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I'm right handed so I'd prefer the oven moved to the right and the larger counter top between sink and Stove but overall yeah, that's a neat design

Gotcha - that makes sense

Where’s the Kitchen gone Rich??

I love that dedication to detail. There was house in the village I used to live in which was designed and orientated so the owners could sit up in bed, look out of the window and see the church where they were married.

Of course Falling Water is the most extreme example of this...

Well finally a bit of a break for Ireland in the WC draw - but poor Wales, tribulations continue.

Ireland have Scotland, Uruguay and Portugal and if we win the group (by no means a certainty but doable), we avoid NZ, SA and France to the final. Then it's likely Tonga in the last 16, Argentina in ...

The front reception room is not going to be usable as a bedroom unless you can move the front door to the side of the building, so I'm going to rule that out.

Changing the rear reception room to a second bedroom will be a bit compromised by the need for a passage through to the kitchen but would ...

Stranger Things

Yeah we’ve waited far too long for this conclusion but just finished episode 4 and can say…

Brilliant… just fuckin’ brilliant

There may be a little too much comic relief in this series and it’s in danger of straying in into Harry Potter’s storyline but it doesn’t matter, it’s ...

That’s Christmas sorted…

Dec 4th is an interesting night.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRdTkURG/

Full Moon coincides with closest approach and also MeteorShower.

Bet it’s cloudy…

Guardian has 3 of it's top 5 UK Politics headlines as "Oh... look how terrible the OBR are" - It smacks of deflection to me.

If she didn't lie, then there's no reason to "Draw a Line under it" (Quote Starmer) and move onto the “big, bold long-term plan” (tm Donald Trump)

Ireland’s new “Pause before you post” campaign. Very clever and unfortunately necessary in today’s social media obsessed world…

I Like Me on Netflix

Documentary from Colin Hanks about the life of John Candy.

It won’t surprise you to know that there wasn’t a single negative thing anyone could think of about him. He seems to have been exactly what we would have hoped he’d be.

What didn’t know was he got his start in ...

Senna 1991 McLaren MP4/6 for sale…

https://rmsothebys.com/auctions/as25/lo ... aren-mp46/


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I had the same thought process when I was commuting from Northampton to Slough 3 or 4 times per week. I would do Jct 2 to Jct 10 of the M 40 and used to try to use that part of the Journey to "Make up time", given it's very light on traffic etc.

Then I crunched the numbers and realised the 36 or ...

I have 2 nephews in Australia who are eligible for assistance under the NDIS programme. This is not means tested for a very basic and, I think sound principle that 2 people with the same challenges in life are viewed as identical by the state.

Their value to the state is not determined by how much ...

Agreed - I have black DMR V12’s (your recommendation Rich IIRC) but silver pins to match the other silver accents on my black bike.

Looks Ace to me

If they're still in power...

Whatever way you slice it, I sacrifice the same amount of my salary as before but my pension pot grows by a smaller amount than before. The difference goes to the exchequer etc.

GG. wrote: Wed Nov 26, 2025 1:29 pm Taxing pensions

People who are sacrificing some of their available spending now so that in future, they'll be less of a burden on the state... Yeah, let's tax those fuckers!!

Any word on Pension Tax Free Lump sums on retirement.

Doesn't impact me as the Tories will have reversed it long before I retire but I was talking to a work colleague yesterday who's 18 months off retirement and somewhat depending on the lump sum for his retirement plans