Monthly Archives: Mar 2009

Nearly Over

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12°C, dry, some sun

Catkins: Willow I suspect.

Winter is just about over.
News Rant: A chocolate tax, phew it was voted out in Scotland. The News is a crazy place, stories of mad-men, idiots and destruction. Maybe I should ignore it.
New CD: Johnny Cash- Solitary Man

Danger: roadside flowers

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3-11°C, light SW wind, dry.

The flowers are going to kill you: BBC news.
They are to be banned because of some Health&Safety "issue". Issue means "problem" these days. What has not so far been made clear is what the mechanism is that links the presence of flowers by the roadside and a danger to passing traffic. If Memorial flowers are a risk to drivers somehow, are the flowers on roundabouts also a risk? Are flowers somehow drawing drivers from a safe path with their delicate colours and alluring scent? Some kind of modern landlocked Siren?
And a concern for me- are they some threat to me as a cyclist? There are too many unanswered questions- including – is local government having trouble attracting the brightest minds from our growing pool of graduates?
Sinead O’Connor:CD- The Lion And The Cobra (remember her?). Bought for iPod for £2.00 from Amazon, why bother with iTunes?

Lena delta for FSX

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8°C, clear but windy

Worst time for a ride to work today: 48 mins. Headwind all the way is my excuse: the ride home was fun.

Using Google Earth to add in a missing river delta into FSX. This picture shows some of the braided rivers to the north west. I may have to remove the kettle-holes in FSX and add them back in manually because of some odd conflicts with my rivers. It looks alright so far.
Teenagers: you can now start some schools at the end of the morning. It’s not that the world revolves around you or anything, but since you need 9 hours sleep and we like to pander to your every desire; we are going to open schools as the morning is finishing.
Go to bed earlier? Yeah, lights out at like 10pm, as if? Oh, don’t trouble yourself…
…we’ll shift the whole world to suit you instead.
We don’t mind waiting for 3 or 4 hours during the best time of the day in a quiet deep enough to be at peace with our thoughts. All that shouting you like to do  can start later.

Peregruzka

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7°C, hail, a storm! C= 25miles only

Waiting: for this storm to blow over. Cycle later, after cleaning up some very muddy ladies. They enjoyed the run.

Vans can indeed be funny

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8°C, light cloud, sunny bits

I laughed at a van today, normally they are not very funny, especially the dirty silver ones with company logos all over them. This one had on the back door:

"Ask for a"
FREE BROCHURE

So, what is "Ask for" a euphemism for? Shame there wasn’t time to take a photo.

Fight Club: watched at last. Thanks to Helen for the recommend, you are also right that the film needs repeated viewing.

Lena Kettle-holes

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-2:+7°C, clear.Sun

Slartybartfast: he won an award for designing all the crinkly bits around Norway, I’m going for one in Siberia, specifically on the delta of the River Lena in Flight Sim X. Look at this for a landscape, those ponds are a few miles across for each one.

This delta is on the Arctic circle, which makes this delta-scape look odd. Deltas don’t often have kettle-holes do they?
Okay, I think it looks odd then, you are entitled to an opinion.
I bet the place smells a bit in late summer, what with the permafrost melting and all that.
Instead of worrying about that- play a game instead.

Fridged

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11°C, heavy rain.

We have a fridge/freezer. that’s been a long wait, but the good side to a cold winter. It’s one of those fitted-kitchen inside a cabinet job, the real virtue of those is that they run very quietly. The fridge itself is quite ugly, but you can’t see it; it’s inside a pale wooden cupboard thing. How exciting. Seriously though, it’s going to make a difference to the kind of food I can make.

Semi-detached, and crocuses.

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10°C, sunny, then rain.

Ever had that feeling: that you suddenly aren’t really there. Or that the world was going on as normal but it didn’t feel that way, it was playing itself like a videotape, but you weren’t flowing along with it.Somehow, you are just concentrating on clinging on.  I did for a while this lunchtime; it was odd enough for me to feel quietly alarmed. Maybe I was just a bit tired, but the feeling was unusual, like those semi-surreal moments that Murakami describes in his books. I had to concentrate on every motion, every routine action as if they were completely new and unfamiliar. Later, normality came back. I still don’t know where it went for those few hours. Don’t do that again.

Out for the evening, happy birthday Trish.

Fridge

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10°C, NE winds, clearing, c=51 miles

I have:a fridge, it will take some installing- it was origonally part of a fitted kitchen- you know the sort where you can’t tell which door has a refrigerator behind it. On its own though, the fridge is quite industrial looking, so I’m going to use the cupboard thing that it came in. However, it will need some wood-work to install it. Recycling.
Seasonal: I am sneezing and have itchy eyes. The only plants doing anything right now are some harmless flowers and the willows are sporing. They will have to take the blame.