Stash it away where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt! ;)

is the visual latency a feature of utube, or dependent on my local bandwidth access? it's there on everything, but obviously much more noticeable on vids that this.

the audio more than made up for it, the beat subdivisions were almost tabla level.

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do." Jim Hightower

today was....interesting.

waking at 8 to greet the chimney sweep, i saw a fresh blanket of snow outside, so called him. he said that he could not make it over the pass between valleys, so would try and come when he could.

i decided to drive the car while i still could to the nearest public road, a mile and a half away, and leave it there.

walked back, enjoying the spectral sight of all the trees' filigree relief against the clouds.

meanwhile a neighbour, hearing of my plight, had offered to try and sort me out.

this is the downstairs woodstove, which runs the house radiators, heats the hot water, and bakes food, so 3 days with it not drawing was starting to get annoying, though the woodstove upstairs was cranking, making at least one room warm.

then the horse wagon came over to bring paddy back from the stables where he stayed while i was away. he made it ok. paddy, shaggy in his winter coat, ambled down the ramp, mellow as can be, and i led him to his stall.

the wagon got stuck turning around, and for 20 minutes he spun his wheels, and i pushed and tried various tricks to get him going. finally what worked was tugging him with the motocultivator!

as he receded into the white distance, i noticed he had punctured a water pipe, and it was squirting up into the air. luckily i had what i needed to repair it so got that done.

then my neighbour came over and we discovered that the problem was not so much in the chimney, but behind the oven, so we unscrewed that and cleaned out the gunk blocking the hole in the back that leads to the chimney.

that was sorted, and so i took a break and put some lunch in the oven, and awaited the water to heat.

soon that was accomplished, and yet the central heating was moribund, the water overheating and spouting out the emergency tube, but no luck with the radiators.

so now it's down to bleeding them, up and down emptying a big bucket...

by the time i ate it was 4.15, cruising on yesterday's nutrition all day, low maintenance compared to the house systems!

nice baked potato, some home grown borlotti beans in tomato-pepper sauce, and some baked broccoli with mushrooms and zucchini.

half an avo for clorophyll, and now after 45 minutes of bleeding the water is just starting to warm.

yay.

heads downstairs to empty the bucket again

now its almost hot.

all's well that ends well

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do." Jim Hightower

Ice shards rain down from turbine

A giant wind turbine near Peterborough has been switched off after its frozen blades threw off shards of ice -- many crashing into nearby homes.

The Cornwall Light and Power 80m (262ft) turbine was put up in August, near an industrial estate and close to homes in King's Dyke, Whittlesey.

But it was switched off when big chunks of ice started crashing into gardens on Saturday morning.

Cornwall Light and Power said it was investigating the incident.
Local resident Peter Randall said: "They (supporters of the turbine plan) said this will never happen, then we get shelled with ice."

Turbine expert John Stoneman, of Cambridgeshire Environmental Wildlife Protection, expressed concern at the incident.

"The blades revolve at 200mph and those ice shards become projectiles. They would certainly kill someone if they hit someone," he said.

in which case, pop them over to one side of your eye then squeeze your eyelids together and it should pop just off your eye

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

And too many of my friends have crashed out drunk with their contacts in which is supposedly bad even if none of them have had any real problem resulting.

keep to the Fen Causeway

# Do looks matter to you, when it comes to selecting a partner?
# Do you want to guarantee your dates will always be beautiful?
# No more filtering through unattractive people on mainstream sites

and my favorite (so far)

Too ugly to sign up?

Well, should I join? LOL

I love the smell of roast chicken in the morning!

Mmmmmm....think I'll make a veg/lentil curry later...

you are the media you consume.

No signs of similar epic fail in the UK, although if double-chinned Dave gets in and rates go up by five to ten percent, expect equivalent scenes.