A whimsy colder than the coldest thing you can think off at
the castle this morn, the Honda has a brand new rear exit window and it had
been a roller coaster week.
As of yestermorn I am no longer a benefit scrounger, after
two days on the dole, the study is packed to the rafters with dodgy digit do
dahs, and I have enough work to last well into the New Year.
So I contacted my 12 year old “personal advisor” dahn at the
non Jobs Centre and ‘politely’ told him to place my claim for £65 per week into
his out tray.
There has been a fair few “anonymous” commenter’s wanting to
submit posts, no problem, all you have to do is contact me on the email address
on the blog (angusdei@live.co.uk)and
we will go from there.
This is essential if Britain is to meet its legally-binding obligation to cut greenhouse gases to 20 per cent of their level in 1990 by 2050.
Other changes advocated by the Committee included building
houses out of wood rather than steel, cement and concrete which were
responsible for generating higher carbon emissions.
A number of bus companies, including Stagecoach, have started using cooking oil for part of their fleet.
Trials were started in Kilmarnock, three years ago. Used fat is now being used on buses in Cambridge and Gwynedd.
They won’t be any more punctual but at least you will smell them coming...
Is set to receive a £2 billion extension despite the failed
project being abandoned, it was claimed last night.
Computer Sciences Corporation [CSC] has reportedly informed
Wall Street that it expects its contract to provide electronic patient records
across the NHS to be extended.
Taxpayers are now facing an estimated £2billion bill,
despite the company already failing to deliver a fully functional version of
its software, The Times
reported.
The £11.4billion National Programme for IT, set up in 2002,
was at the time billed as the world’s biggest civilian computerisation project.
It aimed to give doctors instant access to patient records
wherever they were being treated and CSC had signed a deal to computerise
records in most of England.
Digitising the medical records of the country’s 62 million
people was the core objective of the National Programme for IT in the NHS,
accounting for £7bn of the total estimated cost.
Yet CSC stated in official US papers that it was in talks
with the British Government for its contract to be extended until 2017, at a
cost of up to £2billion.
On Wednesday night, the Department of Health [DoH] admitted
that “negotiations” were ongoing with the company over its NHS contracts, but
would not comment further.
Sigh.....
A sandwich which stays fresh for up to two years has been
developed for the US army as Dr George McGavin found out as part of his
investigation into what happens when food rots.
Preservation is done without freeze drying or refrigeration.
The trick: Without water, bacteria can’t grow, so removing the water would
preserve the food… but a without water, food would taste terrible. So, they use
honey, sugar and salt to grab the water and keep it from being used by pests.
Also a packet of iron filings scavenges the oxygen. Removing the oxygen
prevents yeast, mold and bacteria from growing.
No thanks....
A mobility scooter has been seized by Doncaster council
officers after being driven at speeds of up to 60mph, scaring wild deer and
annoying residents in the area.
Converted to be driven by a supercharged 140cc petrol engine, the mobility scooter was described as a 'feat of engineering' by Cynthia Ransome, Doncaster council's communities officer.
As well as the engine, it had been 'pimped'
with go-kart wheels and a large exhaust.
The mobility scooter's 24-year-old rider was stopped and the vehicle seized on Sunday. It has now been returned to its owner.
That’ll scare the poo out of him.
The mobility scooter's 24-year-old rider was stopped and the vehicle seized on Sunday. It has now been returned to its owner.
That’ll scare the poo out of him.
And finally:
Marilyn Sharland, a vicar, is furious after Liberal
Democrats called Christmas 'the winter festive season' in a local newsletter.
Rev Marilyn Sharland said she was annoyed that the "banal"
headline in the Lib Dem flyer showed disrespect to Christians by failing to
give Christmas its proper name."I was really, really put out," said Rev Sharland, who is a canon of Gloucester cathedral as well as a parish vicar in the city.
"I'm fed up with people trying to sideline the Christian faith and as a consequence they are sidelining the festival of Christmas.
"People of all faiths and those who have none all celebrate Christmas because it's a lovely time and a great thing to do."
But Gloucestershire County Councillor Bill Crowther (Lib Dem, Hucclecote) said he did not understand why anyone would take offence.
He said: "We decided on the headline because it was an article about all the great things going on in December in Hucclecote, including things at the churches, and praising the people involved in them.
“They” really don’t get it do they.
And today’s thought:
Angus
