Yes but if you don’t cause a bunch of poor people conflict and pain how will your wife know that you love her? /s

I mean of course, the Tories have clearly taken up the Republican playbook of making things a little better in the first year or two and if things are going south they’ll waste all the budget on useless shit, pass a bunch of unsustainable but populist policies and underfund police and social programs to such an extent that things like this happen.

Then you can easily blame all of the countries ills on the side in power when the next election rolls around.

Tom seems like one of the most genuine people on the internet, he fact checks the crap out of everything (going out of his way to issue corrections when he is wrong - which just never happens) and produced exceptionally high quality and interesting content every damn week.

I’m slightly sad he’s giving up now only because I only discovered his channel a year or so ago and I’m not going to have new things to show my kids as they grow into an age of watching more educational content.

I can only wish him the best of luck with whatever comes next.

(Also, he deserves an MBE or something…)

Honestly their walk back of the net zero has made me never want to vote for them again.

The planet is fucked, at this point nothing else matters, we aren’t doing anything about it because Sunak is cosied up to fossil fuels and is too busy flying his private jet about.

Already had my 3 year old melt down at me three times this morning:

• Once for not finding her the right Peppa Pig sock
• Once for not taking her to the shop (we were out of coffee and milk)
• Once for not buying her the right juice from said shop

I’m now hiding in the bedroom whilst drinking my coffee in peace.

It’s gonna be a long day…

Our first family holiday to Wales.

• Didn’t realise the drive would take 6 hours
• Oldest kid is somewhat on the spectrum, we stupidly didn’t talk about it before we left
• Kid decided he didn’t like it the moment we pull up to sign in and wanted to go home
• We tried to stick it out but he just complained about everything
• 2 days in youngest kid starts doing the same
• The wife starts feeling sick too, turns out eldest was actually sick from nursery
• Wife gets sicker than she’s ever been, can’t get out of bed
• Everything is horribly expensive (it was some knock off center parcs thing) which we didn’t really budget for
• It rains the whole time
• Everyone is in bed the most of the days, have maybe 1 nice afternoon
• No one sleeps through the night, spend most of the time lying on the floor hard floor
• Decide to come home after 4 days even though we paid for 7

Massive waste of time, money and energy, going somewhere shorter and cheaper next time!

The research was done by the Asphalt Industry Alliance (https://www.asphaltuk.org) who complain that there is a 1.30bn shortfall in the carriageway budget.

They have a point - potholes are worse than they’ve ever been - but one has to wonder if they would bump up the numbers to try and get more funding 🤔

Then why did you post it?!

Fêtes!

We had the school one yesterday and are going to the local town one today, hopefully the weather holds out and the things that are there aren’t shit 🤞