Squaredy

The new sign on the left was recently put up in my village; but clearly it was not the contractor’s job to remove the now incorrect old sign. As it took the local authority three years to put up the new sign after the roads were altered, maybe by 2029 the old one will be removed? Luckily, not many people actually want or need to visit Newport City Centre.

Well, Starlink finally arrived early Feb; and a few days ago I got a moment to put it on the roof. Pretty simple really. I now have super fast broadband at work. Had to download the app to my phone but the kit was automatically linked to it, so all I had to do was plug it in and choose a name and password. Not going to get the landline transferred for a few weeks - but the indications are it is fast and reliable. Most important it is not weather dependant. Download speed 100mbs which is what it is capped at as I have the cheapest package. Ten out of ten so far.

The police are currently investigating Mandy and separately so are the Financial Conduct Authority.

Cornwall and Pembrokeshire as well.

In principle I totally agree. What they teach at school is such a small aspect of what could be taught. And yes of course parents could work together to educate kids. As long as kids get good English and good numeracy they could then study a million things that will never lead to a GCSE. Of course if they do ever want to do a degree they will need to work towards that at some point. Of course A levels are not the only thing that count towards Uni. My youngest got his first batch of UCAS points when he was eleven due to his guitar playing. Mind you I doubt I will encourage my youngest to go to Uni. Apprenticeship yes, Uni maybe not.

Ah right I see. Mmmmm Not sure I could cope with my own boy all day, never mind his mates as well... Actually it might not be so bad, they would egg each other on.

Well as I say he has a great circle of friends at his current school. And do I think he (and my wife and I) have the commitment and motivation to make a success of home schooling? Maybe not right now. I have a lot of scepticsm about schools, but I think that they can be very good. Just a shame that so much nonsense idealogy has been sucked in by stupid teachers and other senior leaders.

I knew very little about Zarah Sultana. I now feel I am a bit better informed. Calling one of the most successful entrepeneurs to come out of the UK this century currently employing 25,000+ people a parasite says a lot about her. Presumably all people who work hard and do well are parasites. And perhaps those people who get a job in the public sector and then expect endless increments (regardless of performance) or even worse those people who decide it is a mug's game working for a living are the salt of the earth? Or maybe the bitterness she displays towards Ratcliffe is because he is (along with thousands of other wealthy people) the living proof that if you tax wealthy people hard enough they will go. Which is a phenonenom that has been know about for a very long time and yet still some people pretend it doesn't happen.

Yes, the oldest one is now home-schooled. Youngest one we would like out, but he has a great circle of friends there. So for now we are keeping a very close eye on things.

Plus he wanted to distract from all his other woes, and from the rest of what Ratcliffe said which was not exactly a ringing endorsement of government policy.

I have not watched the video referred to above but I can confirm my boys’ school does go on about some very weird stuff and pretend it is normal. Certainly their school is in the grip of some very extreme ideology. Never underestimate how nutty teachers can be.

I used to use a Jappa 700 but it might have been a bit newer than that. Let’s see what it looks like and I can tell you if it is similar.

If I were in your shoes I would try and find out more about their need. Ie size of each prop, how long they are expected to last, will they be in use in all weathers for years, or just for a season and then all dumped, etc, etc, etc. Will these go at the bottom of a dry dock and have many thousands of tons of ship on them and be expected to last for decades? Or on the other hand just be randomly used to haul small pleasure craft out at a little boat club and a couple of years life is more than enough. By the way, when they say redwood, you do appreciate they probably mean pine? Actual redwood would only be used as boat chocks if they specifically had to be really soft.

Is that what you call warm?!?

What a character; such a great commentator, building the suspense; sometimes when nothing is even happening. And who could forget his snooker player impersonations?