Thanks for letting me get that off my chest yesterday, Dear Reader.  Sometimes ( Read more... )

A recent study has shown that plastics emit Greenhouse Gases when exposed to sunlight  Yay!  Not only do plastics last 'forever', breaking into smaller and smaller pieces, persisting in the environment and being mistaken by wildlife for food.  Thus, if wildlife doesn't get entangled in plastic waste and killed that way, they eat plastics and starve ( Read more... )

One, whatever various 'experts' or politicians might try to tell you, Climate Change is real and is affecting real people worldwide, even in the UK, Europe and the USA now!

Click to view

  Of course, it's affecting people in Africa, South and Central America, Asia and Oceania far more.  It has been affecting them for longer ( Read more... )

Did you hear David Cameron making his speech at the Paris Climate Summit?  I only heard a snippet, which was all about the importance of cutting greenhouse gas emissions and having something worthwhile to hand on to our children and grandchildren ( Read more... )

Turned out H's Exercise For Your Heart class yesterday was, it sounded, a bit like line dancing with added dumbells.  For one and a quarter hours, non-stop.  He'd walked up there first, 2 miles.  They suggested he get the bus back but when he wanted to catch one it had just gone and another wasn't due for at least half an hour.  As it's a 45 minute ( Read more... )

First thing - the Paul Hollywood recipe Lemon Drizzle Cake was a hit, light and crumbly inside, I used wholemeal flour as I often do, and well flavoured of lemon ( Read more... )

H has been alternately fighting and struggling with a bad cold this week.  It's had him sniffing all day (Aaaarrrggh!) and not sleeping the first few nights, which he spent downstairs upright on the settee so that he could breathe.  It's amazing, given the choice between being able to breathe and being able to sleep most people will choose ( Read more... )

Hot Air?

How to cut bovine flatulence?   Give them garlic.  Apparently the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (nice place) has discovered you can halve bovine flatulence by feeding cattle a certain amount of garlic (works for sheep too).  They're now researching how much also taints the meat (yum) & milk (garlic-flavoured tea, coffee, cocoa, ( Read more... )

All in the Same Boat

& the water is rising!

Apparently the US is holding out against certain parts of the G8 agreement on Climate Change (like actually having to do something about it?)  Link Here.

Good grief!  What planet do these Americans think they're on?  As Donne said, "no man is an island entire in itself".  If the world is ( Read more... )

Consequences

You know, that party game where you write something, fold the paper over & pass it on for the next person to write something.

Don't say I didn't try to warn you, Dear Readers, Vista has been demonstrated to have holes big enough to drive two double decker buses through some problems.  Get a Mac, or something running LInux.

( Read more... )