Hi Gangue
Yesterday and to-day absolutely glorious weather here in Edinburgh.
Temperature up at 21 degrees, about 68 to 70 in real money (GRIN!).
Spent the day yesterday with a paint brush in hand slapping wood
preservative onto the front fence. The two or three beers helped pass
the time a bit as well!. There's something very satisfying about putting
on wood preserver, it's very therapeutic. You can almost hear the wood
of a rough sawn fence sighing and saying - -
"Oooooooh, That's good"
as it soaks up the preservative. Now we've got a "brand new" fence for a
few hours work and a can of preserver. It used to be creaosote, but that
seems to be just about banned in the UK because it's a bit (lots?)
toxicky.
In the afternoon, my two daughters appeared with family and barbecue
stuff. Burgers, steaks, sausages, chicken (and another couple of beers,
or three, or was it four?). BBQ dragged on till light started to go,
well it was such a lovely night. All in all a very satisfying and
pleasant day.
On the Foot and Mouth scene, we're down to single figures in confirmed
cases each day, so maybe it's on the run to the finish. Mind you, with
over 2.6M animals killed, it's going to take a bit of time to get back
to normal, that's for sure.
No luck with the Lottery, so I won't be visiting any of you this week.
What about the space tours man. Cost him loads of $ to go up into space.
In one breath its "good Luck to you" but in the other, I cant' help but
feel what would that amount of money done in the hands of one of the
Third World Aid agencies? Think of the Child Poverty it could have
helped. Or even Medical aid. OXFAM, one of the third world agencies here
in the UK has a TV advert where they say give a man a fish and you feed
him and his family for a day, give hime the fishing stuff and teach him
how to fish, and you feed him and his family for a lifetime. That "Space
Return" would have tauvhgt a lot of men to fish.
Sad news to hear of the death of Douglas Adams, the writer of
"Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" The sci-fi/cult scene has lost an
icon there. I shall re=read all the books over the years many times I
would think. If there's anyone on the list who is Scottish and into
cult sci-fi, try "But 'n Ben a GO-Go" This is a post holocaust tale
where only those countries with populated high ground have survived.
That makes two of the major world powers, Brazil and Scotland. If you
are Scottish, then it's superbly funny. If you're not a Scot, it's
written in Lallans/Braid (Scottish English) so nothing makes any sense
whatsoever, sorry. Unless you can guess what a "molly cyberjanny" is
you've got no chance! And one of the main caharacters is Paolo Broon.
Mr Blair (the Prime Minister) announced a General Election for June 7th.
Lock up your babies, politicians of all parties are out there looking
for photo opportunities and babies to kiss! I like the description from
one of my other lists.
"Politicians are like babies nappies (diapers in the colonies, GRIN),
they need changing on a regular basis, and for the same reasons, they're
full of ****"
This morning I've gone mad and cleaned the front tiles with the power
washer. This weather is definitely affecting me badly.
Take care guys 'n gals. Have you noticed, on the ladder of life, when
you look down, all you see are people below you looking up. But when you
look up, all you can see is the a**holes of those above you?
Noticed one or two saying goodbye and "moving on" from Arachne. My
http://www.arachne4dos.freeserve.co.uk site is still picking up
about 100 hits each week, and I still don't have time to update it much.
I could be thinking the same soon, although I don't really want to. Can
anyone in touch with Michael find out if rach4dos makes much of a
difference. I don't have tracking facilities to see if it's sending folk
for downloads or not?
Regards
Mel
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