Andrew Boa
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Ex-academic, Chemist 🧪⚗️, Unemployed. Then like my dreams, they fade and die. 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 + 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 Posts about everything and nothing.
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Mitotomato or tomatochondrion?
Had a thought and checked. Your list says chlorine was used on April 22nd 1915, which was the 1St battle of Ypres. This was also the first gas attack against the British troops and I am sure Owen would be aware that reports of the attack would be well known amongst the British public from newspapers
I looked down that list of chemicals and know or have a confident guess that they're colourless if pure, or likely to be pale yellow ...apart from chlorine which is green. I've seen chlorine gas! So it's rather a coincidence that Owen uses green instead of "yellow sea" unless he was being specific.
Most in that list react with moisture to form HCl (hydrochloric acid) which is colourless. Chlorine gas, however, is yellow-green (appearance is concentration dependent), and that colour is mentioned in the poem. The infogram rules out phosgene and diphosgene.....
I was always under the impression that it was chlorine gas in 'Dulce et Decorum est'.

"As under a green sea, I saw him drowning".
I refer to going by bus as 'taking in the stretch limousine'.
"The cancellations are heavily weighted toward states that President Donald J. Trump lost in the 2024 election; only about seven affect projects in states he won."
From Google maps scrolling it seems to be more likely to be a solar irrigation water pumping station associated with an off grid farm of some sort (alfalfa appears to be an important crop in Nevada).
Makes sense given the location, but wondered what the central feature was. Looked almost like a gas flare....but not.
What's the third pic of?
Essential clarification, as I was thinking 🍟......
We always get crappy signal strength/quality when the weather comes directly from the south. We're on the east side of the Pennines though. I note from the weather maps that Lancashire has a north north east wind at the moment. Maybe that's the thing affecting your signal?
"When he was prime minister, Johnson issued his version of the ministerial code. It included the very rules he has now been found to have repeatedly breached."

Says it all.
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Who benefits from the abolition of stamp duty land tax?

The first answer: people buying very expensive homes. Average saving for someone buying a £10m+ home is £1.7m. Average saving for someone buying a £250k-£500k home is £5k.
Or there's a malfunction in the dashboard light or the sensor.....
Shepherds be happy in Southampton.
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This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
5 kilos of apple purée prepped from windfalls today. I love to eat it with breakfast cereals/ porridge but hate the tedium of peeling, coring, cutting off manky bits in equal and opposite measure. The bottling is so much easier though since I bought a jam funnel.
I've read three I think, but as library books and a long time ago. So I can't recall which the other two were!
That's too sensible.
The number of times I've broken a nail trying prise open an almost intact pistachio shell.....
We also have a big book problem (actually lack of shelves problem) exacerbated with all my books brought home from work when I was 'retired'. Even before that most shelves were double stacked. The rest are piled on the floor.
Is that 'Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafon atop that pile front right? I just started re-reading that.