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Semi retired Living the Dream 🚫no crypto experts or bitcoin traders thank you and no 🚫financial donations🚫 No I don’t give gift cards either

#TBT - roughly 42 years ago (give or take a day or so) I was off out on my first great #ColdWar exercise - the daddy of them all, Ex Lionheart '84 - just a few short days after first arriving in Germany out of 2 years trade training as an Army Apprentice. What an introduction to life in Germany...

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I didn’t especially care for Dolly Parton’s music (though 9 to 5 is a banger) but she was an incredible person. Her literacy scheme gave out millions of books to those that otherwise would never own a book, she played it big part in the development of a Covid vaccine. She was the inverse of Trump

England water companies want dynamic pricing. Charge more for drinking water, cleaning, showering, flushing toilet during drought. Health epidemics would follow. They lose over a trillion litres a year to leaks; paid dividends, neglected investment. Putting profits before people archive.ph/9oSCf

How water companies could charge you more during drought

Rule changes being proposed by the regulator could allow a new regime of dynamic pricing creating higher bills when water is scarce

inews.co.uk

Just had a fawlty towers moment in an Italian restaurant 🙄🫣 tables on either side of us filled with Argentinian folk.. don’t mention the war… or discuss football 🙄🫣