10°C, showers

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So you’re going to inherit the world. We’re trying to be more "green" for the sake of generations to come. Our youngsters are going to inherit the world from us so we’d best hand it over in a worthwhile condition.

In that case why are the youth so often disinterested in green issues.

To illustrate: today we tidied up the house which was left looking like a land-fill site after one of ours left. I found the bin filled just two days after they were last emptied by the council. In one full bin liner was 9 bottles, mostly 2 litre plastic ones. Next to the bin was the plastic/glass recycling bin which was overlooked in favour of the black land-fill bin. this is from the same child who would drive to work only 0.6 miles away, even when the roads were so icy that the chances of an accident were high.

 

There is no hope of reducing greenouse emissions, nor any other ecological concern. We are wasting our time

9°C, showers, some heavy.

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This & that: posting to Flickr, shopping and trying to get a builder to repair our roof. Why is it so difficult to return a phone call, or give us the quote promised? What else? Mending things, like the vacuum cleaner.

 

Il-2 Sturmovic: 1946. Added a patch which as had some strange side-effects to the main game. Apart from the trouble installing it, (due to a bad memory module) it has removed certain custom mission folders in the game, and left others intact. The pattern seems quite strange. The Single missions are gone, but net games are all as before. Que?

 

Linseed: made a change that could be awkward to complete. I added a hand, see picture, which needs about 4 more layers like the face has had. I have made this mistake before with the painting "Ruff".
It never did look entirely right.

11°C, as grey as could be

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9°C, clear & sunny

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No ride today: walking in Derbyshire instead. The rivers are deep- near to overflowing, and the mud thick black stuff. Deceptively – it’s not as deep as it looks, there are limestone rocks near the surface. Those new walking boots are superb.

 

McNaught: With the first day of clear sunset, I really hoped to see the new wonder-comet, just as the sun went down. It’s too late by a few days- and when it was higher- we had cloudy skies here in England.

7°C, sun then rain, wind all the way.

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Monday:It’s been a holiday full of late nights, and for me, too many social occasions. Today was an escape- by bicycle- which was in no way marred by a puncture near Hamstel Ridware. A Buzzard flew over while I fixed it. the situation was quite atmospheric – what with gathering dark clouds over the Chase, strong winds blowing towards here and the sky full of crows. the only colour anywhere was grass, black earth and lead-grey roads.

"Orphans" by Tom Waits is fantastic, a triple CD that should keep me going for quite a while. That Christmas CD ( exCathedra) is getting more plays than I expected- choral music is very good, it’s more than just decorative wallpaper (apart from a few tracks).

11°C, wind & showers

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It’s dark, it’s 7am and it’s the last day of the year even though last night wasn’t exactly early, I woke at 6am and at dawn, I can take the dogs out.
No new- year’s resolutions this time ’round- the last few have worked out and there it no real need to wait ’til new year to change something in life. 2007 will see some mountain walking, the same amount of cycling and probably more futile computer game-play.
Currently I have been whiling away time playing "Company of Heroes". A corney name I know but this is rather a good game, see more on this Wiki. It is a little beyond the power of this computer but an upgrade is due in the next quater anyway.

2006 has seen my paintings continue, less rapidly but more concentrated on each one. There has been a price for the time spent on those, that is- fewer animations.

 

There is the most beautiful birdsong coming from outside, dawn is almost here, and the dogs are wide awake.

10°C, sunny

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Cannock Chase: brisk walking on the Chase which was supposed to be with the 3-peaks team. I was late; mainly due to the meeting point  being off familiar turf. At least I met them at the end & they had walked about the same distance as I did. They also walked over round pebbles of the Bunta-pebble bed, surrounded by treacle black mud from years of forest managment. There were relatively few wild animals, offset by vast numbers of mountain bikers. Some tracks are impassable due to hoardes of those cyclists. Oh well, it looks like fun and unlikely to break bikes like some terrain would. Swinnertons cycles looks like a useful place, I make a mental note of it.

5°C, grey but dry

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The Dogs have stolen their christmas presents. They took them out of the bag in the wardrobe and sat on the sofa to eat them. With christmas day tomorrow- what else are they going to steal this weekend?

Don’t look at me like that- it’s not funny!

12°C, sunny int. + S wind.

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Got the car back yesterday with new numberplates. Saturday’s repair revealed that we have been driving around for three years with the wrong number-plates on the car. VW readily admit that they made the mistake- which leaves me pondering the legal position.

Thursday:  this day (today)is tired-day. This has been the case for Thursdays for most of my life- why might that be?

Live spaces have still prohibited the word “Chicken” in blog entry titles.

12° some rain, some shine…

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Charmed:My tutor group sang "Happy Birthday" today- twice. Half of them are in the senior choir, some did that alto-harmony thing which made it all quite magical. I probably came across as self-conscious, but inside, I loved it. No one has done that before. The other half bought a nice cake with candles( which they are not allowed to light).