It's just awful. Although I grew up with a well & water heated by an Agamatic, I've taken the availability of hot water & lavatories for granted, & I feel so much for the difficulties of coping with tiny babies & small children, & bigger children off school...

I met a woman yesterday whose restaurant had been shut for 3 days (poss 4, today) right at the peak going-out season; I hope people like that, carers, mothers with babies, hospitals & surgeries are given some compensation quickly. Vulnerable people still weren't getting water delivered by SE Water 🙁

Well, we're very lucky as we got our water back this morning (never has a shower felt so wonderful!), but there were still lots of unlucky people - 16,000 this morning - who hadn't been reconnected. The CEO hasn't left his burrow to explain, apologize & try to fix things quicker; a complete bounder.

Very beautiful indeed, and thank you both. There's nothing like a bit of rioting Rococo to cheer one up...🙂

Or this:

bsky.app/profile/mari...

This one is wonderful... although having her standing in the corner of the sitting room might be slightly on the surreal side of intensely creepy. And what might she do when switched off?

NB I wouldn't try eating it - it's probably made of toughened pterodactyl hide.

I think that, like small children, if she can't see anyone, then technically she isn't there...

That is certainly an argument in favour of HVIII over the Trumpeter, although I shouldn't have cared to be a female at the former's court. Well, nor at the latter's, either, but presumably I might in that case have had more security for my head...

I feel we’ve pointed much energy at trying to decide whether Trump is Caligula or Nero, whereas I think he is probably Idi Amin. Though with much worse tailoring.

...and much oranger... Possibly with an element of Genghis Khan (without the charm), and a strong thread of Henry VIII (without the pieces of cod).

That's very hard to believe, so I won't. 🙂