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They ask if you have a licence with a Yes / No choice. They don't ask for the licence number, which I'd be surprised if anyone in these islands could recall. Rather charmingly, the…

I hear this a lot. I've got quite a leaky 400+ year old Welsh farmhouse (long and thin, heat-sucking 4ft deep stone walls) and I'm one of those who installed last year with the gra…

There is a gate, with a warning. That stops most of the delivery drivers. Tourists, not so much.

I live on an old farm. I'm connected to a neighbour by a track that is narrow, has a steep drop with no barrier and a ford at the bottom. After decent rain, the ford is more like a…

Well, my attempt at a humorous aside didn't land. To be strictly serious we are talking about block parameters in ruby which contain the values yielded to it which, in an enumerati…

I can see the appeal, but I offer: 1. thickly cut doorstops of wholegrain crusty bread 2. apply very mature crunchy cheddar 3. cut banana, not mushed, is layered on top 4. a blanke…

sigh, I once encountered a PFY junior who named all variables some variation on `nx`, so `n1`, `n2`, `n99` because they 'were all just numbers'.

I work in an environment which has dozens of products, very significant complexity and legislative needs. Cucumber works very well for us because we use it for specifying outcomes.…

I see you are not British nor, according to your bio, do you live in Britain. I'm not sure how 'our' applies to you.

In what way? From mini skirts to punk rock to gay liberation to extinction rebellion to pro- and anti-brexit protests, we seem to be comfortable with challenge. Citation required.

Well, it would be a lot harder to sack president Boris /s. I defer to the historian Niall Ferguson who said (I paraphrase) that purpose of monarchy is to protect the people from it…

> The dominant paradigm is "if it is not permitted it is forbidden". Oh gosh. It’s the exact opposite. The a principle of Common Law is ‘everything which is not forbidden is allowe…

I live in a smallholding. When the Milford Haven gas transit pipeline was being layed just by the corner of my field they found a henge. Yep, a stone circle, or the remains of it b…

I love (and donate to) mailcow, it's an amazing piece of work which makes it simple to get up and running and to maintain a email stack. The problems you end up with is dealing wit…

I live in a reasonably rural part of the UK in an old farmhouse with historic public rights of way criss-crossing the land around here. One day google decided that a footpath throu…

The Async gem and Ruby 3+ is an incredible piece of work. If you need to coordinate 3rd party services, it's the way to go in ruby and it just reads beautifully.

I went to an agreed petrol station, they'd authorised spend there. From memory, I think I just told them my name and that was all I needed to do: fill up, thank the staff, drive of…

I had my wallet nicked in Padstow on the last day of a trip there and was just about take the 3.5 hour drive home. Problem was I didn't have enough fuel to make it. My CC providers…

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Research I grant you, but for treatment, quality is very unevenly distributed. The Welsh NHS is appalling enough that I've considered relocating to England for this reason alone.

> If I remember right, didn't the Queen refuse to give her assent to table this bill to the Parliament? The Queen, acting upon the advice of her government , refused to grant her c…

Thank you for taking the time to do that and I know we are drifting massively off-topic. The blogs posts fail the PROMPT test for me but the Zahraa, 2001 paper is much more interes…

I don't believe anything without evidence. It seems like a reasonable piece of tidying up that settles the legal juristiction of vessels in those waters but I look forward to seein…

> Now scotland has independent tax raising powers, the border with england for sea resources was carefully restruck to favour england The maritime border used to be a straight east…