Tag: water
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£4,803.40 a Year for Water?
When we moved house, Thames Water failed to set us up an account correctly, and the hacky workaround they came up with claims that we spent our first 11 hours in the Chicory House perhaps pouring three tonnes of water into an ankle-depth 5×10 metre swimming pool.
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F-Day plus 3
It's only been three days since we had to evacuate our rapidly-flooding house. Here's some horror pics.
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Flood
My house is under water.
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Delivery Songs
In the UK, ice cream vans are perhaps the only delivery service with their own jingle. Turkey and India are WAY ahead of us in this regard, and I've got a few ideas about how we fix that...
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A couple of hours into our ferry journey, we just got our first glimpse of the island of Tobago, where we'll be staying for the next few days.
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Across the sea, a rugged island begins to emerge over the horizon, through distant clouds.
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Just visited the Logos Hope, an ocean-going, volunteer-staffed floating book fair (run by a Christian charity, but it's not-TOO-religiousy inside, if that's not your jam) that's coincidentally docked for a fortnight right next door to my hotel on Trinidad!
What a strange concept. Fun diversion though.
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White and blue passenger ship docked alongside a building whose roof reads 'Welcome to Port of Spain'.
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Geohashing expedition 2024-11-23 52 -8
My mother and I's second attempt at a geohashing expedition in Ireland didn't go so well, being blocked by flooding that washed-out the roads between us and the hashpoint, so we did some geocaching and visited a museum instead.
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Pyjama Party Water Fight
There comes a point where you've run out of new lockdown activity ideas, and you just start combining random pairs of activities you've already done.
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Who'd have thought that my onboarding fortnight at @WooCommerce / @Automattic would conclude with a very literal "on-boarding". Hang five! 🏄🏼♂️
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Water Science
Dan and the kids participate in some citizen science, testing the water quality in the Oxford Canal.
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Alka-Seltzer added to spherical water drop in microgravity
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This is just...wooooah. Proper "dude, my hands are huge" grade moment, for me, when I watched the bubbles form in the droplet of water. I had an idea about what would happen, and I was partially right, but by the time we were onto the third run-through of this … -
Drowning cow saved by 'mermaid' on 200-mile swim
A drowning cow was rescued from a river by a passing "mermaid" on a 200-mile swim of the Thames.
Lindsey Cole splashed into the river in a wetsuit, tail and hat at Lechlade, Gloucestershire, on Friday. She is raising awareness of the environmental effects of single-use plastic.
As she passed through Oxfordshire on Sunday, she … -
Devon - the trip we'll never forget
Dan, Ruth, JTA, and Annabel take a holiday in Devon. And for better or worse, it becomes a trip that they'll never forget.
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Cosmo - Building A Watercooled PC (Part 1)
Mostly-irrationally, Dan decides that it's time to build a new computer, and sets out to make a souped-up, liquid-cooled monster of a machine. This is the first part of that story.
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Oxford Under Water
Parts of Oxford have flooded, making it difficult for Dan to cycle to work. Difficult... but not impossible! Wellies on, Dan sets out into the disaster zone.