nickhobson25.bsky.social
Self-employed architect, Scottish Government House Condition Surveyor, nature lover, likes doing up old buildings.
Will follow those posting beautiful landscape photos, especially of Scotland 🏴
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If you’re really quiet you could probably leave and no one would notice.
Just shut the door gently as you go…..🤣
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They reference it in the podcast.
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BTW Very good podcast on King Leopold and the Congo
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Bravo riposte 😁
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Pandas - disproving Darwin’s theory of Evolution
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I’m fine - car not so ☹️
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Elaborate please
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The view back looking down Loch Eriboll if your heading East towards Thurso/Tongue is one of the best views in the Country.
Ben Hope, Arkle, Ben Loyal
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Worth a google for the location!
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I’m sure @limefinishes.bsky.social will correct me but I think that’s the old Lime kilns at Ard Neakie on Loch Eriboll?
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Sounds slightly different. I’m mostly looking inside recording the condition, heating system, type of building, etc.
I find it fascinating, fun but sometimes very upsetting.
If your interested this is the published survey from 2023
www.gov.scot/publications...
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It’s a cracking building on a wonderful spot.
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Haaaa! I’m in Bettyhill Tuesday !
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I think so !
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Im one of the surveyors for the ScotGov House Condition Surveys.
(Essentially visual assessments of the housing stock).
My normal patch is Ayrshire and Argyll & Bute but being a former resident of Caithness I always like to return North 😁
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Up there surveying in Wick and Thurso next week 😁
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I think Equinor progressing with the construction of the Rosebank development despite the HC Ruling tells you everything you need to know.
Half the infrastructure is in Shetland already.
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On a positive - a good, sturdy stob/wire fence there
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My concern is the UKs habit of massively overspending on infrastructure projects, which quite often run way past the supposed delivery point and thus render them obsolete by the time they’re actually delivered.
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One to take home to meet your mother 😬
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…..but I’m no politician so not really down to me!
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Don’t throw money at multimillion overseas corporations/governments (SMR tech mostly Chinese)
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For a start I’d be looking at our energy demands.
We’ve some of the worse thermally efficient properties in Europe.
Better insulation = less heating demand.
Secondly, look at tidal, pumped hydro.
Thirdly, force developers to build energy efficient housing (Alex Rowley) been doing good work on this
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Of course there’s a few SMR reactors sitting in Rosyth dockyard, one of which I was Christened on.
UK Polaris fleet.
Given the UKs skill in procurement now!, someone else’s expensive problem later, it’s a no from me.
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You’re right but the point I was making is successive governments have woefully underestimated expenditure on large infrastructure projects (HS2) or “innovative” technology like carbon capture or ferries. Timescales as well
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Thanks for responding BTW!
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I grew up in Caithness with Dounreay.
Remediating works still ongoing there and likely for some time yet, so even with older nuclear power plants like Dounreay and Hunterston the lifecycle costs are enormous.
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www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperi...
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Do you think nuclear power is safe and value for money and do you think we should have one in North Ayrshire?
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Definition of “oppose” would be useful
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Pretty confident it will be “we remain a strong ally to both the US and Israel but will continue to work for a peaceful solution in Gaza and the wider Middle East region etc etc”
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Just curious
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Any response from UKGov yet?
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3) Will the Scottish Government instruct all Scottish public bodies to cease dealing with companies and personnel linked to the US Government, including indirectly such as those owned by the Trump family or Elon Musk until such time as the threat of ethnically cleansing Gaza is withdrawn?
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2) Will the Scottish Government employ sanctions against US personnel involved in the proposed ethnic cleansing of Gaza, including but not limited to the freezing and seizure of assets and companies in Scotland owned by them or their families?
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Surprised he didn’t say Gazan’s could return and work at staff in the hotels, casinos and beachside properties
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Vitamin Sea