lol Moonie @YogiDucky.
No webbed feet just yet, El.
Summer, the rockery is coming along a treat.
I notice Bramble was having a nosey.
Joe, I hate those yoyo days with the washing. Did you manage to get it dried?
Forgot to add, I'm in the CBB thread.
Goodnight and sweet dreams everyone
Sweet dreams everyone 
I hope bb was good yogi
joe, did you burns more calories yoyo laundry-Ing? Or cycling?!
night yogi and summer
Good morning 
sunny and bright here but I do think the early morning winds have an autumnal feel about them. It makes me quite excited!
Haha El 
luckily she's not a digger, but she seems to enjoy sniffing out the woodlice. She doesn't eat them or anything, but she loves finding them
I hope you all slept well and will have a lovely day. My colleague is on holiday so I'm working solo today, but I will pop in when I can
Good morning everyone, again grey skies this morning, definitely not what the forecast was earlier on in the week. Makes you wonder what all the Met Office's super duper computers are there for! Think I'll go back to the seaweed
I hope your customers are pleasant and don't come all at once Summer.
Enjoy your day everyone
Squiggle, I think weather forecasts are little more than educated guesswork and very prone to error, such is the complexity of the weather systems.
Met Office page on their accuracy record:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ab...o/accuracy/forecasts
The go ahead given for the first commercial exploration of the moon late 2017.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36970326
What has been a standard of science fiction for a long time (since Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon in 1865) is about to become reality. Until now, it's been done by government organisations.
El Loro posted:The go ahead given for the first commercial exploration of the moon late 2017.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36970326What has been a standard of science fiction for a long time (since Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon in 1865) is about to become reality. Until now, it's been done by government organisations.
I don't want anyone exploring me, commercial or not 
Sad news today that my local city councillor has died.
http://www.gloucestershirelive...44-detail/story.html
I knew him quite well as he was a regular at our church and I had known that he had been seriously ill for the last year. Far too soon to know any details of his funeral but I think it more likely to be at the cathedral rather than at the church due to capacity.
Moonie posted:El Loro posted:The go ahead given for the first commercial exploration of the moon late 2017.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36970326What has been a standard of science fiction for a long time (since Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon in 1865) is about to become reality. Until now, it's been done by government organisations.
I don't want anyone exploring me, commercial or not
You could email a complaint to Larry Scott 
http://www.faa.gov/about/offic...uarters_offices/ast/
Moonie posted:El Loro posted:The go ahead given for the first commercial exploration of the moon late 2017.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36970326What has been a standard of science fiction for a long time (since Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon in 1865) is about to become reality. Until now, it's been done by government organisations.
I don't want anyone exploring me, commercial or not
!
El Loro posted:Sad news today that my local city councillor has died.
http://www.gloucestershirelive...44-detail/story.htmlI knew him quite well as he was a regular at our church and I had known that he had been seriously ill for the last year. Far too soon to know any details of his funeral but I think it more likely to be at the cathedral rather than at the church due to capacity.
That's very sad news 
Afternoon all
One minute it's sunny and the next it is threatening to rain.
El, your councillor seemed to have given a lot in the service of his community. May he rest in peace.
Squiggle, I think you'd be better off with the seaweed.
Summer, I hope you aren't run off your feet.
Moonie, I can understand why you don't want to be explored.
Have a good day everyone.
El Loro posted:Sad news today that my local city councillor has died.
http://www.gloucestershirelive...44-detail/story.htmlI knew him quite well as he was a regular at our church and I had known that he had been seriously ill for the last year. Far too soon to know any details of his funeral but I think it more likely to be at the cathedral rather than at the church due to capacity.
That very sad El
El Loro posted:Moonie posted:El Loro posted:The go ahead given for the first commercial exploration of the moon late 2017.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36970326What has been a standard of science fiction for a long time (since Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon in 1865) is about to become reality. Until now, it's been done by government organisations.
I don't want anyone exploring me, commercial or not
You could email a complaint to Larry Scott
http://www.faa.gov/about/offic...uarters_offices/ast/
*gets email off straight away*
Yogi19 posted:Afternoon all
One minute it's sunny and the next it is threatening to rain.
