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Morning, Eddie! Now that/s serious blogging, logging on at 6:23am on a sunday morning! Why don't you come and join us later on the beach (Day One), as there's going to be chocolate cake, jelly & icecream, and a fair amount of alcohol....
...the odd thing is that I don't remember putting my alarm clock back one hour last night, yet it was correct this morning. That must have been some party or a very strong drink!
That'll be fun then,
Half our Hotel guests DID forget which caused chaos :-(
Now there are so many clocks to adjust. I've just thought of around 30 but sure there will be more. Warming cabinets, Microwaves, Central heating, DVD Recorder, Radio alarms, Car, Cuckoo clock, Mantlepeice, timers for lights, and I've missed out loads !
Get them done then Jonnie, otherwise you'll miss out on the Party. See you at the Beach.
ps the sun's shining in October too!
H***y B*y 2 U FF!
It took me so long to change all the clocks that I wasted all of that extra hour!
Mary
Thanks Valp!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY dear Fearless!
Wasn't it nice of Eddie to drop in at the beach. And to remind us all this morning about our clocks. He's all heart, that man.
Would love to have joined the party last night, but my head ached a lot after taking all that medicine to cure my cold. Also Dr H's pamphlet has a lot of pages which take a long time to read, although I liked the diagrams. And all this thread swapping is quite time consuming too. Glad to see Patricia's friendly after all (or should that read "drunk"); but can anyone give me any tips as to how best to navigate around without dropping any stitches? I feel like you're all working on a new Bayeux tapestry here...
Happy Birthday again, FF. Did you get some nice pressies?
During the extra hour now available on the beach, why not give this a go. It's kinda spooky... and amazingly accurate
Chinese Horoscope - 2006, The year of the Dog
Follow the instructions - do not cheat or it doesn't work
Takes only 3 minutes
This will freak you out.
This game has a funny/creepy outcome
Do not read ahead, just do it.
1st. Get pen and paper
2nd. When choosing names, make sure they are real people that you actually know
3rd. Go with your first instincts !!!!! Very important for good results.
4th. Scroll down one line at the time don't read ahead otherwise you will spoil the fun.
1. On a blank sheet of paper, write numbers 1 through 11 in a column on the left.
2. Beside the numbers 1 & 2, write down any 2 numbers you want. For instance, do you have a favorite number?
3. Beside the numbers 3 & 7, write down the names of two members of the opposite sex.
Caution: do not look ahead or it will not turn out properly
4. Write anyone's name (like friends or family...) next to 4, 5, & 6
Don't cheat or you'll be upset that you did
5. Write down four song titles in 8, 9, 10, & 11
6. Finally, make a wish
Are you ready?
Below, is the key to the game – scroll down
1. The number of people you must tell about this game is found in space 2
2. The person in space 3 is the one you love
3. The person you like but your relationship cannot work is in space 7
4. You care most about the person you put in space 4
5. The person you name in number 5 is the one who knows you very well
6. The person you named in 6 is the your lucky star
7. The song in 8 is the song that matches the person in number 3
8. The title in 9 is the song for the person in 7
9. The 10th space is the song that tells you most about your mind
10. And 11 is the song telling how YOU feel about life
11. Number 1 shows your lucky number
Oh Piper, I kind of wish I hadn't done that, it's too spooky. Off to the beach for a run to work off the spooky feeling...
...did I hear Paddy say that Manveen had edited BH this morning? Is that why she was not at the beach? (And Lissa doing WtW)?
Happy birthday Fearless!
I'll pop by the beach for a bit but I'm off to a housewarming party soon.
:)
Five tips for a woman....
1. It is  important that a man helps you around the house and has a job
2. It is important that a man makes you laugh
3. It is  important to find a man you can count on and doesn't lie to you
4. It  is important that a man loves you and spoils you
5. It is important that these four men don't know each other.
Well, it is Sunday...
My friend Smith climbed to the top of Mt. Sinai to get close enough to talk to God.
