I agree. This website has been very useful and encouraging on my language learning journey.

I've often thought cold fizzy drinks or bottles of water on hot days

Technically, no, as in the UK, you can't steal electricity... you can only abstract electricity, which is an offence in its own right. (IANAL)

I'll get my coat.

I was so annoyed to get that email. Never using them again. Going to install a non-smart wireless thermostat, or maybe a HA install if I'm feeling brave.

Not quite a direct answer, but since watching Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, we've enjoyed referring to things in tins/cans as trapped potatoes, trapped beans etc.

It seems to use jawg.io for its base map. Perhaps it's this?

It brings me a lot of joy to contribute to OSM. I haven't written anything other than the occasional script for years, so it feels good to help the community in ways like this instead.

I've sunk so many hours into it. Either "armchair mapping" with OSM and the imagery overlays, or (more fun) wandering with the android Street Complete app to fill in gaps when I'm out and about.

This thread about the most northerly The North sign might be of interest, and possibly even help :)

Oh, and free access to RCR. What a nice surprise!

That's not quite true... just less than half of voting Conservative party members voted for him, preferring instead the steady hand of Liz Truss. Well done there guys.

*cries

Update: They're coming! They're coming! Hurrah!

Not sure what sort of duck we saw on the way into Reading on the K&A, but it gave me a dirty look as we went by!

Oh wow, over £100 lower! Thank you!

I'm keen to learn what the other 20% are satisfactory about.

People seem so friendly here too! (for now at least!)

Maybe he thinks that more of his constituents are pro breathing decent air than pro driving smoggy private vehicles. I'd like to think he's onto something.

BTW, the duck logo is the duck from Sarah & Duck. It's a brilliant show, and I think can be found on iPlayer.

We've named this duck Martin. Poor chap has a bad wing so we give him double feeding of duck kib when we visit.

I was so close, yet so far from that joke! Brilliant job!

Please consider yourself an honorary boater. Please also collect your official !narrowboat golden toilet cassette from this channel's concierge.

It does make our good "home coffee" even better!

To add, we watched James Hoffman's review of good instant coffee and tried the Percol instant. It's certainly good enough for later-in-the-day coffees, but we always start with the good stuff.

Great username btw!

Hi Dave, Thank you again for taking the trouble to create this community.

The two of us and our dog live on the K&A. We've had our boat for a few years, but still feel like newbies!

I half wonder if some of them just whisper "It's like Mad Max out there." as they push you off :p

Very excited for your adventures!

No matter who you pick, insist that they explain the rules of the road canal.

We've had to help holiday boaters who were given the keys and sent on their way without even being told what side of the canal to drive on!

Points to ask:

• What side to generally be on
• Where is it ok to moor
• How to use a lock (including priority and also when to wait for other boaters to turn up)
• What state to leave a lock in
• How fast to go
• When to give way
• Etc. Etc.

A decent hire place should be happy to take the time to talk you through it.

Much of my work us collaborative document creation. I'd love to use LibreOffice but try as I might, I can't work out how to connect it to corporate SharePoint sites etc.

Working with MS Word on anything but trivial documents is miserable. So many bugs and weirdnesses. How is it even possible for Word to let its documents become sour using its own file format!

I say "sour" because the documents are still accessible, so not fully corrupted... but over time, weirdnesses creep in such as tables losing their positioning data, cross-references breaking for no reason etc.

That sounds more of a !ukpersonalfinance question, but I can see why you posted it here. Best of luck.

Hi! Thank you for your message. Fair enough, we'll enjoy Reading on the K&A and save the Thames for another year! :)

Yeap, I'd say Elizabeth line into central too. Piccadilly is fine, but doesn't have A/C and is slower, I think.

Does the 8 hours exclude check-in time? If not, that's not much time to see central! (Even 8 hours is a bit of a whirlwind)

The trees are still plotting my demise.

To add to the list, there's also:

• !greatestgen@lemmy.ml - for The Greatest Generation podcast
• !shittydaystrom@lemmy.ml

Not sure if these will be appreciated, but at least it helps our work to complete the Star Trek Reddit-to-Lemmy story :)

Edit: Can't work out how to add links correctly, sorry!

No specific suggestions, but could you drive most of the way and take the tube one or two stops (or even one of the #ferries). Not great, but it does open up your parking options.

Don't know why I cancelled my subscription!

Take my ko-fi money! Thank you for setting this up!

Not so much what but why. It makes no sense!

Oh that is interesting, thank you! Shall check it out!

Briefly this morning when I woke up my feet were cool. Oh happy memories.

You're right of course :) I guess I spend so much time IRL with traffic, seeing the virtual equivalent doesn't spark joy any more. It's a shame, I used to love city builders.

I'd love a car-free option. Mass transit, bicycles and foot travel only would be a great challenge.

Thank you for setting this up!

Maybe this group can succeed where r/london failed... in explaining why Leicester Square.

I've spent many happy hours playing the original... My only gripe is that it always turned into a traffic management sim. Yes there were other challenges, but traffic was always front and centre. (At least for my cities)

Eeep! OK, we will send all the cold stares we give people who jump queues. Hope that helps!

If this is trimmable into a usable shape for a banner, you are welcome to use this :)