Possibly part of the national telegraph/telephone network. Some of the canals would have provided a reasonably straight and easily accessible route between major towns and cities. There is or was a pole between the two vertically stacked arches of a bridge on the Shroppie I think.

And a welfare safety net encourages people to try new jobs or set up businesses, knowing there's something there to catch you if it goes wrong.

Very atmospheric.

A kestrel flew to our house and a death followed... the pigeon it was hunting 😀.

She's achieved nothing. The removal of the two-child cap and rise in minimum wage will be negated by freezing of tax and NI thresholds. Capping the amount you can put into cash ISAs to encourage stocks negated by 2% hike in income tax on unearned income (which was taxed when I earned it).

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The BBC’s own “impartiality briefing” for freelancers included not doing anything to annoy the DM. So - not impartial! Also not great for freedom of speech.

This rings a bell. I seem to remember that when some of the canals were bought out by various railway companies they ran some of the signalling telegraphy along them. I can't see that the canal companies would be the number of wires carried on a post like that.

I could do with one of those. Our central heating is on the blink. 🥶