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Why are morning rituals so important to me?
Mornings are my own, a place for me to soothe into the rest of the day and enjoy one or two simple luxuries, like good cappuccino.
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USA Day 11 part 1: I95 to Beatty via a bored cop and a brothel
I like driving the I95, but not when you get stopped by gun-toting cops. We stopped at the Alien centre for respite…
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When asked a question I feel compelled to answer fully & truthfully. This seems to annoy some people.
If asked a question I like to give a full and truthful answer, which can take some time – and which some people find annoying. Why is that?
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District heating: how do you retrofit central heating to tower blocks?
Providing a wet central heating system to seven 18-storey tower blocks and four 6-10 storey blocks requires a great deal of planning. It would be all too easy for something to go wrong.
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Imagine a garden on the 10th floor of a tower block. Not possible surely..?!
Council tenants living in tower blocks with gardens? Surely not I here you gasp…
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Is human bird flu finally with us?
Keeping hens cooped up in order to provide ‘cheap’ eggs was always likely to backfire on us, like so many other intensive farming practices.