Alex Batchelor

[Alex Batchelor @alexbatchelor]

@britishmuseum tickets not received for Bayeux Tapestry today (have checked email, junk folders etc) - can see the booking in my account and have confirmation email - what should I do?

[Alex Batchelor @alexbatchelor]

@tomfgoodwin @shaneparrish @rorysutherland We should be asking Rory’s daughter how she did it using TikTok - a perfect social media campaign that has dramatically increased Rory’s fame and reach 😀

[Monica Harding MP @monicabeharding]

I have written to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, urging him to meet with myself and local campaigners to discuss the need for a pharmacy in Thames Ditton.

The Pharmaceutical Services Regulation Committee (PSRC) acknowledged the significant support from residents for a pharmacy in Thames Ditton, yet still chose to refuse the recent application.

This decision does not reflect the needs of our community. My priority is to make timely access to healthcare as straightforward as possible for my constituents.

The absence of local pharmacy provision makes this unnecessarily difficult. I will continue to press for better access to pharmacy services so that my constituents in Esher and Walton can get the care and medicines they need close to home.

#ThamesDitton #EsherandWalton #localpharmacies

[Alex Batchelor @alexbatchelor]

5-20 minutes for the update it says - the most delusionally optimistic forecast since Liz Truss (currently 42 minutes since it started). Thanks @Microsoft

[Alex Batchelor @alexbatchelor]

@vfsglobalcare please help. You have lost a passport in the UK and just need to be able to talk to someone. Visa was granted, passport sent, DX failed delivery and returned the passport to you. Really need to get passport back. Passport urgently needed for other travel.

[Alex Batchelor @alexbatchelor]

@shaneparrish Fogo de Chao in Jardins is good too. The table of salads is a work of art.

[Alex Batchelor @alexbatchelor]

@shaneparrish A Figueira - lovely restaurant with a beautiful fig tree. https://t.co/VOly9AGJ6h

[Alex Batchelor @alexbatchelor]

@s8mb And one in Vienna inside the four brick gas holders built in the 19th century

[Alex Batchelor @alexbatchelor]

@mkraju @lewis_goodall It’s a “tenet” of international law not a “tenant” 😀 - not sure if that’s AI doing a bad transcription or a senator wanting to sound smart…. (and failing)

[Alex Batchelor @alexbatchelor]

@Herring1967 Lovely post. Wait until you get to Chatham Dockyard! One for another two day trip.

[Alex Batchelor @alexbatchelor]

@davetrott @PolemicTMM FIFO First In First Out and LIFO Last In First Out are both accounting/operational principles for stock management. Imagine a warehouse - do I just send out the first one that came in (usual with perishables) or the one closest the door (usual with things that don’t decay).

[Alex Batchelor @alexbatchelor]

@Laconic_doc They could apply to study at somewhere like UCT (Cape Town) https://t.co/GHXXxCBi6e or Australia or Canada/US. Northern Hemisphere timings very tight - but Southern Hemisphere would start in Late Jan early Feb. (My daughter studied at UCT and loved it).

[Alex Batchelor @alexbatchelor]

@davetrott The best thing about this was that neither of them could drive (for medical reasons). Designed by a non-driver and tested on an elderly non-driver - and still one of the most intuitive interfaces (and used out of the box without instructions). 😀

[Alex Batchelor @alexbatchelor]

@davetrott The main designer of the TomTom back in 2003 tested everything on his father - and if he couldn’t use it then it wasn’t ready. Had the strangest adoption curve - was used by lots of people who didn’t yet have mobile phones….

[Elmbridge BC @ElmbridgeBC]

#ElmbridgeMuseum launched their #ThamesDitton Foundry exhibition at the Civic Centre yesterday with Jane Ritchie, the granddaughter of the foundry’s former Foreman Chaser. The exhibition marks the foundry's 150th anniversary. It is also available online https://t.co/y6VGcJTvzu

[Alex Batchelor @alexbatchelor]

Excellent thread. There have also been protections on postal voting for at least 20 years where the Royal Mail can identify who the names of those receiving mail at an address and cross reference those with the electoral roll.

[Alex Batchelor @alexbatchelor]

Totally agree - they should be featuring Green Party councillors and Residents’ Association councillors 16x and 5x more often than anyone from the Reform Party….
Imagine the outrage if they excluded the Conservatives from discussions as the third party of Local Government…

[Chris Rennard 🔶💙🇺🇦 @LordRennard]

It is time for the @BBC to change its stance on promoting Reform and Richard Tice at the expense of @LibDems. Reform won virtually 0 seats, whilst Lib Dems won more seats than the Conservatives. Time we saw less of Reform on the news and Question Time etc. #LocalElection2024

[Alex Batchelor @alexbatchelor]

@Swannyg66 Slightly alarmed I appear to be the only person so far who thought your description was comedy genius 😀

[Alex Batchelor @alexbatchelor]

@politic_animal Thanks for another great trip - enabled - and very nearly thwarted 😀 - by the same technology. Amazing how it gives vicarious pleasure to so many (including me!)