Much lack of warm, oodles of sky water, more than a
bit of atmospheric movement and not a glimpse of Dawns crack at the castle this
morn.
It has been many moons since I put finger to
keyboard, bits have dropped orf and been replaced, other bits have broken and
been fixed, but poor old Angus is now up and “running” on seven out of eight
cylinders.
His Maj is just as batty as ever, but has grown into
a big, friendly, playful boy.
The butler is still refusing to “do” outside and the
garden is waking up from its winter sleep.
Finally upgraded to Windows 10, with the help of “classic shell” I have managed to make
it look like windows 7-win, win.
Many, many things have happened just lately,
apparently “They” (otherwise known as the rich) have been hiding their stash
abroad without telling the taxman, Prime Monster Damn “Dave” blames his dad,
and is trying to scare us out of leaving the EU.
Not working is it Dave....
Son of a
B.....aronet and alien reptile in disguise chancer at the exchequer George (where
is Panama?) Osbourne has jumped on the Bremain band wagon and is threatening
interest rate rises if we dump Europe.
Or maybe not......
Meanwhile old
fart Jezza Corbyn who is also in the Bremain camp (this time anyway) was
fined for sending in his tax return late.
A “Tiger whisperer has been mauled to death Malayan tiger inside its habitat, Stacey Konwiser, 38, suffered a
"severe bite" wound while inside the big cat's habitat on Friday
afternoon, say zoo officials.
She was performing basic tasks
with the male Malayan tiger at the time, said zoo spokeswoman Naki Carter.
Apparently those attached to the Victorian mode of
transport have finally emerged into the nineteenth century-electric bikes.
With 2327 imported last year, they were 1 per cent of all bike imports, but
this marked a near four-fold increase since 2012. Retailers report sales growth
of 35 per cent a year.
Importer and retailer Neil Pollett, owner of Flux, in Ponsonby, says the
"grey-power" age group were first to embrace e-bikes, but the trend
had caught on with people in their 30s to 50s, and even younger.
New
Zealand Post has 280 e-bikes and 25 more on order, a spokeswoman said.
"The New Lynn, Rotorua, Kapiti and Timaru branches are all using e-bikes,
plus we have a sprinkling of others around the country. The e-bikes are good on
hills and on the flat.
Lots of lack of warm, even more skywater, not even a cough
of atmospheric movement and negative solar stuff at the Castle this morn, still
no hot water-the “man” can’t get here until Wednesday morn, but he did suggest
that I switch on the immersion heater in the tank-my reply was “have you seen
the price of Leccy lately” to which he made an odd noise and went away.
I
see that the Ex Nazi Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger (otherwise known as the Ex
Nazi Pope Benedict the more than fifteen) has handed in his notice on the
grounds that “I have come to the
certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an
adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry.”
Oh dear. What a shame, maybe he could spend his remaining
time contemplating the millions of people murdered by his former employer...
It seems that the same sex marriage of the ConTories and the
LibDooms has managed to complete the massive number of seven of the 576 major
building projects in the Government's much-trumpeted national infrastructure
plan, according to a report out today.
Apparently only 1 per cent of the schemes are operational
and just 18 per cent are said to have "started" or to be "under
construction", according to data compiled by Labour from Treasury figures.
Has let go of the tree he has been hugging for the last decade
or so and is preparing to battle authorities after Britain's oldest working
fish smokehouse was shut down after a single resident complained about the
smell.
It had survived for more than 130 years and was bombed in
the Blitz but Walter Purkis and Sons was told to close by Haringey council
following a complaint from a resident in a nearby flat block in Crouch End,
North London.
The Purkis family were informed last month the smokehouse
was in breach of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the Clean Air Act
1993.
But Charlie, who has been said to be a strong supporter of
traditional and organic foods, has stepped in to help the owner of the
business, John Purkis, whose family has been in the fish business for
generations.
Last week a female member of the Prince's staff came to see
the Purkis family and asked for details about what had happened.
It was explained that the smokehouse won a reprieve and was
once again allowed to produce its kippers, smoked salmon and mackerel. However
the family were worried the reversal of the ban may only be temporary.
That’s alright then; but are they real fish; could they be
fake fish with Romanian slugs and snails and puppy dog tails cunningly disguised ,
perhaps the dept for Gee-Gee Grub could investigate....
Human beings are not the only creatures on Earth who cause
the climate of the planet to change. Ordinary earthworms also make a
significant contribution to global warming. Scientists believe that in the next
few decades, the population of earthworms will experience a real boom.
The soil produces about 20 percent of global emissions of
carbon dioxide and two-thirds of nitrous oxide. Worms act as architects of this
ecosystem. They make the structure soil more porous and interact with microbes
that produce carbon dioxide. The presence of invertebrates in the soil is
directly related to the amount of carbon dioxide that the soil releases in the
atmosphere. Nitrous oxide produces the bacteria that live in the intestines of
worms. The concentration of nitrous oxide is three times higher in the places
inhabited by earthworms.
A while back, scientists faced the following problem. On the
one hand, worms contribute to the growth of emissions in the atmosphere from
the soil. On the other hand, then help "recycle" carbon dioxide,
hiding it under the ground. This contradiction became known as the
"dilemma of earthworms."
In a new study, an international team of scientists from the
Netherlands, the U.S. and Colombia analyzed the results of 237 separate
experiments that studied the role of earthworms in greenhouse gas emissions,
says the Guardian. The researchers carried out experiments on the
emissions of all types of gas and found that the worms increase the
global-warming potential of soil by 16 percent.
