Network Rail (who own and maintain the track/infrastructure) are state run.
It was privatised for about 5 years, it was a disaster, and it was brought back in house.
Trains are run by TOCs, though these are being gradually coming back to the state too.

The honest answer is, we have a fuckton of track, much of which has been there since victorian times.
Couple that with diesel-electric trains that run at 125mph already, a lot of track that doesn’t get that much use, and the electrification number is low.

We’re slowly getting there.
New lines are electric from the start, and electrification projects are rolling out.
It can be a pain in the ass though (GWML, for example. We had to order bi-mode trains to continue down to the westcountry, and while the electric part was completed.)

Plus the issue that any track that’s busy enough to prioritise electrification on is going to be more complex because of the impact any downtime causes on a busy route.

I’m just waiting for a third python to arrive with minor problematic differences.

My phone always ran the site too slowly to swipe, I have no idea which direction was which.

Originally, council housing was supposed to be available for everyone.
A socially funded, reasonably priced, decent accommodation for anyone.
With the added bonus for the council that they have properties vulnerable people could be housed in at cost.

And there are still legacy tenants from those days happily living in their council places.

R2B was brought in, with the stated idea of giving long-term renters the opportunity to buy at a discount.
A leg up onto owning and running their own house.
Unfortunately with the way it was implemented, it ended up gutting the supply of council houses, until we reach today.
Where only the most vulnerable have a sniff of a chance of being allocated a council house.

Somebody should make a microsite with this graphic that updates every time there is an election.

Maybe “Welsh Waste” or “Welsh Sewage” would be a better name for them.

I lost my glasses for 3 weeks, and was freaking out because I needed to drive somewhere urgently.

Yeah, they were in the car. Along with the emergency pair I always forget about :|

That’s my interpretation. Plus a little “hon hon, baguettes pay in pain flute”
Also, in the grander scheme, it’s not that much. If schneider are smart, they’ll say something like “how about if we donate $75k to local human feeding charities?”

People apparently rub them with IPA.

I need to have a try of this, as I regularly burn through 2032s.

This is why I did a 180 on getting hives.

Honey is nice, but driving out the bumbles around here would be criminal.

20 years, for a more serious answer.

I found it frustrating at school when my history teacher finished at Afghanistan, with no discussion on how it related to the current situation.

I’ll just re-share mine from last time.
I tend to use the Horizontal Stack. On a mobile device, I just get one stack per line.
And on bigger screens, I get multiple stacks to make use of space.

General “Going out” page:

Internet speedtest page:

I’ll write a quick gist for anyone coming along:

One gas boiler in the house, each room has a smart TRV.
PIR sensor to set room presence, each window has an opening mag sensor. HASS has a general presence sensor set.

Each room’s temperature is targeted based on presence and window status:
For each room, if person is home at all, and has been in the room for 5 mins, and the window is closed, TRV to 19, boiler on if <19.
If the room presence is negative and the window is closed, drop TRV target to 16.
If the window is open, drop the TRV target to 7.

There is a little more detail that that in the article, but that’s the basics.

Every Welsh pub tonight: “Did you know that the worlds largest penis is in Wales?”

excited banhammering noises

Catwoman: What’s a hroom?

Awesome work, thankyou for taking the time to do this.

I too love a metal USB stick for the keychain, and my old DTSE9 could do with a refresh!

They can add it to the pile along with IPV6.

And giving exemptions for ones with less than a certain number of employees.

Big bus.
We know they’re paying you off with day savers, don’t deny it!