(0804) WP composition tools playing up badly right now … makes it more difficult. Nice time of day, morning … all the international copy comes through that’s going to, plus friends by message … a rewarding time. Then onto our next phase. (0823)
10. Moo corner
9. Slovenia
8. Don’t usually get to run Bobbie
… as she does mainly clips but here’s one:
7. Sense the anger
6. Toodles with a cartoon or two
I am sending two comic strips from a hundred years ago. Unfortunately each cartoonist must have been tracking me. Here is the girlie one:
6. Where is the second comic strip ?
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JH: Think Toodles fell asleep, DAD.
Too busy unpacking that lot?
Regarding last week’s heatwave, here’s how it played out..
Britain paid 15 times normal wholesale prices for emergency European electricity.
Emergency imports cost an estimated £11 million in a single evening.
Four of Britain’s ten nuclear reactors were offline during the crisis.
Solar panel efficiency degraded in extreme heat, compounding supply problems.
Multiple gas-fired power plants were down for routine maintenance.
Local councils have ordered residents to remove air conditioning units.
The grid operator underestimated demand by up to three gigawatts.
Britain has blocked new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea despite the crisis.
We didn’t have enough electricity so we were forced to buy 2.3 gigawatts of it from places like the Netherlands. We payed because clueless ideologues who couldn’t run a whelk stall are at the helm of this nation. Can’t go on.
Phew! 😮💨
The second cartoon is now in James’ court. I discovered that clicking send helps a lot.😉
In response to Steve: I wonder if the royals and the landed gentry had air conditioning during the ‘We’re having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave’?
How tragic for those who succumbed to a preventable death and/or sickness, not to mention the rest of you experiencing extreme discomfort.
My air went out recently during one of our hottest and most humid days. The maintenance men from the company we use came post haste. I was so grateful.
I do have ceiling fans as well as personal oscillators, just in case. I understand it is rare over there to experience such extreme heat, but even so how nice to have a fan to pull out of a closet. Well, who wants a fan taking up storage space to use so seldomly?
How awful the other tier allowed (caused) such misery. Also, to actually demand removal of air conditioning units is shocking. Those people may have had terrible health issues.
Solar power as a dependable power source in cloudy, overcast England? That is a head scratchy one!
So sorry for the misery and tragedy there during the heat wave..