And the results could even be worse if the worms drive about
in cars...
In a world first, a McDonald's franchise in Australia is
offering full table service for its dine-in customers, complete with china plates, glassware and metal utensils in
place of the more usual paper boxes and plastic.
Meals are also brought
to the table by waiters and waitresses, and diners can daintily dab their lips
with cloth napkins after eating.
"It's very
popular," store manager Michelle Steain told Reuters of the five-week trial
service. "Everyone seems to be loving it."
Glenn and Katia
Dwarte, owners of the franchise in Warilla, some 100 km (62 miles) south of
Sydney, sought permission for the idea after their habit of serving Mr Dwarte's
parents with cutlery and plates caught the attention of other diners.
The dine-in offer is
open to customers who purchase premium meals between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. each
day.
Not a lot of warm at the Castle this morn, more than a
whimsy of atmospheric movement, a smidge of blue stuff above and the big yellow
thing is hiding behind white fluffy stuff.
If the Devil could cast his net, as next week U-Turn Cam,
Son of a B......aronet and alien reptile in disguise George (OES) Osborne and
what’s his name will allegedly undergo hours of questioning about their
dealings with News Corp and its newspapers.
Also appearing at the mind numbingly boring “inquiry” will
be Clone B, Gord and the fish from Norf of the border.
If you can raise the strength and find some stay awake pills
click on the link over the pic and find out who, what, when and where they will
appear to try to vindicate themselves of all responsibility for cow-towing to
the media.
Or like me you could ignore the whole pointless thing and
get on with your life.
According to “blood-crazed ferret” Damien Thompson the OES
have taken over the world, Overeducated Elitist Snobs it seems have suddenly
arisen to rule the cosmos.
Allegedly David Cameron and George Osborne who have inherited
money, and are furiously ambitious academic snobs, who have superior
brains and intend to amass even more money and power.
Couple of points Damien-if U-Turn Cam and Son of a B……aronet
George (now where did I put my O level maths book) Osborne have “superior”
brains then the rest of us are genius’s, over education does not signify
intelligence, it signifies the wherewithal to pay and the time to indulge in
it.
Point two is that OES’s have always ruled the world; it is
just that this lot do not have any common sense at all because of their
inexperience and lack of touch with real people.
A Seattle billionaire who purchased the world's most
expensive car for $35 million is now attempting to sell his private Canadian
island for $75 million.
Craig McCaw, who sold his company, McCaw Cellular, to
AT&T for $11.5 billion in 1993 and now runs high-speed wireless provider
Clearwire, is attempting to sell the 780-acre James Island, part of British
Columbia's Gulf Islands, with an asking price of $75 million, Seattlepi.com
reported Wednesday.
The island currently hosts an 18-hole golf course, a
5,000-square-foot residence, six guest cottages, private docks, an airstrip, a
pool house and a "western village."
McCaw said he is selling the island because his family has
"the perfect storm of kids' activities and no one wants to be left
behind."
Aisea Poulivaati and other workers at a downtown Portland
apartment complex wondered for months what a man kept lugging around in a pink
rolling suitcase.
"We heard there may have been a person in there,"
said Poulivaati, a courtesy desk clerk at the 333 Oak Apartments. "But
it's not like we could have proven that."
Monday afternoon, a caller told police that a man kidnapped
a woman, put her in a pink suitcase and took it into the apartments.
Officers shared the witness’s description with the building
manager, who said it might be resident Curtis T. Lowe, 52.
Lowe denied knowing anything about a woman in a suitcase,
said a police report.
But officers searched the apartment. They found a pink
suitcase in the living room and Kola J. McGrath, 50, in the closet.
The woman, described by police as 5-foot-6 and 96 pounds,
told officers she had not been kidnapped. Instead, she was hiding in the
suitcase because she had been banned from the apartment complex since April
2011.
McGrath was arrested and booked into Multnomah County Jail
on a trespassing count. She has since been released.
Being a bit cruel, but honest; if that were my girlfriend I
would keep her in a suitcase as well….
A previously undiscovered variety of berry found in western
Sweden has been dubbed the "Blingon," a combination of lingon and
blueberry.
Sveriges Radio said the fruit, which was found by botanist
Evastina Blomgren, was named Blingon because the leaves have a blueberry colour
and a leathery texture similar to a lingonbery plant, The Local.se reported
Friday.
Blomgren said botanists were previously aware of the plants,
which grow in several locations in Sweden, but were previously unaware of any
instances where the plants sprouted berries. She said the plants are believed
to be the result of cross-pollination of nearby blueberry and lingonbery
plants.
The botanist said the berries are unlikely to become a
popular food source.
Apparently German Catholics
upset about media attacks on ex Nazi Pope Benedict over the "Vatileaks"
scandal can now show solidarity with the German-born pontiff by sending
pre-printed postcards bearing the message "We are with you!"
Germany's 'Pro-Papa' group said it wanted to do
"something more than praying" to support ex Nazi Benedict, who has
expressed "sadness in my heart" over the scandal rocking the Church.
"Anyone can download the postcard template with Benedict's image and
the pre-printed solidarity message 'Pope Benedict, we are with you!' and then
send it to the Holy Father," the head of the group, Sabine Benedikta Beschmann,
told Reuters.
Around 1,000 people have downloaded and sent the postcard since the launch
of the initiative a week ago, she said.
