I'm saving gas by having a broken boiler. It doesn't seem to be working out much cheaper though. £80 for a plumber to tell me he doesn't know what's wrong with it, £300 fixed price repair from the manufacturer, having to fill the bath using the kettle to wash off two muddy toddlers. It all adds up. The most annoying thing is that it has a tank of water on the back of the boiler that it's happy to heat up but it just doesn't want to let us have any of it.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
My daughter @WonkyWomble says her lovely hubby is planning to use her and her hot flushes as a 'heat storage facility' for the winter .... maybe that should be in RTBC?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
On the subject of disruptive protests I thought this blog was very good.
It may seem trivial but at a time when we are all being asked to make
personal sacrifices to reduce our impacts, I can’t help but think of the
extra carbon that drifts up into the atmosphere every time cars are
brought to a standstill. It’s a small point but it’s also an open goal.
It invites ridicule and it plays into the hands of those who seek to
resist change.
I struggle to see how a handful of people routinely disrupting the
target audience is going to help. Rather, as we have seen, it will allow
climate sceptics and a gleeful media to paint the protestors as
extremists. Here is a group, they will say, that can muster only a tiny
number of supporters and so is forced into extreme measures.
It's hard to see how anyone could win a 'hearts and minds' type campaign in the face of a barrage of climate change denying media though.
Prince Charles is sympathetic to the protests today though. He can't understand why everyone doesn't just convert their Aston Martins to run on biofuel, and if he can give up eating quail and salmon a couple of times a week surely everyone else can too. He didn't mention the petition that was handed to the palace this weekend asking them to consider rewilding some of the crown estates, and he didn't mention if the tax payer stumped up for his solar panels and heat pumps on his various residences.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I'm not an out and out pacifist who would never use violence, (I would use it in self defence) but I'm not convinced @punkdoc .... playing devil's advocate here, would it be appropriate for the far right to use violence against perceived 'swamping by immigrants' and changes to the established culture and way of life of an area?
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I think the difference is, in your example the immigrants are not being violent. In 60's London, The Jews met right wing violence, with violence of their own.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Yes, I remember ... it's a hard one but my instinct is that while personal self defence or action to defend someone who is actually being attacked is fine, I could not and would not initiate an attack e.g. in retribution.
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It's hard to see how anyone could win a 'hearts and minds' type campaign in the face of a barrage of climate change denying media though.
Prince Charles is sympathetic to the protests today though. He can't understand why everyone doesn't just convert their Aston Martins to run on biofuel, and if he can give up eating quail and salmon a couple of times a week surely everyone else can too. He didn't mention the petition that was handed to the palace this weekend asking them to consider rewilding some of the crown estates, and he didn't mention if the tax payer stumped up for his solar panels and heat pumps on his various residences.
It is based on a true story, where a group of Jews in London fight back against the rise in far right groups [ very similar to today ]
In a democratic society, is it appropriate to use violence in this situation?
I would argue it was.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In 60's London, The Jews met right wing violence, with violence of their own.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border