Oodles of fast moving atmosphere, wet stuff and a whimsy of
white fluffy stuff at the Castle this morn, the study is still replete with
misbehaving machines, his Maj has decided that going out is orf the agenda and
the butler is stuffing fat teenagers into the furnace faster than even U-Turn
Cam can change what is laughingly called his mind.
Apparently:
According to “them” the costs of wind farms and other
low-carbon technology will not lead to sharp rises in fuel bills.
The Committee on
Climate Change (CCC) says increases in bills over the past few years have been
largely due to higher wholesale gas costs.
Members said their
"best estimate" was that green policies would add £110 to bills per
household in 2020.
It emerged recently
that an estimated 1.5m people are in fuel debt in the UK.
The combined gas
and electricity bill for typical households could go up from £1,060 in 2010 to
£1,250 in 2020, according to analysis by the committee.
But further energy
efficiency measures - such as loft and wall cavity insulation - could see the
projected 2020 bill fall to £1,085 per household, it said.
CCC chief executive
David Kennedy said the committee had analysed the impact of investing in
technology including offshore and onshore wind, nuclear and carbon capture and
storage.
Mr Kennedy said the
cost of this investment was "significantly" outweighed by the
benefits - including a reduced reliance on imported fossil fuels.
Coulda, woulda, shoulda.....
And allegedly:
British officials
are to take part in discussions on plans for a new EU fiscal pact, despite U-Turn
Cam refusing to sign up to the agreement.
The Prime Monster
agreed the move in a phone call with the president of the European Council,
Herman von Rompuy.
The decision comes
as the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde warned
Europe's debt crisis would not be solved by Europe alone and called on all
countries to work together to avoid a 1930s-style depression.
It also follows the
first signs of cracks forming in the new European Union finance deal signed up
by all EU countries except the UK at the Brussels summit last week with the
leaders of the Czech Republic and Hungary announcing they will not sign the
pact unless tax harmonisation plans are dropped.
Do I give a gorilla’s gonads? Nah...
Dodger the 15-year-old tom boards buses for up to 10 miles,
sits on passengers’ laps and gets off without paying. Drivers even know his home
bus stop.
Dodger’s servant Mrs Fee Jeanes, 44, said: “My daughter
Emily told me one of her friends had seen him on the bus at Charmouth. I
panicked and then the bus pulled up and he got off.
“That afternoon I saw Dodger climb on another bus and I
rushed to tell the driver. She told me Dodger was always on there. Sometimes he
sits in the middle of the road and waits.”
A spokesman for bus firm First said: “Given this cat is
elderly we suspect it would be eligible for free travel, perhaps a bus puss.”
I can’t get my bus pass until March 2013...
A North Texas
police department is handing out gift cards instead of tickets.
This week, the
Prosper Police Department is rewarding good traffic habits.
The majority of the
giving happens in schools zone. Police stop people dropping off their kids to
surprise them with the $10 gift cards.
"There's such
a high concentration of drivers at pick-up and drop-off times that we can
safely approach those vehicles," Assistant Prosper Police Chief Gary
McHone said. "Maybe they had a safe speed coming into a parking lot, their
inspections were up-to-date, they were using the safety belts in the vehicles, and
their child was in a safety restraint."
McHone said it's
their way to live up to a well-known police motto.
"To protect
and serve -- I think this is a key component in serving is to acknowledge and
give thanks to our community," McHone said.
An Australian vet
is offering one-to-one obedience classes for cats.
Nicole Hoskin
claims she can train kittens to sit, stay and fetch.
One of her most
challenging students so far has been a 10-week-old hearing-impaired kitten
called Buzz.
The youngster needs
to learn hand commands because he is unlikely to ever respond to vocal
commands.
Dr Hoskin said:
"He's been dumped and is going to be harder to re-home so I've had to
teach him to pay attention to me.
"Already he's
sitting on command and high-fiving with one paw and he can high-10 with both
paws over his head."
Originally, Dr
Hoskin offered a service similar to puppy obedience classes but the project
failed.
"If you get
more than one cat in a room, the claws come out," she said.
She says dogs learn
just to please their owners, but cats will only pay attention for food rewards.
Tell me something I don’t know....
Thousands of children have been left heartbroken after
Father Christmas was turned away from their school – for criminal checks.
The Welsh Assembly has ordered that all Santa’s be vetted by
the Criminal Records Bureau.
But the demand came too late for many schools in
Pembrokeshire, south Wales, which have been forced to abandon their traditional
gift-giving events.
Pembrokeshire MP Stephen Crabb branded the cancellation of
Christmas in schools – which often involves fathers and grandfathers – as ‘red
tape gone mad’.
The Tory said: ‘Criminal record checks were never supposed
to be used for volunteers that sustain and support so much of school life on an
infrequent basis.
Volunteers from Fishguard and Goodwick Round Table have
accompanied Santa into schools for several years but now felt their ‘hands were
tied’.
Chairman Peter Devonald said: ‘Our Father Christmas is CRB
checked but we all have to have CRB checks to accompany him.
But a government spokesman said: ‘It is for Pembrokeshire
county council to ensure appropriate checks are made on staff and volunteers
who come into contact with children.’
That’s it: I’m orf to buy a chest wig.
And today’s thought:
Angus
2 comments:
I am sure it is the cats that are training the humans and not the other way round ;-)
so am I CherryPie:)
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