Usual at the Castle this morn, much lack of warm, oodles of
atmospheric movement, bags of skywater and fuck all solar stuff.
It's been an "interesting" last seven days or so,
as the old saying goes-no good deed goes unpunished which turned out to be more
than true last Thursday.
I pottered over to B&Q in Farnborough to suss out some
underwater gardening stuff and saw an old fart (about the same age as me)
struggling to get four 6x6 foot fence panels onto one of their stupid trolleys
which ran away every time he approached it so I lent a hand and grabbed one end
of each and the stuff was loaded in less than no time.
Unfortunately it was pissing dahn with wet stuff and the tanalising
stuff ended up all over my hands, later that day large welts started to erupt
all over my poor old bod, I spent four days scratching and four dark things not
sleeping until I finally managed to acquire an appointment with a general medic
(not my usual one) who after being an hour late decided to discuss the pros and
cons of wood treatment (apparently arsenic is
no longer used, but a copper thingy is now the in thing) while I sat there
scratching parts of my body until they bled.
I finally got the script for some antihistamines and some
cream and am now on the mend (again).
And His Maj has been getting some unwelcome visitors-a
couple of scruffy flea ridden moggies that seem to enjoy stealing his food and
pissing all over the kitchen.
So I had a gander at the interweb thingy and found a
"smart" cat flap, which has a built in scanner and only opens to His
Maj's identity chip, bloody wonderful, took minutes to install, seconds to set
up and now he can come and go with impunity, have all his food to himself and
sit by the flap giving the equivalent of the finger to said moggies.
I would recommend this do-dah if you have similar problems,
the only snag is that it cost almost £60, you can get cheaper
"magnetic" flaps but it means that your pussy will have to wear a
collar and if like His Maj they don't like things around their necks that can
be a prob as well.
Since fitting it there have been no raids and the kitchen
smells nice again.
After more than forty light and dark things of rain
apparently most of Blighty is submerged, Dickhead Dave has been touring sodden
parts of the country to "see" the water and "reassure" the
blighted people of Blighty that all will be well and "money will be no
object" when it comes to sorting out Noah's puddles.
Yeah right.......
The Secretary of transport, someone named Patrick McLoughlin reckons that there is no
"blank cheque" for flooding relief despite Dickhead Dave saying money
is "no object".
The Transport
Secretary said that the Government would “use every resource” but refused to
say that new money will be made available.
Violent winds of up to 100 miles an hour are expected to batter Britain as storms sweep across the country and bring further flooding to some areas.
Forecasters have warned that the storms could bring the strongest winds seen this winter and a month's worth of rain is expected to fall by Friday.
So that's sorted that out then.....
A
University of Tennessee, Knoxville study has found that reptiles can climb
trees. The study concluded that at least four species of crocodiles climbed
trees, but how far up they went varied by their sizes. The smaller ones were
able to climb higher and further than the larger ones. Some of them were
observed climbing as far as four meters high.
The
crocodilians seen climbing trees, whether at night or during the day, were
skittish of being approached, jumping or falling into the water when an
approaching observer was as far as 10 meters away. This response led the
researchers to believe that the tree climbing and basking are driven by two
conditions: thermoregulation and surveillance of habitat.
Better cut the trees dahn around the moat then.
Hundreds of people in nothing more than underwear walked through the city of Medellin and gathered at River Park for 'No Pants Day' on Sunday.
New York performance art group Improv Everywhere started No Pants Day in 2002, but it has since grown into an international craze, which is being used by Colombians as a statement for their freedom of expression.
What a pants idea....
And finally:
Allegedly Sarah Palin turns half a century today.
And to celebrate here are some Palin Twatts:
"Refudiate,"
"misunderestimate," "wee-wee'd up." English is a living
language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!
Happy Birthday, Ronald Reagan! February is a month for
great presidents. This month we celebrate the birthdays of... http://fb.me/2JcqTtCRj
"But
obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies." --Sarah
Palin, after being asked how she would handle the current hostilities between
the two Koreas, interview on Glenn Beck's radio show, Nov. 24, 2010
"What the
federal government should have done is accept the assistance of foreign
countries, of entrepreneurial Americans who have had solution that they wanted
presented ... The Dutch and the Norwegians, they are known for dikes and for
cleaning up water and for dealing with spills." --Sarah Palin, on solving
the Gulf oil spill crisis, Fox News, June 15, 2010
Here's to the next fifty years....
That's it: I'm orf to drive
some cells
And today's thought:
Blighty's future
Angus
