Ben Wilde

Traditional Boat Builder who just became a novice crofter and house builder. I run @Archipelagofolk too. he/him

[Ben Wilde @ben___wilde]

@DSM888 Just re read your first tweet and realised these photos have come to you by chance! I'm so sure they are @GalGael

[Ben Wilde @ben___wilde]

@DSM888 Weird, buy definitely true! We took to a flower show as a demo thing when I'd only just started using it and a bit of timber flew off a nearly hit a passer by. We stopped using it after that...

[Ben Wilde @ben___wilde]

@sweenyness @Celebs4indy Yeah I get that for all the houses currently around you. But new builds, that are only viable with burners? Or need them for back up? Of so that's just bad building and the building regs should be encouraging better building.

[Ben Wilde @ben___wilde]

@sweenyness @Celebs4indy It's also much much cheaper to heat our house with heatpump and solar than it would be to buy bags of wood all the time. I get if you're cutting your own peats, or doing your own forestry it can be cheap, but again that's pretty rare.

[Ben Wilde @ben___wilde]

@sweenyness @Celebs4indy I mean we have 1000 litre hot water tank. We can do 2 baths before we run out of hot water. Cooking we're on induction so just have a wee gas hob in a cupboard in case

[Ben Wilde @ben___wilde]

@sweenyness @Celebs4indy Seems like some really bad politics to drop this change to building regs. But aside from some really unusual cases like Eigg where the grid cannot support heat pumps there is really no need for wood stoves.

[Ben Wilde @ben___wilde]

@sweenyness @Celebs4indy Our new build house doesn't have a wood stove on Mull. We get long power cuts. It loses a degree or 2 over 24 hours. With a bit of thought new houses do not need wood stoves.

[Ben Wilde @ben___wilde]

@paperghost Will never forget it! I lost my glasses, kicked off my face by a crowd surfer and spent the last night in a surreal blur of fire and chaos...

[Ben Wilde @ben___wilde]

@paperghost Oh god I was there. It was amazing

[Ben Wilde @ben___wilde]

@morgporg33 @vesuwius @ZiggyHFX @buzzfeedjenny I mean, we do, but I the sheet with the answers on would just be called the answers I think.

[Ben Wilde @ben___wilde]

@vesuwius @ZiggyHFX @buzzfeedjenny This must be an American thing?

[Ben Wilde @ben___wilde]

@ZiggyHFX @buzzfeedjenny I still haven't figured out why tests have keys?

[Ben Wilde @ben___wilde]

We don't learn language by overt rules, but our syntax does follow and incredibly complicated consistent rule set.

[Ben Wilde @ben___wilde]

This drives the linguist in me a bit crazy. The 'rule' is absolutely there, but it's in the universal grammar, not in the prescriptivist invented rules. There is so much of word order that works like this.

[Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End, etc @JasonKPargin]

The infuriating thing about language is that if you describe this as a "fun little red rubber ball" you're fine but if you call it a "rubber fun red little ball" you sound like you had a stroke, even though there is no official rule about order of adjectives.

[Ben Wilde @ben___wilde]

@BipolarRunner @WingsScotland @jonathanliew Absolutely nothing, but wings suggesting the author is good at maths is very much racist.

[Ben Wilde @ben___wilde]

@WingsScotland @BipolarRunner @jonathanliew Jesus christ that's so incredibly racist

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

Millions across the world have taken to the streets - in Scotland, the UK, USA, in Tel Aviv - and many more countries across the world demanding peace. They are the conscience of our world, I hope they are heard and humanity prevails.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

[Ben Wilde @ben___wilde]

In 2002 tens of thousands marched against the invasion of Iraq. It made no difference in the outcome, but we were right. This feels the same, worse.

I can't get my head around it.

[Ben Wilde @ben___wilde]

I should be at this. We should all be at this. Its inconceivable the suffering happening in Gaza right now.

And completely baffing that almost no government is calling for a ceasefire. I cannot understand it.

I know social media does nothing. But what else can we do?