Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 24th June, 2026.

24th June, 2026.

OK … we have a hot day ahead of us, today!

Going by the predictions for my area, the one on the BBC’s weather website, we’re looking at highs of 34ºC.

And have a red heat warning going into force at 9am, this morning.

It’s going to be toasty, in other words.

Bottled water is going to be needed, I think.

Avoiding alcohol would be a good idea, too.

Alcoholic Drinks are whats called diuretics: they make you urinate, in other words, and leave you dehydrated.

Ever wonder why drinking too much is known as ‘getting pissed’ in British English?

Now you know.

Lay off the hard stuff in this weather!

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I managed to read this piece, yesterday: one that tells us the UK’s government is planning to consult on turning terrestrial TV.

Or, at least, turn off the digital signal.

That’s … … 

That’s sort of inevitable, given the rise of streaming services.

The article also tells us that there’s plans — possible plans — to introduced more subsidised internet connections, ones that would be needed for internet broadcast TV.

That’s a good thing: I know plenty of people without a ’net connection, who could only afford one if they had financial help.

My issue, right now?

Is much like the flawed Digital ID scheme, from last year.

The scheme — for a mandatory digital ID for job seekers — meant users would need a smart phone for the thing.

In the case of at least one person I know, they would need help to buy said phone, AND set it up.

This seems to have similar issues: I know a few people who could afford a subsidised connection … but couldn’t afford a streaming box, let alone a new TV.

Whether it was smart or otherwise.

Yes: turning off the digital terrestrial TV signal could be inevitable.

But?

People are going To need help buying the kit.

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 24th June, 2018

24th June, 2018.

Yes: it’s a Sunday: one where I’ve actually had something approaching sleep.

Which helps: as it’s a Sunday where I’m up early to get to work for nine.

Fair enough.

But, given the delays on the train, this week?

I’m concerned that today — as the past few Sundays — there’s going to be a bus replacement service … 

As lovely as a bus ride is … ?

I’d rather be on the train.

It is, in these situations?

Quicker … 

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 24-6-2016

That’s … 

You know, I’m sorely tempted to say ‘That’s torn it.’

But those words seem just a little bit too glib, to describe what’s been announced.

So you know?

The UK has voted to leave the EU.

With 51.9% of those who voted — a 72% turnout — voting to leave, and 48.1% voting remain.   Going by the figures?   England and Wales mostly voted Leave, with Scotland, Northern Ireland and London mostly voting Remain.

We have two years to negotiate leaving: under Article 50 of the relevant treaty.

Given the currency’s going berserk as we speak?   And many businesses not yet saying what they’re going to do?   And much of the EU’s governing bodies not yet announcing how they’re going to react?

Those negotiators better be good.

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Prime Minister, David Cameron, has just spoken.

And has announced that he will be standing down as Britain’s PM, and Conservative party leader.   And that a new leader will be chosen, by the time of the Party conference in October.

That new leader will then be put in place as PM: and in the position of Prime Minister, for the rest of this Parliament.   AND in charge of the Leave Negotiations.

That — as much as the Referendum’s result — is unsurprising.

But, speaking personally?   Much as I’m NO Conservative voter, I have to give the PM credit: for taking the BIGGEST political punt of a lifetime.

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As a final thought?

Phew!

As a final thought, I voted remain.   As far as I understand it — from the media coverage of her death — Jo Cox MP, was killed, in part, because she was a Remain campaigner.

I voted Remain, in part, because I felt I would be supporting her killer, in voting Leave.   Although it was a close-run thing.   One or two people who’d commented on Facebook, made comments about those planning to vote Leave, I personally found deeply offensive: and almost had me voting Leave, in sympathy.

But voted Remain, as a way of sticking up two fingers to Jo Cox’s killer.

That was one part.

There’s a few others.   One?   Simply that at least one of my regular commentors — Olga — is a Spanish national living in the UK: and I’d hate to see her being unwelcome, purely because Britain had left the EU.

The other?

My family is bizarre.   But, basically, my step-father — and father of my two sisters, Anna and Ruth, and long since divorced from my mother — has properties in Spain.

Often?   Ruth, Anna and Jude holiday there.

The fact we’ve now decided to leave?   Means my nephews’s holiday in a beautiful part of the world are now — in all probability — far more difficult to arrange.

Has Britain blown it?

Quite probably.

I can only hope we figure SOMETHING out!

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The Daily Teaser — 24-6-2015

You know, I’m grateful to have borrowed the amount of DVDs I’ve borrowed.

Especially after the amount of TV series I’ve lost, in the Great Collapsing External Drive Disaster!

It’s going well, I should point out.

Especially as I’ve managed to source a few box sets, myself.

Right now … ?   Right now, I’ve got HandBrake series four of Torchwood: the flawed but wonderful, Miracle Day.

It’s lined up and stewing, as we speak.

I have to admit, though … The electricity’s slowly draining: not the the point of unaffordability, but it’s draining.

The other thing … ?

Is you don’t quite realise how much of that electricity turns into heat.

Right now … ?   Right now I’ve got a first generation Mac Pro, at full(ish) pelt.

And handily doubling up as a hairdryer … !

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