The ONA document on how CPIH is weighted by percentages. Food and non alcoholic drink 8.7% Alcohol and tobacco 2.9% Clothing 4.5% Housing and household services 31.4% Furniture and household goods 4.3% Health 2.1% Transport 11.1% Communication 1.9% Recreation and culture 12% Education 2.7% Restaurants and hotels 11% Miscellaneous goods and services 7.5%

If you ever wondered why the claims of inflation going up don't seem to mesh with your lived reality, it's worth looking at how different things are weighted in their calculations.

A lot of people have housing costs of more than 30% of their income, so when rent goes up Inflation doesn't translate.

Sport that's not behind a pay wall.

Stuffed crocheted animals are a good currency.

My dogs. Ask me tomorrow? Still, my dogs. Any given day? My dogs.

Anything that I've achieved.

Gregarious introvert.

Childhood abuse.

It always ends.

Time

Mammal taxonomy.

It's a Wonderful Life.

Whatever's going.

Any from my youth or early adulthood. Ren & Stimpy.

My sense of inadequacy.

They don't really know.

Gregariousness and fear of what people think of me.

Tidiness or lack thereof.

My Labour. I don't have anything else that people want.

Work social 'do'.

Bring a shop-bought coffee into the office every morning when there's a perfectly good coffee machine in the kitchen.

IRA bomb scares.

Veggie breakfast.

About 6:30

There is no smoke without fire

Palantir has no place the UK

Or you could install signal blockers in schools.

Every time I see NaNoWriMo (or in this case NaPoWriMo) I read it to the tune of 'Yah Mo B There' by James Ingram and Michael McDonald.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social (JOBbie) doing 20 minutes of mental gymnastics this morning so he could EVENTUALLY come to the conclusion that the Mandelson scandal is no big deal and that Starmer has done nothing wrong. Which we all knew he would anyway. 🙄

A smashed rear light and a note left under the wiper, "Sorry about your light. PS As a pedestrian, I'm not insured."

Peter Sagan parks his bike on roof of car YouTube video by David Tindale

Where's Peter Sagan when you need him?
youtu.be/yQ6s3KW-Ycc?...

a man covering his face with a brown jacket with the hashtag #thefbis ALT: a man covering his face with a brown jacket with the hashtag #thefbis

Mrs AJ gave the dogs beef mince last night. (They normally have chicken/turkey mince.) Those were the most rank farts I have ever smelled.