El, your councillor seemed to have given a lot in the service of his community. May he rest in peace.
Squiggle, I think you'd be better off with the seaweed.
Summer, I hope you aren't run off your feet.
Moonie, I can understand why you don't want to be explored.
Have a good day everyone.
Hi Yogi
We have had only a few spots of rain here so far but the heavier variety is forecast for later
One line of washing dried. One washer full in now
Fankoo
Have a good afternoon Yogi and everyone and Sweet, don't work to hard
Moonie, I hope you don't get heavy water raining on you. Deuterium oxide, although not radioactive, would increase your circadian cycles, but protium oxide wouldn't. 
(in plain English, deuterium oxide is heavy water, and deuterium is a heavier type of hydrogen compared to the ordinary type which is called protium. Protium oxide is pure water. Circadian cycles are the body clock cycles controlling things such as your sleep cycle)
One learns something everyday!
I was aware of deuterium and tritium oxides, heavy and super heavy water, but was unaware of the term protium.
El Loro posted:Moonie, I hope you don't get heavy water raining on you. Deuterium oxide, although not radioactive, would increase your circadian cycles, but protium oxide wouldn't.
(in plain English, deuterium oxide is heavy water, and deuterium is a heavier type of hydrogen compared to the ordinary type which is called protium. Protium oxide is pure water. Circadian cycles are the body clock cycles controlling things such as your sleep cycle)
Glad you put it into plain English El
El Loro posted:And in "The Mouse that Roared" satirical novel they gave the name quadrium to the fourth isotope of hydrogen
The writer of that novel was incorrect in calling it quadrium. Strictly it should be called tetartoium. Prot, deuter and trit are the Greek ordinal suffixes for first, second and third followed by tetarto for fourth. Quad comes from the Latin for 4. Leonard Wibberley had a wobberley
El Loro posted:El Loro posted:And in "The Mouse that Roared" satirical novel they gave the name quadrium to the fourth isotope of hydrogen
The writer of that novel was incorrect in calling it quadrium. Strictly it should be called tetartoium. Prot, deuter and trit are the Greek ordinal suffixes for first, second and third followed by tetarto for fourth. Quad comes from the Latin for 4. Leonard Wibberley had a wobberley
Evening all. Getting ready for CBB. Wonder what delights await us tonight?
Evening night owls I'm in the CBB thread too
I see that El-cyclopedia has been doing what he does best 
velvet donkey posted:Evening Yogi
Hope all is okay with the squad
Yep...I'm hoping for some friction
Hi Velvet
All is well, thanks. Hope all is well with you?
lol You certainly got your wish.
~Sweet Summer~ posted:Evening night owls
I see that El-cyclopedia has been doing what he does best
El is our wise owl.
Got to be up early tomorrow for a delivery and then it's a PB day, so I better say goodnight and sweet dreams Velvet, Summer and Ros.
velvet donkey posted:Off to watch the news with the gaffer for a bit. Noite all
I thought yogi had written that! Lol
sweet dreams velvet & yogi, and leaving goidnight hugs for moonie & Ros
night yogi summer moonsie velvet
Good morning everyone, still grey skies and a stiff wind. It looks like we might get a little sun tomorrow afternoon but apart from that the forecast is cloudy.
I hope your parcel arrives early Yogi and that you have a great day with PB.
Enjoy your day everyone
Following on from yesterday's quadrium, there have been other fictional elements, the best known probably are mithril from Lord of the Rings (and since in other fictional material) and dilithium from Star Trek.
Then there's the element called phlogiston. But that's not fictional. For over 100 years that was thought to be a real element. Any material which could be burned contained phlogiston and that was released in flames on burning. The air didn't catch fire because the phlogiston was absorbed by plants. Eventually scientists realised that there was no such thing.
Today marks the end of an era. With the closure of the London office of the Sunday Post, the last journalists who have been based in Fleet Street leave.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36882573
But its address of 185 Fleet Street will remain known as it was the address of a certain famous fictional barber.