Thursday 9th July 2026

[refitman]

Morning all.

[refitman]

Got the morning off work, waiting for a BT engineer (my internet has gone wonky). No chance of a lie in - the booking is for 8am-1pm.

At least my house is a little cooler than the office would be, only 24C at the moment.

[refitman]

My internet is faster than dialup again!

[Frog222]

My internet is faster than dialup again!

My new fibre download is 27 Mbs, is that good ?

[Frog222]

Up very late, I listened back to the 6AM beginning of Today for a quick fix, then OFF !

So, Al Carns had a big splash by Charlie Parker on Sunday evening's Times, on how he just HAD to see Burnham's 'PLAN' before supporting him, in which case he'd graciously accept a cabinet position .

That was big of him https://archive.ph/nKzuH

Al Carns: I can’t back Andy Burnham until I see his plan
The former armed forces minister says he is loyal to the country and will join the cabinet if he agrees with the PM in waiting’s ‘vision’
Al Carns said Andy Burnham should surround himself with people who have military experience

IIRC he's spent some £35k of his expenses on bigging himself up with videos and other PR .

Gotta move FAST

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It'd be interesting to know if AC approved of that article, or if it's just journalistic shitstirring, but the fact that he kept his possible challenge open until last night IS very interesting ???

[Frog222]

FIRST LOL OF THE DAY GOES TO THE g lIVEBLOG

In a story for the i, Kitty Donaldson quotes a Labour figure as saying a survey of the parliamentary Labour party concluded that Carns had only had “three backers, and one is him”.

( He got a very mixed reception in the Times comments, above )

[refitman]

My internet is faster than dialup again!

My new fibre download is 27 Mbs, is that good ?

Mine should be 80Mbs down, but I was only getting 1.5, due to a broken wire

[Frog222]

May we introduce you to the Islamic State of Japan ?



Temp down a whole degree to .... 37 !

[Frog222]

" Communism has been a disaster for thousands of years"

( one minute16 !)

[refitman]

It's very funny that the right are getting their knickers in a twist about 'who funds' Binface.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

My new fibre download is 27 Mbs, is that good ?

I'm on BT's cheapo dole scrounger special and that's fixed at 36 Mbps which is more than I need, even when purloining 4K films. So maybe your question should be is it good enough for what I need it for? A 4K stream needs about 20 Mbps so unless you're streaming multiple Ultra HD videos simultaneously then the answer is yes, it is.

[Frog222]

My new fibre download is 27 Mbs, is that good ?

I'm on BT's cheapo dole scrounger special and that's fixed at 36 Mbps which is more than I need, even when purloining 4K films. So maybe your question should be is it good enough for what I need it for? A 4K stream needs about 20 Mbps so unless you're streaming multiple Ultra HD videos simultaneously then the answer is yes, it is.

An idle question , but at least. I learnt something.

The copper wires were all I needed !

[Sky'sGoneOut]

It peaked at 29.1° in here earlier this evening and is now very slowly starting to cool down, though it's still in the 28's.

It doesn't feel as bad as it has previously though, presumably because the humidity is lower. Plus after a random chat with a lady who works at the counter in Argos when I was last there I'd prepared a few frozen bottles of water. The idea being you place your bottle of ice immediately behind your fan so it draws in the cold air and blasts it at you.

Once it cools down I'm going to have to go back and thank her because it really does make a difference.

Anyway, Allez les Bleus!

[Frog222]

I was walking barefoot into the dark kitchen

Switched on the light

A bloody great hornet inches from my feet !

Very sneaky as Im keeping everything shut, apart from upstairs at night,for cooling

[Sky'sGoneOut]

The other night I went bed and without even looking picked up the book I'd been reading* and nearly shat myself. Clinging to its cover was an evil looking arachnid which I afterwards identified as a male noble false widow spider. God knows where it came from but it went out the window pretty sharpish. Apparently they can give a pretty nasty bite. Worse than a hornet sting though? I dunno. From experience one single bumblebee sting was worse than 12 wasp stings (after I inadvertently stood on their nest), and a hornet's just a big wasp isn't it?

* https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-ca ... 1836430025