Now that is a sensible idea.
OMG that is awful - poor woman - made the house unliveable for anybody
Yes, hopefully we are all back tomorrow.
I had no dinner tonight, as I had a late lunch and wasn't hungry. I'm starving now and hubby has offered to make me a crispy bacon sandwich - that's his idea of romance, it always involves food!
Anyway, I'll get off now and eat my sandwich. Goodnight and sweet dreams, Summer. 
Hugs for Ros and Moonie.
night yogi and summer
Good morning everyone 
Must have been one of the windiest night here in years. I suspect there must be quite a lot of damage. One of my fence panels in the back garden blew down and is damaged. At a quick look, that's the only the only casualty. As it happens I had already arranged for someone (a client of mine) to come here in the next few days to paint the fences so he will be able to sort that out.
Still quite windy and will be showery here. There don't seem to be any additional road closures which affect me.
Good morning everyone. It is raining and most of the snow has been washed away.
I'm glad the fence panel was the only damage, El, and that you can get it repaired soon.
Squiggle, I hope all is well with you.
As far as I know, we aren't having any visitors today, so hubby and I might go out and about. A garden centre visit might be on the cards.
Have a good day, everyone.
Good morning everyone. What a simply dreadful night, the wind never let up for one second all night long and it is still very windy. There is something banging outside so I think it might have damaged a section of fascia, I will have to have it looked at. It was very difficult to sleep so I feel washed out this morning. EL I am glad that there was no further damage and that you are able to sort it speedily.
This weather has been so widespread too from the tip of Cornwall all the way up to Hampshire and with damage reported in London. I haven't heard about Essex and Suffolk and I hope Joyron is OK. I know people were trapped in a beach cafÃĐ in Milford On Sea, it's amazing that there has not been more loss of life. Although I know of an 85 year old man killed when a giant wave hit the Marco Polo cruise ship (I feel for anyone who was out at sea yesterday night) and I know a lady was crushed in her car by falling masonry in Holborn.
So look after yourselves today everyone, and be safe
Makes you think, it's a bit American but so true
Being Green
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."
The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment f or
future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were truely recycled.
But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.
But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.
But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.
But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person.
Squiggle, I hope that you don't find anything badly damaged outside and, like you, that Joyron is OK.
That Being Green article is interesting though I'm sure that quite a lot of the older generation are still conscientious when it comes to recycling and re-using things.
It probably won't mean much to many of us but I find this BBC article on how some mathematical formulae can almost be beautiful quite interesting.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scie...environment-26151062
The mathematicians came to the conclusion that this formula was the top. And ever since I did maths A level I have agreed.
e (which starts off with 2.71828) is the basis of natural logarithms and pi (3.1459) are the 2 most famous and important mathematical constants and i is the square root of -1. And it is amazing that the 3 can be put together in such a simple formula. If you had a scientific calculator you could see for yourself.
EL do you find, as a Christian, that there is something about mathematics that hints at a precision in this world which speaks of God the Creator? I get the feeling that the more we uncover of the world - I am thinking of those flowers discovered in a remote mountainous region which have the faces of monkeys - the more we see brought to life before our eyes this text Romans 1:20
For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:
Squiggle, yes I do. Just think of what are called Fibonacci numbers and how they feature in nature. Fibonacci numbers are the sequence where the next number in the sequence is the sum of the two previous numbers. So it starts with 1, 2, 3 (1+2), 5 (2+3), 8 (3+5), 13 (5+8) and so on. I've posted about this before about the number of hard segments in any row on the outside of a pineapple. Or the number of petals on a daisy is a Fibonacci number.
Then there's sunflowers.
The head shows spirals going from the centre outwards, some curving clockwise, others anti-clockwise. If you counted the number of clockwise spirals you would get one Fibonacci number, and a different Fibonacci number for the anti-clockwise spirals. The same applies to the outer segments on any pinecone.
European Court of Justice has made a sensible decision in that it's legal to make links in websites to free web content on other sites without breaching copyright.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26187730
That's just as well otherwise my link above would be breaking the law
Squiggle, yes I do. Just think of what are called Fibonacci numbers and how they feature in nature. Fibonacci numbers are the sequence where the next number in the sequence is the sum of the two previous numbers. So it starts with 1, 2, 3 (1+2), 5 (2+3), 8 (3+5), 13 (5+8) and so on. I've posted about this before about the number of hard segments in any row on the outside of a pineapple. Or the number of petals on a daisy is a Fibonacci number.
Then there's sunflowers.
The head shows spirals going from the centre outwards, some curving clockwise, others anti-clockwise. If you counted the number of clockwise spirals you would get one Fibonacci number, and a different Fibonacci number for the anti-clockwise spirals. The same applies to the outer segments on any pinecone.
It's all fascinating isn't it, and of course it all goes to demonstrate the absolute truth of what I quoted above. Quite thrilling really 
European Court of Justice has made a sensible decision in that it's legal to make links in websites to free web content on other sites without breaching copyright.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26187730
That's just as well otherwise my link above would be breaking the law
A sensible decision from the European Court of Justice? Well that just goes to prove the old saying, it's the exception that proves the rule 
I just watched Arthur Christmas, lovely
Amazing!
European Court of Justice has made a sensible decision in that it's legal to make links in websites to free web content on other sites without breaching copyright.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26187730
That's just as well otherwise my link above would be breaking the law
A sensible decision from the European Court of Justice? Well that just goes to prove the old saying, it's the exception that proves the rule
Though the media do tend to highlight ECJ rulings which go against the popular view rather than the ones that make sense. They do love bad news stories rather than good news stories.
Amazing!
Strange but beautiful!
how's everyone been today? I hope tonight is calmer tooHi Summer, have you had a good day?
yes I have thank you, my newer colleague is just so easy and nice to work with that the day flies by! We're all going out for dinner & cocktails next weekend so we can spend time together without having interruptions or work to do yes I have thank you, my newer colleague is just so easy and nice to work with that the day flies by! We're all going out for dinner & cocktails next weekend so we can spend time together without having interruptions or work to do That's great, Summer. It's so nice when you have good working relationships, it makes the atmosphere so much better.
My day was good. I made a pact with hubby. If he came with me to the garden centre, I would go with him to the charity shops. I actually found a Stephen Fry book in the charity shop and he bought it for me.
I went to get wild bird seed and I also got a book for someone.
No, you haven't told me about your accidental holly bush. Tell me more.
No problem, I was in The Voice thread.
I love fillet steak! We had lamb chops - they were lovely.
Emma is good on The Voice.
Tell me about the accidental holly bush.
again I didn't expect much from it but I secured the base with extra soil to protect it from harsh weather and left it. It's now about 3-4 inches tall and has twice as many leaves sprouting from it! again I didn't expect much from it but I secured the base with extra soil to protect it from harsh weather and left it. It's now about 3-4 inches tall and has twice as many leaves sprouting from it!That's brilliant. I love when things self seed and you get plants for nothing.
I've got a cutting from a holly bush my dad gave me. It's nearly three feet tall but it's still in a tub. I must transplant it into the garden this year.
The one my dad gave me was about a foot tall. It has survived gales, hale and snow.
it sounds daft but I feel quite protective of it 
it sounds daft but I feel quite protective of it I know what you mean.
No, no Moonie again today.
I hope not. Maybe he is just having a few days off?
Fingers crossed he is back soon.