Looking up, he asked "God, what does a million years mean to you?"
The Lord replied, "One minute."
Smith asked, "And what does a million dollars mean to you?"
The Lord replied, "One penny."
Smith asked," Can I have a penny?"
The Lord replied, "In a minute."
Lol Piper! You've got plenty of those up your sleeve eh?
Ah, Bless.
So, dear Eddie, you DO care about us after all.
In the gloom of a late October Sunday, my heart melts.
I’m changing my clocks for video cameras, thanks to your advice E.
P.S. What are you on tomorrow?
Strap-line not showing
But Lissa's name said clearly.
S N A F U
Visible strap-lines
A thing of the past: now we
Have sleek underwear
btw my internal clock all muddled up, as indeed some of my external clocks. Why are infernal clocks so difficult to change?
When I was a lass (etc; cont p 94)
Hope you had a good birthday, FF. Night-night, all (yawn)
Well always something to cheer us up and muse over Piper :-)
Just watched The Royle Family -- Did anyone else catch it ? Made by Granada for the Beeb, and a one off special after (I think) 7 years. Very well done but somehow left me a bit depressed. Probably as it doesn't seem like the last episode was 7 years ago.
Sue Johnstone is fab though.
Torchwood cued and waiting to roll :-)
Hope my fellow froggers are raring to go for a meaty 6PM special tomorrow.
And finally, has everyone congratulated Whisht on his photographic skills over at Flickr ? Some real beuties and nice to have some descriptive narratives.
Antigua is fabulous and it really brought it all back, but my fave is this one from Norf Lunden
Night all x
and and finally finally,
Is Whisht just being a tad cynical :-)
I saw Big Sister on the beach and gave her a quick wave from the distance, but both there and here in October the world seems to have gone v. quiet.
WAKE UP EVERYBODY!
Well I can see this blog's buzzing.
This morning the news seems to be all about - 'yet again' climate change.
The way it's been represented on 'Today' and ´óÏó´«Ã½ Breakfast' would make you think that Sir Nicholas Sterns report has some new, shattering evidence. Was it not a few weeks back that some of us loaded climate models in our computers and came up with the same answers.
Perhaps I've missed what it's all about as 'Will and Grace' on Channel 4 seemed the only escape !
I'm sure you can explain it all Eddie.
Morning Jonnie,
yep, I notice that. It is getting to the stage where the only thing we talk about is the weather, Oh hang on, were English, that's all we ever spoke about anyway! The problem (in my humble opinion) is that we are in danger of trivialising a very serious topic by over exposure. We are constantly bombarded with apparently contradictory "facts". The only way that we are going to be able to change the amount of waste and carbon we pump into the environment is through collective, worldwide regulation and lets face it, that's NEVER going to happen!
I wish I had an solution, I just keep plugging away at my own behavior and hope that in some way it helps.
Boy, what a depressing post to start the week with. Sorry all. I will keep it light on the beach. Promise :o)
jonnie,
I've been "concerned" on this issue for years.
Consumerism (such as cheap air flights, chelsea tractors) has gone so far, people are not going to like the medicine.
It was a good point made on BH yesterday, that in revaluation, double glazing increases the property value hence the council tax bill, whereas it should act to decrease the bill as an incentive. This somewhat ham-fisted (if not limp-wristed) way authorities are starting to make changes to "encourage" us to change our ways do not help.
Deepthought:
Yes, that point on BH was well made, I thought. Surely, to be 'joined up', a reduction should be given to every property which takes on energy efficiency measures? That would be a real encouragement not only to double glaze but to go for solar panels and the like.
Trouble is, if you live in a listed property/conservation area, the planners are not keen to allow d.glazing, s.panels, wind turbines or anything else. Which is a bit of a double whammy.
Time for a big summit to sort out the anomalies?
^^ Absolutely, OnTheLedge
And while we're at it, let's stick with GMT all year so we have equal hours of daylight before and after noon.
