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Snow clouds
Dusted.
Monday, 21 February 2005
Tiny white
We awoke this morning, after promises all weekend of disruptive falls of snow, to a tiny white dusting, a little more fell soon after but for now that seems to be it. Further East a few inches fell overnight and the forecasters are promising it's heading this way! Chickens are not being counted but fingers are crossed for the promised white-out and perhaps even some snow pictures of a more impressive nature!
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Snow clouds
Dusted.
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Snow clouds
Dusted.
Sunday, 20 February 2005
Saturday, 19 February 2005
More mishaps
Incredibly my place of work suffered yet more out of the ordinary happenings yesterday, I'm beginning to feel like the place is jinxed right now. Nothing happens year after year here and then suddenly in two days it's one thing after another.
So yesterday the first incident resulted in a posse of armed police officers making a rapid attendance, hell, I didn't even know we had armed officers so readily available in this quiet backwater, thankfully this incident was a false alarm and the result of someone hitting an alarm in error. The second incident involved a guy who wandered into the store, a foreign national with limited English, who had apparently been beaten in the car park. The details where unclear but again the attendance of the police was necessary and the poor guy left with them some time later.
Nothing and I mean nothing of any note ever happens here, in comparison to retail life in the city we are rarely even subjected to the standard interests of shoplifters and the consequent hoo ha that accompanies them, we don't get brawls, stolen vehicles or robberies and suddenly in two days the place has turned 'pear shaped'
With luck and a prevailing wind, today things will return to their normal state of sleepy seaside town!
So yesterday the first incident resulted in a posse of armed police officers making a rapid attendance, hell, I didn't even know we had armed officers so readily available in this quiet backwater, thankfully this incident was a false alarm and the result of someone hitting an alarm in error. The second incident involved a guy who wandered into the store, a foreign national with limited English, who had apparently been beaten in the car park. The details where unclear but again the attendance of the police was necessary and the poor guy left with them some time later.
Nothing and I mean nothing of any note ever happens here, in comparison to retail life in the city we are rarely even subjected to the standard interests of shoplifters and the consequent hoo ha that accompanies them, we don't get brawls, stolen vehicles or robberies and suddenly in two days the place has turned 'pear shaped'
With luck and a prevailing wind, today things will return to their normal state of sleepy seaside town!
Friday, 18 February 2005
Friday's feast (36)
Appetizer - Name 2 things you do that you consider beneficial to your health.
Does eating chocolate count? Well it does release endorphines and makes me happy so that has to be good for me! .......aside from that most other things I do are probably bad for me.
Soup - If you made a New Year's resolution, how's it going so far?
I only made one, to blog every day this year, thus far I'm on 100% but it hardly rates with giving up smoking etc. now does it?
Salad - Name something that has happened lately that bothers you.
The disappearance in Hull of Joanne Nelson.
Main Course - What is your favorite quote, and who said it?
"The pursuit of happiness is the greatest cause of unhappiness ~ Anon"
Dessert - What do you collect?
Clocks but only in a small way, some may say husbands!
Does eating chocolate count? Well it does release endorphines and makes me happy so that has to be good for me! .......aside from that most other things I do are probably bad for me.
Soup - If you made a New Year's resolution, how's it going so far?
I only made one, to blog every day this year, thus far I'm on 100% but it hardly rates with giving up smoking etc. now does it?
Salad - Name something that has happened lately that bothers you.
The disappearance in Hull of Joanne Nelson.
Main Course - What is your favorite quote, and who said it?
"The pursuit of happiness is the greatest cause of unhappiness ~ Anon"
Dessert - What do you collect?
Clocks but only in a small way, some may say husbands!
Dancing blue footed boobies
This cheerful, amusing picture appeared before my eyes this morning and made me smile. As someone with a passion for birds it was a happy start to my Friday and I couldn't resist sharing it despite probable copyright infringement...... no risk is to great for you, my loyal reader(s) :o)
Dancing blue footed boobies. ©De Roy / Minden Pictures
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(No obvious quips please, their name is not my responsibility)
Dancing blue footed boobies. ©De Roy / Minden Pictures
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(No obvious quips please, their name is not my responsibility)
Late shifts, my favorite....NOT!
Today and Saturday I am on a 'late shift', gah.....I hate it. I'm not one that enjoys lying in in the morning so that's no treat and the early part of the day I just seem to spend clock watching waiting for the appointed hour at which I must drag myself gleefully work-ward. Having completed said shift and arrived home somewhere close to bed time it takes me far too long to unwind, I can't sleep and the following day is generally a haze of tiredness. Roll on Monday and my next day off!
