Global Warming; a lesson.
So, Bea decided, it was actually happening!
What to do?
Now Bea, not a scientist or a particularly sharp cookie, had made up her mind. She was not entirely convinced, but given an element of doubt, she decided to err on the side of caution.
When I was but thirteen or so
I went into a golden land,
Chimborazo, Cotopaxi
Took me by the hand.
“It will be out secret”, said the priest. “I want you to promise not to tell anybody, not even your mother. Nobody must know?”
Antonio sat silently, on the edge of the bed looking down at his feet, brushing away a tear from his eye.
The priest placed his hand on the boy’s shoulder and gave it a squeeze.
“Promise me?”
“I promise, Father”, said the boy.
“There’s a good lad. Here, let me dry your tears away. You don’t want anybody to see you have been crying.” He reached for a handkerchief and wiped Antonio’s eyes.
“Go back to your own bed now and get some sleep. You will fee better in the morning.”
“I am not crying because of the pain,” said the boy.
“I know. Continue reading “Popocatapetl in the sunlight gleams”
Barack Obama: Gulf of Mexico oil spill an ‘environmental 9/11’
He’s going to milk this to try to push through a carbon cap and trade bill that will cripple American industry and businesses, reduce standards of living for American people, and export jobs in ever larger numbers to China, India and other places that are rubbing their hands in glee at the arrant stupidity of Western politicians.
“A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once”. Phyllis Diller
Goodnight everyone. Sleep well.
Does anyone here enjoy avant-garde jazz? I suppose we could attempt to discuss that if anyone fancies.
Australia is considering following the lead of Britain and other European nations in demanding that Internet Providers maintain a record of all their customers activities for a period of up to 10 years.
In Britain the law demands that Internet Providers maintain records for a period of 6 years, other nations demand records from between 6 months and 2 years. To them the issue of retrieving those records is as simple as a warrant. the user need not be informed that he/she is been looked at.
I think this is a serious breach of our privacy and that it runs along the lines of a government demanding to know what books we read.
What do you guys think of this?
Sir Willard White
I saw him in this role at Glyndbourne in the late 80’s. Eighteen months ago he gave concert in a local church to celebrate the anniversary of the abolition of slavery. Afterwards, I mentioned my trip to see him at Glyndbourne, and he was staggered that I remembered – how could one forget that voice?
What might have been had the Romans developed the steam engine? By the late 3rd century AD, all of the essential elements for constructing a steam engine were known to Roman engineers: steam power – Hero’s aeolipile, the crank and connecting rod mechanism in the sawmills and marble quarries, the cylinder and piston in metal force pumps, non-return valves in water pumps and gearing in water mills and clocks. Suppose that the Roman Empire emerged, as it did, from the crisis of the third century with all its administrative and military institutions changed, bureaucratic, rigid, and constantly geared for war, with its capital no longer in Rome but in Constantinople – and with steam power. (Such a development might have occurred not in Italy, but in the Eastern Empire – the stirrup was first put into wide use there, and reserves of coal and other minerals are available without deep mining in, for example, Dacia, Moesia and Thracia – present-day Romania and Bulgaria.)
As I write this blog Australia is losing 4-0 against Germany, they are playing so bad they are making Germany look like the team of the century.
God, please forgive me, kill the Germans and curse the Aussie Coach.
BOOM ………… Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhh 😦
Val’s ‘Uninvited Guest’ post sent me scurrying to my ‘Eagle’ annuals. I was fairly sure that one of them described how what were called the Romany people in those long-gone and innocent days cooked their hedgehogs.
Could not find a reference so it must have been in one of the weekly comics rather than in an annual. I then. of course, spent a pleasant half hour browsing through said annuals and came across something that will sort the men of a certain age from the boys.
Number 6 contained this:-
Now, it had been filled in and not in my hand but my father’s. I rather suspect that it was the same thing as happened with the train set and that my Dad played with the annual before I got it from Santa, but I don’t remember.
So, I’ve rubbed out the answers as best I can to give you all a go. Don’t worry, I’ve got plenty of other stuff in his handwriting and this was not a blind-raged piece of vandalism occasioned by the severe trauma which his actions should have engendered in me. At least I don’t think it was.
Enjoy!
Puzzle as solved up to Comment 40
Boadicea's Chariot 
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