It wasn't my idea, Chris suggested that it would be a good thing for me to get for her for Christmas.
It turned out to be a great night - Bellowhead are much better live than their recordings suggest.
Here, judge for yourselves:
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French letters
Recipe for Disaster
Ingredients:
- 3 x Science
- 2 or 3 x Maths
- 2 x English
- 2 x Humanities
- 1 x language
- 1 x sprinkling of Computing
Method:
- Take one meddling politician who won't listen to reason
- Give that politician the authority to tinker and meddle with the ingredients
- Ensure that the politician gets everything really mixed up
- Half-bake the mix until it all goes tits-up
- Give the creation a fancy French name that many kids won't be able to spell anyway
- Feed it to many thousands of schoolkids
- Wash your hands of all responsibility
- Reassign the politician at the next Cabinet reshuffle
- Let the next Government clear up the mess
Well done, you've just concocted the EBC, an inbred version of the EBacc.
It doesn't look very good, does it? I imagine it'll taste bitter with a hint of merde.
Where's the landlord when you need him? He wouldn't stand for all that foreign-sounding rubbish.
If he ever stood for election to Parliament, he'd get my vote 🙂
Let’s Rock!!!
Not this:
This:
That's just a screenshot of the BGS Geology of Britain viewer, you can load the viewer in you browser by clicking here.
You can also generate embed code for sticking interactive maps into blog posts, just like this:
That's where Ken was a few days ago.
The BGS also have a few apps for iPhone and Android, I have both the iGeology and iGeology3D apps on my HTC Wildfire and they've been useful for info when out and about. I'd imaging that they'd look and work really well on an iPad or an Android tablet but I can't verify that as I own neither.
That said, the iGeology app works a treat on the XP laptop when running in the BlueStacks App Player:
Cock of Arran
It's a nice bit of kit to have around if you're into that sort of thing.
If it would work in/with Memory-Map etc. then route-planning according to geological features rather than by topography would be a doddle.
My legs are grey, my ears are gnarled, my eyes are old and bent.
Apologies for the lack of regular posts. I fear that I'm becoming a virtual hiker...
Outdoorsy stuff
For me it's all on hold after the latest consultation. The expert reckons that I might have to wait another six months for my insides to heal fully, only then will they consider a further procedure to remove the tags and piles that were caused by the original op. Any exertion aggravates said tags, leading to inflammation, infection and blockage, this means that I only get limited exercise which in turn has led to significant muscle-loss and a reduction of core body strength. I'm now so unfit that wielding the vacuum-cleaner for only 10 minutes on Wednesday resulted in me straining my back and now I'm confined to quarters and popping the Ibuprofens. Looks like our week in Skye later this month will be a sightseeing tour rather than an opportunity to assault some classic ridges and peaks.
Olympics
Well, I have plenty of time to watch the events on the box as I'm pretty much a captive audience. Anna's down The Smoke right now on a school-trip, she was in the basketball arena this evening watching Team GB v France and Team USA v The Czech Republic, where the Beeb's camera caught her and her friends doing their bit of a magnificent Mexican Wave. After overnighting at Eton College she'll be spending the morning in Greenwich Park watching the equestrian events.
Astronomy
I have plenty of time for this too, but the weather's been naff at night. On the odd occasions when it's been cloudless the jetstream has been playing havoc with the seeing - the last time I imaged the Moon it looked like someone was pouring water over it:
Hailstorm damage
The Loss Adjuster's been around and we have agreed terms. We've already been paid out for damage to the outbuildings, primarily because I'd done the pricing-up myself, but we're still waiting for builders to provide quotes for the repairs to the house roof and the windows. There's so much property damage around here that we're on a long waiting-list for repair-work, we're looking at mid- to late-September at the earliest.
Ah well, never mind, things could be worse.
Past the sell-by date
You've probably seen this ad on yer telly:
If so, you might have wondered what it's all about.
On the face of it, it's an ad about how National Lottery funding has helped one K. Edwards to represent GB in the 2012 Olympics as an 800m runner. It's oddly anachronistic and we still can't figure out why her mum looks so old at the end of it, but I suppose that only the nit-picking few would be bothered by that.
Of course, K. Edwards doesn't really exist. The ad is based on the story of Team GB athlete Jenny Meadows and her mother Barbara, who was also an athlete, but unable to compete in the Olympics because of a lack of funding. The Meadows are played by actors and the story is narrated by the mother, looking back at their lives.
Here are a couple of clickable quotes from the world of the meeja:
The ad was first aired on June 11th, is still on the box today and is scheduled to run until July 13th.
Admirable stuff.
Until you consider the fact that on July 3rd Jenny Meadows was omitted from Team GB...
So, lots of funding yet no possibility of an 800m result for Jenny Meadows. Or for Marilyn Okoro, Emma Jackson and Jemma Simpson.
Surely the National Lottery folks should stop peddling this ad. It has become so detached from reality that it could be considered a lie.
Ice-storm #2 – video
Video as promised. This used to be our garden, now it's like the Somme...
The local paper's website says that the hailstones were as big as golf-balls. Well, that may have been true for Hinckley, but in Burbage we were getting some as big as cricket-balls!
I suppose you'll want to see what they've done to my car. I'll post the pics later.