On the up side the weather is progressing thus far in the direction it is is forecast it should for my hoped for snow. The atmospheric pressure is dropping nicely, the wind direction has changed to that which is required and it's speed has picked up appropriately. Maybe this weekend won't be so bad. :o)
On the up side the weather is progressing thus far in the direction it is is forecast it should for my hoped for snow. The atmospheric pressure is dropping nicely, the wind direction has changed to that which is required and it's speed has picked up appropriately. Maybe this weekend won't be so bad. :o)
Thursday, 17 February 2005
Hells bells and little fishes!
What an horrendous day today was, one disaster after another, you couldn't make it up!
Last night a member of the night shift was admitted to hospital having been taken very ill and still remains there. This morning one of the guys working on the rebuild cut his head badly and presented himself to me requesting first aid..... looking decidedly pale-faced and dripping the scary red stuff. The afternoon bought a more serious incident in which a colleague only narrowly missed being seriously injured when fixtures carrying extremely heavy stock collapsed, thankfully fork lift trucks have a heavy duty cage protecting the operator and in this case it did just that!
Latterly a customer reported a car on fire in the car park, upon investigation it turned out to be a brake caliper seized to the disc but the car was no longer fit to drive and so consequently we had to arrange a rescue service. What amazed me was how the owner had driven 30 miles and never noticed her wheel smoking, the smell nor the fact that it had become so hot the wheel trim had melted, let alone the pull on the brakes it must have resulted in!!!! And this lady has a driving licence????
I hasten to add (she says looking over her shoulder and winking at Michelle) none of these incidents was the fault of my employer. Paranoid? What me?
The day ended with my hitting a pheasant while driving home. I don't know if I killed it, it flew off but it hit hard and the thought that it might have a painful end is worse than knowing it died immediately :o(
Gah....I need chocolate and sleep!
Last night a member of the night shift was admitted to hospital having been taken very ill and still remains there. This morning one of the guys working on the rebuild cut his head badly and presented himself to me requesting first aid..... looking decidedly pale-faced and dripping the scary red stuff. The afternoon bought a more serious incident in which a colleague only narrowly missed being seriously injured when fixtures carrying extremely heavy stock collapsed, thankfully fork lift trucks have a heavy duty cage protecting the operator and in this case it did just that!
Latterly a customer reported a car on fire in the car park, upon investigation it turned out to be a brake caliper seized to the disc but the car was no longer fit to drive and so consequently we had to arrange a rescue service. What amazed me was how the owner had driven 30 miles and never noticed her wheel smoking, the smell nor the fact that it had become so hot the wheel trim had melted, let alone the pull on the brakes it must have resulted in!!!! And this lady has a driving licence????
I hasten to add (she says looking over her shoulder and winking at Michelle) none of these incidents was the fault of my employer. Paranoid? What me?
The day ended with my hitting a pheasant while driving home. I don't know if I killed it, it flew off but it hit hard and the thought that it might have a painful end is worse than knowing it died immediately :o(
Gah....I need chocolate and sleep!
Wednesday, 16 February 2005
I may not have snow....
....but I have friends in the blogosphere doing their damnedest to alleviate my snow 'shortfall'!
For me these pictures are virtually (no pun intended) impossible to imagine. I don't recall seeing snow like this since I was a child and believe me that was some time ago. This snow fell in just an hour this morning in New York and Just Jade kindly thought of me, braved the flakes, took some pictures and emailed them to me before the snow had even stopped falling.........can you believe......all this in just an hour!!! Heaven.
New York today
Not long after Jennifer left me a gift on her blog.....more of the beautiful white stuff I so long for, hers too fell quickly, clear last night and a stunning white covering when she woke this morning!
A big thank you to the both of you, it seems I am not completely snowless after all :o)
New York 16.02.05
I hasten to add, though of course as I mentioned a few days ago I am not any longer looking at the forecasts, I, er..... happened to notice after I received Jade's mail that there is a 30% possibility of snow here over the next 9 days. Well, given that rumour has it we get a few days later, what New York has now, it would have been rude not to check!
For me these pictures are virtually (no pun intended) impossible to imagine. I don't recall seeing snow like this since I was a child and believe me that was some time ago. This snow fell in just an hour this morning in New York and Just Jade kindly thought of me, braved the flakes, took some pictures and emailed them to me before the snow had even stopped falling.........can you believe......all this in just an hour!!! Heaven.
New York today
Not long after Jennifer left me a gift on her blog.....more of the beautiful white stuff I so long for, hers too fell quickly, clear last night and a stunning white covering when she woke this morning!
A big thank you to the both of you, it seems I am not completely snowless after all :o)
New York 16.02.05
I hasten to add, though of course as I mentioned a few days ago I am not any longer looking at the forecasts, I, er..... happened to notice after I received Jade's mail that there is a 30% possibility of snow here over the next 9 days. Well, given that rumour has it we get a few days later, what New York has now, it would have been rude not to check!
