep understanding of the US legal system…
November 21, 2024 at 6:31 PM
That didn’t last long…
November 21, 2024 at 5:21 PM