Thread 40 Starmer: Prettig Kerstfeest, Nollaig Shona, Hyvää Joulua, Nadolig Llawen ,圣诞快乐, God Jul, Feliz Navidad, Bouan Noué, Nollaig Chridheil.

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Merry Christmas 🎄🎅🎶

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I like the idea of snow tax. Here’s mine.

No snow overnight. My kids are disappointed. Absolutely treacherous on the pavements though.

No new snow and very little here anyway, though the roof opposite still has some from Friday which has not melted fully.

We had a light covering overnight. Not enough to be fun, enough to be a nuisance.

See also the rise in tactical voting in the left in all age groups. The rise in reform in that article is less interesting than the huge leap in the don’t knows.

The left wing parties might be behind the times, but the left wing voters have figured out how to mobilise themselves much more effectively.

Mumsnet analysis found that overall sentiment for Farage was negative (average minus 0.25), but a “persistent minority” were positive about him, citing his “relatability, clear communication, perceived authenticity, political success and consistency”.

So much to unpick in just this one sentence from that article.

Thing is, I could agree with all of that - but I still can’t abide the man and would never vote for him.

Thinking about my lunch, I’ll also be making my own mayonnaise - which is very easy to do if you have a stick blender. This also has the advantage of keeping the carbs very low.

This is the recipe I use:

https://www.seriouseats.com/two-minute-mayonnaise

The ingredients (if you don’t want to read the article) are:

• 1 large egg
• 1 tablespoon (15 ml) lemon juice (from 1/2 a lemon)
• 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
• 1 medium clove garlic, minced
• 1 cup (240 ml) vegetable or canola oil I use avocado oil
• Kosher salt which just means sea salt or coarse salt

This will make plenty of mayo and will keep in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.

Snow tax from me.

Depending on your data sets, populations are quite responsive to the concepts of fluid dynamics (which is used to design safety exits for public spaces and buildings). Applying the Law of Large Numbers to that, you can get some illuminating interactions.

Younger voters tend to be more energetic and therefore less predictable, older voters less so, however a lot depends on the forces being applied and more critically the vectors they make in the population.

Apparently you can then talk about attractors and wave functions; but I'd fallen asleep by then.

Just frost here

Love that random mayo recipe BIWI 😅Might actually give it a try.

I might too. Probably much nicer than store bought @BIWI !

No snow here but a hard frost. Intend to walk a dog this afternoon but I’ll see how the ice goes. Very, very cold.

Snowy dog tax. Very unusual to have snow here.

Sorry - wrong thread to post the mayo stuff, but if it’s useful, you’re welcome

I'm quoting myself to apologise to those out gritting last evening and night. Twice. The temperature fell to -12C so a very hard frost on top of a heavy snowfall. Another snow photo as well.

Snow tax up my road ... startlingly blue sky - 5th in a row now. Will 2026 exceed 2025s sunshine record ?

It's not the wrong thread at all. Recipes are legal tender for thread tax purposes.

More snow overnight and it's also frozen over. Can't provide snow tax as it's too slippery to go outside. Lots of schools shut and very few buses out and about.

I've never made my own mayonnaise before - but I'll try that receipe - thanks @BIWI 😁

Nerr snerr, here. The temperature is just creeping up to zero. The bonus of the biting wind is that the pavements are drying in patches, so I managed to take DS2 out on the bus without either of us landing on our arses. The downside is that it made my eyeballs hurt.

Not sure if here is a thread on this, but as an aside, it's fascinating how much effort the police put into this, when they couldn't even track down my lawnmower despite having footage of it being loaded into a van with registration (a) clearly visible and (b) reported by many other residents.

Only recently I wrote that the post war peace dividend meant that public knowledge of uniforms and ranks is non existent (whereas my DM and her DB could spot regiment and rank at 100 paces. Doubtless helped by the fact that DGF and his DB (killed in action) served and wore uniforms).

(There are YouTube tutorials on how to read medals etc)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c17x92nzgyzo

Talking of age as we were, I wasn't altogether surprised by the age of the people who were cyber bullying Brigitte Macron.

The judge said the eight men and two women

Which is an almost perfect statistical split ....

This was taken a few minutes walk from here by a neighbour ...

I'm not really a dog person, but love foxes.

Beautiful. They must be so cold.