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A couple of other peculiar colourful facts about Bristol: * Ex-mayor George Ferguson (mentioned in the article) always wears red trousers, except when Bristol won the European Green Capital 2015 he wore green trousers in celebration. * All licensed taxis in Bristol are blue, specifically Bristol Blue https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_blue_glass
In Greenland they had a system to encode what purpose a building had. For example, if you were in a medical emergency, you would look for a yellow building. > Red buildings signified churches, schools, teachers’ or ministers’ houses. Yellow colours were assigned to hospitals, doctors, and health care personnel. Green was at first the symbol for radio communication and later became the colour of telecommunications. Th…
Only thing keeping the residents from killing themselves on account of living in Bristol
It's not unique, there's quite a few and I like them. Friend of mine I knew in Cheltenham UK managed the same when she moved to Gloucester https://metro.co.uk/2023/06/01/rainbow-road-artist-unveils-l...
Since this post is likely to be a good honeypot: can anybody recommend any good tech meetups here? I run an energy tech company and looking to meet like-minded folk
I really wish they'd do this everywhere. In the town I live in there are a lot of houses and shops that are just exceptionally grim to look at. Everything is dilapidated, rotting, grey and pebbledashed. I can't help but think that, even if it's not fixing the root causes of why everything is shit, it would at least make things a bit less miserable and maybe give people a bit of joy and pride again for a pretty low co…
I wish we would get rid of all the horrible, depressing brutalist architecture that blights London such as the Barbican, South Bank Centre etc.
During the lockdowns the Barbican was a nice area to walk through
There are far worse buildings on the South bank of the Thames, I walk it a lot - the IBK building + ITV studios, the weird brutalist buildings near Blackfriars bridge are pretty ugly (the new '1 blackfriars' is built in the shape of a massive sarcophagus/ coffin from some angles).
There's the weird concrete pub on the others side which is pretty ugly too.
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/photo/coulorful-houses-...
I've just moved back to Bristol (grew up here) and delighted to see this on HN. Since this post is likely to be a good honeypot: can anybody recommend any good tech meetups here? I run an energy tech company and looking to meet like-minded folk
Lots of other meetups for various aspect of tech. It's Bristol Tech Festival this week too. https://techspark.co/tech-festival/
I've just moved back to Bristol (grew up here) and delighted to see this on HN. Since this post is likely to be a good honeypot: can anybody recommend any good tech meetups here? I run an energy tech company and looking to meet like-minded folk
There is also PyData Bristol (https://www.meetup.com/pydata-bristol/)
I visited Devon on my trip to the UK and was really surprised to see palm trees around the coast.
They are called palms in that region but are Cordyline australis from New Zealand where they are called cabbage trees and are everywhere. They do quite well in colder New Zealand climate regions. If you are unlucky to live next door to a mature cabbage tree planted along the neighbours fence, you will spend your life picking up fallen leaves, which cannot be put in our green waste bins, on general refuse, because the…