OntheLedge (27)
My Kiwi pal tells me that the NZ government gives an unconditional 50% grant towards ANY energy saving/renewable energy measures you use in your house.
None of this bonkers bias against anything but windfarms...
chrissie the trekkie (28),
If we stayed on GMT all year, and people did not change their habits, energy use would soar (due to need for lights in the evening). If we changed our behaviour so that mid-day really was the middle of our waking day, i.e. get up at 4am, in bed by 8pm, that would be a practical solution.
To really save energy we should actually be running 2 or even 3 hours in advance during the summer, since people do not get up at dawn, more like 7am, which is perhaps 2 hours after dawn in June/July.
If we switched to CET (Central European Time), we would save energy. As for the arguements about dark mornings etc, well, why not change the time school starts in winter?
Deep T and OTL,
Could I prevail upon you to add "overpopulation" to the agenda.
We've got the South East of England threatened with flooding yet we're planning to build umpteen thousand more houses. With their "hard surfaces" they will increase the speed of water run-off and add to the flood risk.
We also seem to think that we need more people to run the "caring services" and other not too well rewarded jobs. Instead of making the pay a reasonable proposition we prefer to make use of the services of people who are prepared to immigrate and work for the wages offered, thus adding to the accommodation difficulties.
In Nature, when a population ougrows its resources there is a famine, or plague or mass violence to restore the balance. "We" are trying to avoid all of these but are not addressing the concept of limiting population increase.
I ask myself what the world population would have been but for the various episodes of unpleasantness during the 20th century. I then refuse to answer. I don't like to contemplate the matter for too long.
I expect not to be a witness when the excrement contacts the revolving air-circulating device; but I have concerns for you youngsters.
Much food for thought, Deepthought.
C'mon you guys - I thought we were friends! I can't trust anyone who will try to make forgoe my Saturday lie-in: I look forward to it all week. Get up at 4 and go to bed at 8??? Deep, my brain would never work - it only warms up in the early afternoon!!!
Sheesh!
thats rediculous
M Thuselah (31) Couldn't agree more.
"War, Famine and Disease" Mother Nature, Planet Earth, call it what you will, always prevails.
This little World of ours is extremely sick and "tinkering" at energy saving, trading and re-sourcing is going to prove as useful as doing the square-root-of-sweet-sod-all. Which effectively, is just what we are doing.
Mankind is faced with a truly massive problem requiring massive world-wide unified action affecting every single area of our everyday lives. Everything we need to live our so-called "civilised" lives is at risk. It's that true and, unfortunately that all-encompassing.
Mmm, what what animals will dominate after us...?
Appy, hope we're still friends, & Sam, I was just pointing out that the proposal to say on GMT all the time, and the need to save energy had a rather dramatic down side! Most of my frog pointed out how to save energy without changing our current habits. I think you skimmed it a little too quickly.
OntheLedge (27), I know, I have the same problem. And I don't own the freehold, either, and they are also reactionary to such matters.
M. Thuselah (31), I totally agree about SE England, very well put, another of my hobby horses. Thames Gateway - why build new cities in the first places to go under water as the sea levels rise and SE England sinks (which it is, an after effect of the last ice age)?
Of course we are Deep (36), I was only teasing, having nothing practical to add to all of the useful debate that has already been had. But I really do love Saturday morning sleep :)
Piper (35), It's hard to tell from the fossil record, but I would doubt that any animal has dominated the earth anything like humans. I put that rider in because the oldest evidence of human activity is, oh, 25,000 years, and a few slithers of flint? If there was an intelligent dinosaur, that built cities etc, would we find any evidence of this after all this time?
After us? There was an articule in New Scientist a couple of weeks ago. I think the upshot was that the earth would just rebuild the preditor/prey chains. So a wolf "dominates" where it is the lead preditor. But that's nothing to how humans dominate when in groups.
