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Floods in the UK
... the UK will experience severe flooding more frequently as climate change takes hold. The floods have severely disrupted people's lives and will cost the economy millions of pounds – highlighting the foolishness of the chancellor's insistence in only talking about the costs of tackling climate change. The UK government must stop dragging its feet on decarbonising our economy and show global ...
Off to Heathrow for a flight down south
... after some ribs for me and potato skins for Deb, were on the plane which leave pretty much on time, waiting for drinks was a bit like waiting for a bus but inevitably after an hour, two turn up at once, happy holidays. Later that same night...... Not sure what's going on, looks like the chosen few got fed, but we weren't part of that elitist group, ah well, looks like the one AM drinks are on there way, Ooh, and there's food too, and as good as it gets for airline ...
Back home again
So leisurely start to the day with repacking for the journey and a late breakfast. We were picked up on time at 12 and headed for the airport where we checked in with a slight sweat; my case was bang on 23kgs (the limit) Gill's came in at 26.5 kgs but no one said anything , so we didn't either. Good on time flight back with a surprisingly decent meal and free drinks, a novelty in this age. We arrived back at Heathrow on time, long walk in T5 but the ...
Brake issues ...
... spaces by the shop, bought a coffee and sat and waited for the brakes to cool down before driving on.
But it was not long before we were held up in heavy traffic and the brakes seized once more.
There had been an accident and the road was closed in Cowfold, so we limped into the car park and hung around waiting for things to cool down again.
Well, this has been an ongoing issue. I suppose it is better to have brakes that over do it rather than ...
Exeter and South
... the screen. I said that all but one of the human carvings had no heads.
Then he told us that Exeter was bombed in WW II and the bomb destroyed the chapel on the opposite side of the quire, and the screen had suffered the effects of the blast. The decision to leave the screen as it was, was based upon the desire to let ...
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