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7. Sackerson’s trying to start
… an inter-county civil war … right, two can play at that, lad.
https://theylaughedatnoah.blogspot.com/2025/01/new-year-smiles.html
Don’t know if you’ve ever seen the Brummie Army … frightening spectacle … chanting Ee Ya Beorma, it’s a gas gas gas (sung to the tune of an old Stones number from 1968).
6. DAD splutters into print at 928
5. Nudging useless heatpumps
A Net Zero ‘nudge unit’ that used scare tactics during the Covid pandemic has received a £100,000 contract from the Government to encourage the public to take up heat pumps. The Telegraph has the story.
The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) has received a £100,000 contract from the Government as Ministers aim to deliver an extra 300,000 home upgrades this year.
Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, plans to scrap noise restrictions on heat pumps and lift the limit on their size in a push to expand their use.
4. Steve and war room
5. Mini brain plans to scrap noise restrictions? As I inherited a heat pump here I can tell you that they ARE noisy. The neighbours complained if it was on in the afternoon/early evening when they returned home from work and wanted, not unreasonably, to sit out in their gardens. The noise was intrusive. Got on our nerves too so when it packed up we didn’t bother to have it repaired. It didn’t make a lot of difference to the lecky bill as it never heated the water beyond 18-20 degrees and there was no noticeable change to room temperatures. All in all it was just an annoyance.
Them are trying any which way to drive us round the bend – noise pollution is just one more.
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JH: Yes, we have some of the latter too.