rosamundi

joined 2 years ago
[–] rosamundi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I like cycling, and my other option, taking public transport, entails having to deal with far too many other people in proximity first thing in the morning, so I found a way that works for me. I get my bag with my work clothes ready the night before, and put my cycling clothes out, so everything is ready when I wake up.

[–] rosamundi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Black coffee and baked eggs with mixed vegetables, done in the pressure cooker. I usually cycle to work and ten miles with nothing but coffee inside me would be bad, so I managed to find something I like, and because I'm in the UK I can leave the eggs out on the counter so when I fall out of bed and into my cycling gear and stumble through to the kitchen for coffee, the eggs are there, the pressure cooker is there, and it's a two minute job to get everything cooking while I make coffee.

[–] rosamundi@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

he’s committed no crimes,

Apart from several offences under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

[–] rosamundi@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Most subway lines were dug after the city they go under was built, and, for example, there's a whole lot of London on top of the London Underground. Very difficult to dig upwards, very expensive to dig downwards. In the above ground sections you'd have to rebuild all the road bridges.

Much easier and cheaper to run the most efficient service possible with a high throughput of trains.

[–] rosamundi@lemmy.world 52 points 4 months ago

The office where I work in central London, UK has bike parking for 300 and only eight vehicle parking spaces. We also have a fitness suite. There's two (male and female) locker rooms with showers, towels provided, a drying room.

At least one of the green building standards doesn't give you the top rating unless you have provision for active travel, institutional investors won't buy your shiny new building unless it's rated "Excellent" or "Platinum", tenants are looking for added extras which encourage their staff to come to the office rather than WFH.

And Westminster Council charges business rates (property tax) on parking spaces.

[–] rosamundi@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

The bike probably has a chain guard and wheel guard.

[–] rosamundi@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Grant Shapps is going to be furious and there's nothing he can do about it. 😁

 

This is a really disturbing story. Baby Elsa is one of three full siblings who were all abandoned shortly after birth in a time span from 2017 to 2023.

[–] rosamundi@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I think the legal problem is how to fine Lime when it’s the end user who ‘litters’ the bike, and how to know whether the name on the payment method matches the end user. I’m sure if councils could legally seize and fine/destroy, they’d be doing it.

And I don't know if Lime have updated the security but it used to be quite easy to override the locking mechanism and ride without paying, you just had to live with the really loud clicking noise the bike made. So if it's been stolen and then dumped, Lime have no comeback against anyone.

[–] rosamundi@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Plans get lost, stuff gets bricked up, there were a number of bombs fell in that area during WWII (http://bombsight.org/?#16/51.5187/-0.1039), it can mean expensive surprises when doing building work.

When they were building the Eurostar tunnels down the road from me they found a load of disused wells that nobody had any idea existed, with unfortunate results.

 

Baby beavers have been born in urban London for the first time in more than 400 years, a conservation project said.

[–] rosamundi@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago

the New World Order, the World Economic Forum, you won't be allowed to leave your neighbourhood because 15 minute cities are coming with guards and checkpoints.

[–] rosamundi@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Why not use oil lamps or candles in wind-proof lanterns? Red glass for rear, clear glass for the front. My grandparents rode bikes back in the days before reliable battery lamps were a thing and that's what they used.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17936539

Genuinely excellent news.

“We are now set to get London’s air to within legal limits by 2025, 184 years earlier than previously projected.”

A hundred and eighty four years.

 

Genuinely excellent news.

“We are now set to get London’s air to within legal limits by 2025, 184 years earlier than previously projected.”

A hundred and eighty four years.

[–] rosamundi@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I use YNAB for budgeting

Plan to Eat for meal planning.

Unfuck your habitat for cleaning.

 

Newham council has managed to find some funds from somewhere to enable them to take over the lease of the market village, although there is a break clause after a year so if it's loss-making they can walk away.

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