curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Can it be someone’s job to gag Bundi when the Ref tells him to “shut up” on the third occasion 000
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The E type has Jaguar’s glorious straight 6 XK engine, but Citroën’s financial state meant the DS got stuck with an engine from the mid-30s. So leave the E type as it is, but give the DS the modern electric powertrain it deserves, in fact, someone must have already converted some of them. 020
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I live close to one of Heathrow's departure routes. Generally fine (they were here before I was) but every now and again something goes wrong, last time it was a 10pm fire alarm at T4, and then there's 9 late long haul flights departing between 2 and 3am. The one thing that reliably ruin my sleep. 000
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Enjoyed Elementary (Sherlock Holmes does Manhattan), above average 'popcorn TV'. Started to get repetitive in, then they introduced a new character and when they let the audience in on his secret past I could visualise how the entire season would play out. Stopped watching and never went back. 010
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Have to agree. Started it more out of a sense of completion than hope, but was pleasantly surprised. Looking forward to season 2 later this month. Also enjoyed Dexter: Original Sin. Disappointed it didn't get a second season, but also wasn't surprised. 100
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I was 'lucky' last time. A big leak turned out to be a large piece of flashing that fell off the parapet wall (bloody London roof) and slid into the gully. New roofer was to reattach and make in good for an entirely acceptable amount of cash, but I start looking at the ceiling every time it rains. 010
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I don't have your "electrical pain"... but the roof on my Victorian flat makes me feel the same. Stupid design from when labour was cheap (bloody 'London roof') so it seems to require a lot, but much like your "no fire' goal, I like my rain on the outside. 110
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Had no idea what a migraine felt like, assumed a really bad headache. Then one afternoon I had issues with my vision. No pain but felt very odd and had gaps in my vision. One trip (on foot, didn’t feel safe in the car) to the opticians later and I discovered I knew very little about migraines 010
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Agreed, and now my interest has been piqued. 010
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Presumably those who apply are self selecting (they approach C4 rather than C4 approaching them), have access to money/finance, and are selected based on the property not the people, so it may be difficult to get a balance based on those criteria, but now I'm curious why so few same sex couples 111
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026You probably did, this derelict 100-foot Victorian water tower in Kennington, South London, was bought by a same sex couple and featured on the show (I recall liking the building). 240
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Largest airliner in 1962 (when the terminal opened) was the Boeing 707, a transcontinental jet carrying about 190 passengers. Today JFK gets Airbus A380s carrying over 520 passengers. Once TWA went bankrupt the terminal was just too small for modern aircraft and airlines. Great that it was saved! 110
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026My Dad, who was never much of a music fan, bought a Ladysmith Black Mambazo album having heard them on Graceland. I know Simon got some stick for working in SA at the time, but I learnt more the country because of Graceland and LSBM. 010
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Everyone has a favourite, but I feel 'Halt and catch fire' is at the wrong end of the list (and I've just noticed 'The OA' isn't far behind, which disappoints me). But it's a top 100 list, and people are engaged, which is the whole point. Trebles, and clicks, all round! 010
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026One of my moments of the 6Ns this year was his chase down of Marcus Smith, when Ireland already put the game to bed, and it was glorious. And he didn’t look like he was running out of steam, he looked like a man who was loving the hunt. 120
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There are few things in life as overrated as a good f**k, and few things in life as underrated as a good s**t. 100
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I once offered to totaly rewire the network rack in the office. Had been on the list of crappy jobs the team had been avoiding for 18 months. Job coincided with a book I'd preordered becoming available on Audible. Spent the entire day rewiring & listeneing. Got so much kudos, best day at work ever 110
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The E-3s are all decades old, the related KC-135s are even older, many had to be cannibalised to keep them flying, so I wouldn’t be surprised if parts of that E-3 ended up on another airframe, I’m sure there’s some PR value in that helping label it as only “damaged”. 000
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026No, wasn't being used at the time, although it does get used by more cargo bikes than I expected (it’s near a junior school and playground) which is encouraging. Would love to know how the app determines if the parking is acceptable. 130
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I live next to a pub and opposite a cargo bike bay. Watched two chaps on the way to the pub try to leave bikes neatly at the end of bike bay, but the app refused that space, they had to leave them on the footpath to end the hire. Suspect the app didn’t like that the bike bay looked like a car space. 150
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Footage. Use to refer to the number of feet of film run through a camera. Now a generic term for any captured moving images. 140
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Starting turning the heating A/C system off as well as the radio in the hope they wouldn’t adjust them, mostly worked. Then on one occasion I got my car back and discover they’d unplugged the dash-cam (not subtly, left the cables dangling at face level). Might be innocuous… but now I wonder. 000
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Over £ Half a Million for 22 hours work, and that's just one of the companies, Washington Speakers Bureau, on his register of interests. Thanks for the link, still seems incredible he can get 5x the basic MP's salary for just 22 hours work with an external company. 000
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026That lies in the uncanny valley of sounding plausible yet being unbelievable at the same time. No MP can be working for their constituents when they earn 3,500% more from sources other than their MP’s salary. Can I ask where the number came from? 100
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Wilson is my MP, and I find it interesting that Tania Mathias, the Tory MP we briefly had between Cable‘s two terms, went on to be selected for Teressa May’s seat in the 2024 election, losing to another Lib Dem (a pattern for her). She was also pretty active, but cursed with a very pro EU seat 000