A worrying thought
An extremely concerning realisation came to mind this morning regarding this unusually mild winter that we in the UK are experiencing. Those among you who are glad of it, nay relish it and pray not for snow and sub zero temperatures might like to consider this:
Without the bone chilling, sustained freezing temperatures of years gone by the arachnid population thrives. Come spring there will be many, abnormally few, courtesy of a cold winter, having passed to the great spider's web in the sky and worse still, much much worse,......come September-ish time and 'spider season,' having had far more time to mature than they deserve, the specimens creeping and crawling around your home will be of gargantuan proportions. Forget the glass and piece of paper for spider trapping activities, you're gonna need a bucket and paving slab for these mothers!!!
Without the bone chilling, sustained freezing temperatures of years gone by the arachnid population thrives. Come spring there will be many, abnormally few, courtesy of a cold winter, having passed to the great spider's web in the sky and worse still, much much worse,......come September-ish time and 'spider season,' having had far more time to mature than they deserve, the specimens creeping and crawling around your home will be of gargantuan proportions. Forget the glass and piece of paper for spider trapping activities, you're gonna need a bucket and paving slab for these mothers!!!
Tuesday, 15 February 2005
Jackson ill?
So Michael Jackson has been rushed from court to hospital apparently 'very very ill'.
Forgive my scepticism here but it all seems very convenient. I may be forced to eat my hat on this one but we'll see, I have a feeling his entourages definition of very very ill may well not be that same as yours or mine.
Forgive my scepticism here but it all seems very convenient. I may be forced to eat my hat on this one but we'll see, I have a feeling his entourages definition of very very ill may well not be that same as yours or mine.
Siesta anyone?
I have to get out of this habit!
Of late I seem to have adopted the Mediterranean habit of taking a 'siesta' somewhere around about mid afternoon, at least I had until I began this working lark again and still have a tendency toward it on my days off. My excuse of course is that the body's natural sleep rhythm would dictate such a siesta if given its head, what the body's natural rhythm of course does not dictate is that one stays up and surfing the internet until 2 or 3am most mornings! That of course is the real reason I have adopted this strange pattern of sleep!
PG can happily go for 48 hours without sleep and apparently with no ill effect, though of course he rarely has cause to.....me? most nights I promise myself an earlier night but get engrossed in something and then don't crawl off to bed until stupid o'clock, unless I have work the following morning.
No matter I hear you say, I have no children, my odd sleeping habits affect no one but they do! I wake up, 'post' siesta, feeling like absolute crap. Maybe the body's natural sleep patterns in the UK are not supposed to include mid afternoon.
It has to stop, I must show some self discipline!
Of late I seem to have adopted the Mediterranean habit of taking a 'siesta' somewhere around about mid afternoon, at least I had until I began this working lark again and still have a tendency toward it on my days off. My excuse of course is that the body's natural sleep rhythm would dictate such a siesta if given its head, what the body's natural rhythm of course does not dictate is that one stays up and surfing the internet until 2 or 3am most mornings! That of course is the real reason I have adopted this strange pattern of sleep!
PG can happily go for 48 hours without sleep and apparently with no ill effect, though of course he rarely has cause to.....me? most nights I promise myself an earlier night but get engrossed in something and then don't crawl off to bed until stupid o'clock, unless I have work the following morning.
No matter I hear you say, I have no children, my odd sleeping habits affect no one but they do! I wake up, 'post' siesta, feeling like absolute crap. Maybe the body's natural sleep patterns in the UK are not supposed to include mid afternoon.
It has to stop, I must show some self discipline!
Contrary creature
'Small cat' in the normal vein of cat behaviour has a tendency to nervousness, make a loud noise, move too quickly or ring the door bell and she jumps out of her little furry jacket and instantly adopts the 'red alert' cat position of stretched neck and forward facing whiskers and ears. Not so it seems where the vacuum cleaner is concerned.
She has utter disdain for the usual grooming procedures involving brush and comb and wriggles unendingly offering teeth and claws in resistance......but point the vacuum cleaner in her direction and she immediately puts her head down and her rear in the air, a position in cat behaviour normally reserved for more base activities, and will happily be 'vacuum groomed' for as long as the pleasure is on offer!
Cat-vac
She has utter disdain for the usual grooming procedures involving brush and comb and wriggles unendingly offering teeth and claws in resistance......but point the vacuum cleaner in her direction and she immediately puts her head down and her rear in the air, a position in cat behaviour normally reserved for more base activities, and will happily be 'vacuum groomed' for as long as the pleasure is on offer!
Cat-vac
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