Weather query ....

Noticed an odd thing about the Brits and weather: when it's hot we measure the temperature in Fahrenheit (its above 80 or phew its almost 90!!) but when its cold we measure the temperature in celsius. Yesterday it was -12C near here but nobody,anywhere referred to the temp as 10F ...

The Yanks are not the guardians of the world's morality

I have been reading the American's reaction to the Aussie KFC advert (it has been pulled) which show a lone Aussie fan surrounded by exuberant West Indies supporter at a cricket match, and he feels a little bit overwhelmed by them. In order to ease the relationships he offers the Windies fans some KFC. Now I am perfectly aware that fried chicken (for historical reasons) has strong racial overtones in the Southern States but for Christ sake: this was an Aussie advert for Australians. The West Indies do not have the same level of racial baggage that exists in the States (that is not to say all was sweetness and light - the slave trade to the W. Indies was an abomination) but it really annoys me when the US attempts to impose its own morals on the rest of the world.

Part of the problem is that the US doesn't get cricket ....

Happy New Year

May I wish everyone a very happy 2010 ....

Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament

Why on earth (well not quite given that there is a space ship there as well) has Google got the symbol of the CND on its logo today?











Happy Christmas

Harvesting potatoes

Lets have some late harvest potatoes, she said a few months ago. Planted some seed potatoes in a number of potato bags and let them grow.

Now the idea was that we would have lovely new potatoes for Christmas dinner; however there was one slight hitch when I came to harvest them this morning ... the bags and the compost were frozen solid!

Anyone harvested potatoes with a sledgehammer before?

0101 days to go ...

My nerdish son has a Christmas countdown ... In binary ....


Sad

Anarchy in the UK ...

So the great British public said "we will not go quietly into the X-Factor night" and have done a huge V sign to the mass-produced sterile "music" that emanates from the Cowell factory - he who considers that he has a God given right to monopolise the Christmas charts. I downloaded a copy, not because I especially like "Killing In The Name" but because I wanted to register my views. One thing though - I thought that it was the young who railed against the world - not old farts like me ....