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026In hindsight Sunak was such an “interesting“ choice for Tory leader, I wonder if he’d have been elected in normal times? Starmer seems competent/safe (not a complement) but also like he just didn’t enjoy the job. I wonder if 3 years was just too long for him to stay on the back bench. 100
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Re there being room, yes, you’re right. I suspect he’s had enough (unlike Sunak, I assumed he’d be off to the highest paying tech bro ASAP), but I always wonder if being a barrister is a good base for being a politician, two professions that work very differently. Curious where he ends up. 100
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026In terms of former UK PMs I expect/hope he’ll be more Major than Blair (Or any of the last 5). 000
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026From new PM with a 172 seat majority to standing down as an MP in just over 2 years. Good barrister, decent human being, but not a great politician. Shame there’s no room for people like this in politics. 100
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026“Pissed“ is perhaps strong, she saw two EU citizens with very different rights. Like a lot of Europeans (and an embarrassingly large number of GB residents) she wasn’t aware of Anglo Irish history. She held onto her German citizenship, which ironically now gives her kids an advantage. 010
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I wasn’t sure myself, had to check before I posted, but the recommendation seems to be (for repairs on listed properties) you don’t need consent, but if you think you might be changing something you can check with us. Feels like one of those ”we know it’s not perfect but it seems to work” solutions 000
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Not sure if that’s a reference to this story from a few weeks ago, but in this case the planning issue wasn’t the roof repairs, it was all the other work he wanted done at the same time. www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/home/70... Like for like repairs generally don’t need LA consent. Generally.henleystandard.co.ukI told you my roof would fall down - Bird Place owner criticises local authorityTHE owner of an historic Henley home has criticised planning chiefs after its roof collapsed despite warning of the danger. 120
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Ireland too. Had a German friend who was pissed that I could vote in UK general elections, but she could only vote in local elections (and as she worked for the council she assisted in running polling centres). 140
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026As the Irish economist David McWilliams likes to say, "the DUP never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity". Brexit was suppose to cement their position in the UK. It did the exact opposite. 130
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Due a compounding, and unexpected set of circumstances, I found myself in Ireland this week, and then Galway this afternoon. I did have a pint in Fitzgerald’s on Quay Street, but the highlight was finally visting the #Connacht home ground. Just a shame there wasn’t actually a game on. 000
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026While I too support the ULEZ, I was in a position (almost entirely due to post COVID working from home policies) that I could sell my EURO5 diesel car (which got 60+ mpg) and try using public transport. Turns out, I don’t need to own a car, which ULEZ helped prove, but I’m not everyone. 001
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026To bastardise an old expression about being right; ”I mean technically it is afloat“ ”I think you’ll find that’s the best sort of afloat” 010
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Oddly low detail report. I'm guessing it's a burst water main rather than torrential downpour, but the central area is quite big so surprising that it's completely closed (even to buses and coaches). I wonder if the tunnels to the central area are flooded, that would shutdown the whole area. 030
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026No. And as of 5 minutes ago I have to admit to having spent more over the last 7 days on books you recommend than books you wrote. If you're ever in Teddington, I owe you a beer. 110
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026A gift my father gave me many years ago was a first, and only, edition of “Lost Lives”, a book that provided a biography of each of the 3,637 lives lost during “the troubles”. It makes for a sobering read that reminds you of the of cost before the GFA. Authors declined to allow further print runs. 120
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Not a football fan… but even I got this reference. 020
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026As someone living in the UK those do seem like the big two (plus India Pakistan Bangladesh). As someone my family jokingly refer to as a “west Brit” who use to admire what Ben-Gurion hoped to achieve, those were really the big two. 010
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026@jonnelledge.bsky.social As a “foreigner” living in London I rather enjoyed this chapter of “A History of the World in 47 Borders”. My only critique is I wanted more detail, but I’ve lived some of that history, and you had 46 other stories to fit in, so can’t argue you made the wrong choice. 👍👍 100
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026They talked about replacing the 40+ year old class 455 trains on my SW London line for 10 years, delayed the introduction of the new class 701 for almost 5 years… but now the transition is complete it’s wonderful. Air Conditioned suburban trains is a real “working in central London force multiplier” 000
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I live near an excellent play area in SW London. Since school finished a few weeks ago a group of mid-teens spend several hours there each evening, they are loud and 90%of them are well behaved loud, but the 10% have now set two fires in 7 days. Repair crew have better response times than the Met 010
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I read that wrong, I thought you loved the idea of Desmond, until he turned up and then you remembered you didn’t. Once I realised what you meant I agreed, one of my favorite Lost characters. 110
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Honestly, if someone suggests something is rotten in the BBC and you can say; “yeah, sorry about that, should have been thrown out weeks ago” and show them that picture, it might defuse things. 000
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I used to love my car but home working reduced my dependence on it, expanded ULEZ forced me to get rid of it. Didn’t replace it and have become a public transport convert but still limit my bike riding to safe routes. Wish we had more proper bike routes. Watched too much ‘not just bikes‘ on YouTube 010
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Still annoyed by this decision of theirs… www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comKensington and Chelsea council criticised for scrapping cycle laneSeparated bike lane in Conservative-run borough to be removed after seven weeks 110
curiouspaddy.bsky.social @curiouspaddy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Wasn’t previously aware of that. Liked it. Not wishing to out Herzog each other, but have you seen the scene from the documentary filmed in LA with Mark Kermode where Herzog gets shot? 120
