Oodles of lack of warm, nary a sprinkle of white fluffy
stuff, absence of atmospheric movement and less sunny stuff than you could
shake a solar panel at, at the Castle this morn, the butler is loading up the
furnace conveyer belt with gangs of fat, carbon neutral teenagers and his Maj
has discovered the joy of ambush from the top of the wardrobes.
And it seems that up Norf the wevver has not been as
clement, which will please the school kiddlies no end.
And after a week and three days Blogger still hasn’t sorted
out the IE/photos problem.
Pressure is building on Son of a.......Baronet and alien
reptile in disguise George (let the plebs starve to death) Osborne tonight to
introduce emergency measures to prevent big city banks from deferring
multi-million pound bonus payments to their UK staff until after the 50p top
rate of tax is abolished in April.
Allegedly Goldman Sachs was one of a number of city
institutions looking at pushing back the pay-out date for deferred bonuses
awarded in 2010, 2011 and 2012 until after April 6 when the top rate of income
tax drops to 45p.
A number of foreign banks are also understood to be
considering a similar move to (allegedly) Goldman. Bankers at state backed
Royal Bank of Scotland will also benefit because it regularly pays bonuses in
June.
But do not forget-WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.....
According to Mark Hall, Gentleman Creation Officer for
Socked.co.uk "Men's standards have slipped so far over recent years that
any offer of chivalry from a gentleman knocks a woman off their guard and is
viewed with outright suspicion.
The survey carried out by the online service, which helps
men to dress well and offers free tips on etiquette, revealed just how much
women rejected chivalrous behaviour.
The survey said:
82% of women said they would prefer to pay for their dinner
on a first date
52% said they would happily pay for the entire bill on a
first date
89% of women said they would not take up the offer from a
man to carrying their bag
78% would not accept a coat from a man on a cold day
Only 34% of women said they expect men to open doors for
them
8% said they would take up the offer of a seat if a man
offered. In London, this figure was only 2 per cent.
The survey also came up with some surprising answers:
98% said they would like to be bought flowers, but only 32%
had actually received flowers in the past twelve months
41% of women agreed men should be able to wear dresses
Oh dear, but at least we can wear a frock....
A group of rafters camping along the river in August was
headed for bed when they noticed a black-and-white animal in the bushes near
one of their tents. Jen Hiebert grabbed her camera, zoomed in and took some
pictures.
When the rafters didn't see the skunk listed as one of the
animals found at the Grand Canyon, Hiebert sent photos and a note to the
National Park Service.
"It was just walking through the canyon, totally
ignored us and was just digging away in the sand," said Hiebert, of
Moscow, Idaho. "I'm not sure what it was after."
Grand Canyon biologists later confirmed the group's
suspicion that it was a hog-nosed skunk.
At first, officials weren't sure whether the skunk was merely
visiting the area, or if they should to add it to the list of about 90 mammals
that live in the national park. They decided that by listing it - even as
extremely rare - people might be on the lookout for more of the skunks, and
that could help biologists determine how prevalent they are in the park.
U-Turn Cam isn’t in the ex-colonies by any chance is he?
Canadian Jason Schron loves VIA trains so much that he
actually spent four and a half years and $10,000 building his own genuine
replica of a 1980s VIA train cart, accurate down to the tiniest details, right
in the basement of his home, in Vaughan, Ontario.
Not bad for $10,000 Canadian Dollars or £9.50 in proper
money.
Astronomers have discovered the largest known structure in
the universe – a group of quasars so large it would take 4 billion years to
cross it while travelling at speed of light.
The immense scale also challenges Albert Einstein’s
Cosmological Principle, the assumption that the universe looks the same from
every point of view, researchers said.
Quasars are believed to be the brightest objects in the
universe, with light emanating from the nuclei of galaxies from the early days
of the universe and visible billions of light-years away.
“Since 1982 it has been known that quasars tend to group
together in clumps or ‘structures’ of surprisingly large sizes, forming large
quasar groups or LQGs,” the society said.
This newly discovered large quasar group has a dimension of
500 megaparsecs, each megaparsec measuring 3.3 million light-years.
Because the LQG is elongated, its longest dimension is 1,200
megaparsecs, or 4 billion light-years, the society said.
That size is 1,600 times larger than the distance from
Earth’s Milky Way to the nearest galaxy, the Andromeda.
Old Albert will be spinning in his cryogenic chamber.
And finally:
According to a ‘bombshell’ new book, “Going Clear:
Scientology, Hollywood & The Prison of Belief” Tom Cruise who is number 3
in the Hubbard hierarchy will save the world from aliens, he has signed a billion-year
contract of service with the Church of Scientology, the book details Cruise’s
demigod status within the church, as well as the group’s ultimate purpose —
protect humanity from aliens living in our bodies, who are bent on destroying
us and ultimately the planet.
Billion year contract-I do like an optimist....
That’s it: I’m orf to keep an eye on
Java
And today’s thought:
RBS car park.
Angus