On the other hand, if civilisation goes completely pear-shaped, I think some humans would survive. Rome was dominant, but when it fell, people returned to mud-hut type of existance. Even that is not strictly sustainable, either
I have just seen the last of a (thankfully) dying breed on the lunchtime news: an old phahrt of a so-called scientist, urging everyone to be 'extremely cautious' about what he described as the 'lack of concrete evidence' supporting the idea of climate change.
Glancing outside my kitchen window, I see the leaves haven't even started changing colour yet, and there's a man walking past the house in shirt sleeves.
At the risk of quoting another network ... is it me??
Well, I'm glad that others are supportive of incentives to go green. It is truly bonkers that the powers that be might hike up council tax on properties which have energy efficient measures installed.
On the Listed Building/Conservation bit (which I'm not knocking as I wouldn't want to see GB become bland and uninteresting) I think a bit of commonsense needs to be injected into our need to conserve, along perhaps with a good dose of innovation to find solutions which don't wreck old buildings or their appearance but do provide modern solutions.
M Thusalah - Like you, I share concerns over developing inappropriate sites. I live very close to a flood plain (fortunately, a few hundred yards outside it - those sixteenth century chappies knew what they were doing!) We had major flooding here in 2000 (like many other areas) and yet the local council went ahead and granted Planning Permission for about thirty homes on the flood plain in 2002.
As to over population and the needs of affordable housing for the caring professions, etc. - Yes, I know there are loads of issues there. I used to work for a charity concerned with older people (yes, that one) and am very familiar with the problems of finding carers for older people in areas where house prices are way way beyond the affordable. But that now applies to most of GB, doesn't it?
However, I think I'll keep off the issue of house prices as that's such a huge can of worms and I think it will bring out the worst in us all.
OTL (40),
There are companies around here that will double glaze and draughtproof the existing sash windows. Quite expensive. Before regs came in, neighbours had fitted UV windows that may be efficient, but stand out like a sore thumb.
Deep (41)
The manufacture of uPVC involves horrendous emissions ... not only do they look horrible (okay, maybe that's just my opinion) but they aren't remotely environmentally friendly.
When my parents retired, from a modern timber-framed bungalow with stainless steel double glazing (which attracted condensation and later damp) they bought a sandstone house with sliding sash windows.
My dad sourced a local company that would re-make the same design of window, in wood, only double-glazed.
You can't tell unless you touch the glass that they're not original. And you wouldn't believe the number of doubting double-glazing salesmen my dad has had to suggest touch his windows over the years!
Of course, a selfish swine like that SHOULD have to pay more Council Tax. Stands to reason, innit?
Grrrrr.
Working for a large retailer it is very evident that being environmentally aware and investing in environmental projects is only acceptable if there is a payback.
The idea of investing inprojects that produce nothing to the bottom line is not acceptable and more to the point if revenue is generated from projects it goes straight to the bottom line and is not reinvested
Not again. I'm still getting over the EuroVision Song Contest, and having to turn my clocks back 20 years.
There is no evidence that Daylight Saving Time makes any difference to our energy consumption, or saves lives, children or anyone else.
In the middle of winter, Scottish children will either go to school, or return from school, in the dark.
(43) DM... welcome to The World...
Climate Change on a national scale: Why not install solar panels/wind turbines etc etc for all newly built houses/offices as standard, in fact make it the law. Over a period of the next 100 years or so, it would mean that most buildings are automatically 'Green' without installing a new tax.
On the other cynical hand, I do think that this recent glut of headlines about global warming is just a way to push something more important off the headlines at the moment. It's the age-old 'sudden' fear-mongering tactic which have proved so effective before for many governments.
Dm (43)
I lead a very strange life. Back in the summer, I attended the launch of our Regional Waste Strategy. So far, so dull...
But there was a fascinating presentation by a guy from Boots the Chemist.
Boots has figured out that :
a) Cutting out unnecessary packaging significantly reduces their waste disposal costs and -- whoah! -- benefits the bottom line;
b) Research into plastic recycling technology -- steady now!! -- pays them back financially in the long run.
All I'm saying is: there's hope but it depends on convincing the bean counters.