Decorations
Nov
01
2011
01
2011
It’s the first of November and I have just been dodging step ladders in the Co-Op while they put up their Christmas decorations. It’s 54 days until Christmas and way too early for decorations. I love Christmas just not early decorations.. December is early enough.
The Way
Oct
01
2011
01
2011
Follow the Way. There is only one Way. Do not deviate from the Way, this leads to distractions and the wrong way. The Path is the Way. Knowing the Path is not the same as walking the Path.
Camping
Aug
21
2011
21
2011
Nothing better than camping with open fires. We’ve been lucky this year, finding two great campsites that allow open fires. Both farms, both very friendly and both selling their own produce for us to savour. Both we will visit again. I will add both websites to my links and link them here once home, I’m writing this while the sun sets and cooking some veggie skewers by the campfire. It’s great to see all the families here with children enjoying the outdoors, playing in the woods, and enjoying cooking marshmallows. We had a wonderful week, and wonderful evenings sitting by … Read on
SPAM – SPAM – Comments – SPAM
Jul
18
2011
18
2011
SPAM is everywhere now. I even get SPAM comments to this blog. Now some of these comments try and hide themselves as normal comments, just adding an url or a quick line for a service/product to buy. Some are little more clever and look nearly like a real comment so the comment is approved and next time around their comments (the real SPAM may be automatically approved). Now this more intelligent SPAM make some nice or amusing comments (to the post) so I thought I would share. So if you see a comment from ‘SPAM Post’ that is what it … Read on
Lot’s of changes
Jun
17
2011
17
2011
I have made a lot of changes over the last couple of weeks. The website needed a new home so this was a good chance to give it a new look and update and rewrite a lot of the old bits and pieces. Lots to load back up to the site, which will appear over the next week (or two). The theme for the site has been crafted by me, the colours chosen by the wife (it could have looked ghastly if left to me). There will also be some new stuff appearing soon, as well as some old stuff … Read on
More Pond Life
Apr
25
2011
25
2011
Once spring arrived work on the ponds has progressed to the point where I can now say they are done. The Wildlife Pond This pond was really completed last year but the wifey has added her touch, I do the hard work and Hannah adds the finishing touches. We now have a variety of plants around and in the pond as well as snails, newts, mussells and tadpoles living in the pond as well as a variety of wildlife living on top of the water. The Fish Pond The fish pond was a lot more work than … Read on
Mobile Blogging
Apr
24
2011
24
2011
Just found a nice little application for my phone which now means I can add pointless blogs like this one wherever I am.
Beer and Ice Cream Diet
Jan
25
2011
25
2011
I stumbled across this at http://astro.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/thermal/tpteacher/jokes/icecream.html, a diet that is much more realistic to keep to. As we all know, it takes 1 calorie to heat 1 gram of water 1 degree centigrade. Translated into meaningful terms, this means that if you eat a very cold dessert (generally consisting of water in large part), the natural processes which raise the consumed dessert to body temperature during the digestive cycle literally sucks the calories out of the only available source, your body fat. For example, a dessert served and eaten at near 0 degrees C (32.2 deg. F) will in a … Read on
Pond Life
Oct
07
2010
07
2010
This is the first post that shows how our garden has ‘grown’ over the time we have been working on it. The BIG feature of the garden was the pond. We knew the pond had been neglected by the previous owners of the house and had been told there was no life in the pond, except the abundance of lily. The plan was to ‘shrink’ the pond and turn it into a wildlife pond and hopefully attract some frogs and newts. A problem soon arose, the pond was not empty. It already had fish, frogs and newts living in it! … Read on
Website A – Z
Sep
13
2010
13
2010
After writing the post for the Google Instant A to Z and noticing quite a few of the sites I visit on the list I thought it was time I wrote my own A to Z. So here it is. A is for Amazon Books and mp3s. Amazon is a delight to use, not always the cheapest for books, especially specialist ones. The site is easy to use and as used by many you can often find a variety of reviews on the books you are looking at. I like the fact it remembers what I have brought so knows … Read on