Somebody didn't get the memo: OSB is not a sensible wall finish.

"What if we built a private water distribution system, that took priority over regular people's supply, then charged for access during wildfires?"

Aha, so that's how we win the ex-pat gammons over to rejoining the EU..

At this point, what's left to cut?!

BIzzare, no idea why it didn't populate. Fixed, anyway, thanks :)

Everyone has done a cracking job of the questions, so all I'll add is:

ISPs:

Most ISPs are nationwide.
Almost all fixed lines have no data caps.
If you're in a standard area, go with a provider that costs a little more, but have good customer service, and know their arse from their elbow.

Zen are good imo. https://zen.co.uk/
If you already know your address, their site will check what you can get, and how much it will be.

If you get a friend to refer you, you also get a £25 love2shop voucher.

Fixed line contracts are usually for 12-18 months.
You can get one month ones (give me a shout if you want them pointing out), but you may be better off with a 5G dongle for short term accommodation.

Further detail:

Most ISPs use the same physical wires/fibres owned by OpenReach, or an altnet, which go from your house to the nearest exchange.

You normally cannot speak to the wire/fibre provider directly, any maintenance request has to come from your ISP.
So if there is ever a problem, you're relying on the ISP doing the legwork. So good CS is critical, imho.

You pay the provider, they pay the cable owner to get it to them, then provide the backhaul.

There are some area based exceptions, like single-provider fibre.
And there is also Virgin. But I wouldn't go with Virgin.

I'm impressed that the hospital was able to put time into a proper investigation.

I think that public paths through farms are great.
I'm on the walking side of things rather than the farming side, but I know that the cows are often keen to hang around places they know people are passing.

Plus I bet it has advantages for keeping rural crime down.

Gas power stations absolutely cha-ching-ing it tomorrow.

We should build more power stations like this, it's clear they pay for themselves in bullion alone!

I like https://agilebuddy.uk/latest/agile
You can also see that yesterday, it almost hit the £1 cap.

The prices are set at a certain time, and they then publish the prices up to 2300 the following day.

So if you see a plunge price for the next day, you can set the 3 bar heater on a timer, and help shed the load 🫠

C&D sounds like a good way to scare someone who was wasn't previously a Barrister, Bencher, Director of Public Prosecutions, and didn't have a knighthood for services to law and criminal justice.

Purely a guess, but maybe a combination of cold, dim, and the wind dropping off.
Then as somebody else mentioned, when the estimates came in, gas stations absolutely rinsing it.

Things happen, and we'll gradually get better as storage improves.

Too late for me, unfortunately.

#JAM

It's more of a re-hash.

"You're out there somewhere, Beeston banana baron. And I'll find you."

The biggest one was probably a combo of having an anemometer, and heat/humidity sensors in each room.

When it's cold outside, the top floor of the house (loft conversion) loses more heat. But it loses significantly more heat when it's cold, and the wind is blowing parallel to the floor joists.

I realised that because they're not perfectly sealed (old house), enough air pressure means that the floor void can easily hit external temperatures, meaning the rooms have cold on twice as many sides.

I will (eventually) get some suitable insulation in them to stop this.

Well done!

I too love the fact that HASS is a common platform for everything.
It makes duct taping lots of different devices together into automation so much easier.

Adrian Binnmann will be straight over as soon as you let that nice billionaire run the country.