@ 2008-07-24 – 07:16:40
and I am knackered this morning. 
ALSO
I seem to have picked up the cold/sinus thing that is going around the department as I can't stop sneezing and I have a head full of snot.
Ace. 
It is nice and sunny today which is good 'cos I have to go off site today in the afternoon so I get to walk along the river.
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@ 2008-07-23 – 20:54:35
I mean, I was thinking when I have visited Greenwich and straddled the Meridian for photos I usually orientate myself so that I am facing South so my right side is West and my left side is East. But when we read a map we always face North (if you see what I mean).
How about you?
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@ 2008-07-23 – 07:06:16
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20080723/tuk-detox-diet-woman-awarded-810000-6323e80.html
Dettox diets what are they exactly?
(peers at the bowl of green glop in the picture disgustedly) 
Let's be honest, the only way to be healthy is to eat a varied diet of healthy stuff and to cut back on unhealthy stuff (everything in moderation) and to get lots of fresh air and natural light and some healthy moderate excercise. I can't imagine that eating glop like that would be good for you and can you imagine the taste? What is wrong with the world?
Ignore me I'm just crabby 'cos I didn't sleep well too humid last night.
(reaches for another coffee).
In other news it is extremely overcast and even more humid today than yesterday.
Off to the station with me to get stuck on another train then. 
AND
Have to buy lunch from M&S at the moment as the cheap cafe near where I work seems to close down for a few weeks while the students are on vacation. Not just any sandwhich ..............
Catch you later perhaps.
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@ 2008-07-22 – 22:47:27
and I got stuck on a crowded train for over half an hour outside a station due to the train in front breaking down in the station, soooooooooooooooooooo we decided to go here for a walk.
past this large family.
Across bridges
through this medieval gate
Where we met this guy
Who has this tatooed on his backside
And walked up the river bank
as far as the old bridge
And past the cattle
as the sun started to set
and the colours were amazing,
but it started to get dark, so we went to the Welsh Harp next to the Abbey
and had a drink.
and then went for a nice kebab and chips.
Nite nite.
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@ 2008-07-22 – 07:02:42
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080721/tsc-austria-sweden-animals-horses-scienc-c2ff8aa.html
I can remember being fascinated by these horses as a little girl and grown ups explaining to me that the horses were just going grey prematurely the way some adults do. Now we all know that going grey early runs in families thus it is genetic and coat colour in animals was shown by Mendell several centuries back to be genetic. Also it will come as no surprise that those with low levels of melanin in their skin are more predisposed to skin cancer. Ok let me try to be more positive for a moment, I suppose it might be helpful if they have isolated the specific gene IF it is going to help combat skin cancer in some way. But that is not what the headline or the article says. Perhaps the fault lies not with the research but the way the headline is written. BUT I am sick of reading about research which has been carried out to prove something that was already well known or completely understood and presenting it as a breakthrough when it seems to me that there are lots of things which are worth investigating as they are still a complete mystery such as why, when a telephone company disconnects someone in error (and one of the staff admits that the procedure was not followed correctly) it takes so long for them to reconnect the line and that an apology is not immediately forthcoming.
Now another thing that is completely irritating is that we are just about to start a 3 day heatwave after a weekend of crap weather but we are back at work. No doubt next week when I am not at work it will piss down again. 
I will leave you with one last thought. This time it is about the value of statistics. I see it is reported in the news that the statistics for injury due to alchol have increased by 6%. Well alcohol does cause people to make errors and makes you more clumsy but I wonder is it really that people are drinking more or are people just going to hospital more with minor injuries or is it just that years ago when people went to hospital with a minor injury no one recorded whether or not alcohol might have played a part in it. What constitutes an alcohol related injury and do they actually measure the blood alcohol levels as when there has been a car accident or do they just decide that someone has been drinking or not? I would say it is someone injuring themselves because alcohol has impaired their judgement, but if you slip on a wet floor and you have had a glass of wine would you have slipped on the same wet floor if you had not had that drink. This may or may not matter, but it matters if you are on holiday. The reason being that most holiday insurance policies (if you read the small print) do NOT cover you if you have an accident related to alcohol, so before you have that small glass of wine on holiday better do that health and safety risk assessment.
Anyway off to roast to death on a hot overcrowded tube train.
Catch you later maybe?
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@ 2008-07-21 – 21:28:00
A raw juice smoothie energising drink that is apple, carrot and ginger. It helped to combat the humidity the ginger is a great pick you up.
Yum.
What did you think I went to the pub?
On a Monday?
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@ 2008-07-20 – 21:42:02
we have had a nice evening.
I love the changing swirly colours of the clouds as they reflect the sunset.
Just came in from pruning my roses, found this little guy.
Mr S has made a fantastic chili hope I can do it justice. I am still stuffed after lunchtime.
Hope you all had a good day.
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@ 2008-07-20 – 19:59:30
Many years ago we used to take Moff to this place http://www.dinosaurland.co.uk/ in Lyme Regis which has an excellent collection of fossils of all shapes and sizes and then go on a fossil hunt with the guy who owns it. the large fossils are almost impossible to collect, even if you could chip them out of the rock with a geological hammer they are so heavy you would need a block and tackle to lift them, but there are loads of small fossils just lying on the beach and some of them contain pyrite so they glitter like gold. The problem is that the tides there are a bit tricky and it is all too easy to get stranded and being rescued by the life boat is incredibly expensive. Unfortunately, he doesn't run the fossil hunts anymore, but I have had an email exchange with him in relation to the tides on the day we hope to visit with Sarah and he has got to be one of the most helpful people I have ever met.
So if you are down that way and you have a potential junior paleontologist with you, then make sure you go to Dinosaurland I do not think you will be disappointed.
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@ 2008-07-20 – 14:06:35
I have decided we are eating too much unhealthy crap, additives and stuff. I did not have bacon for breakfast and I have made canapes of smoked salmon and crab with egg on small squares of toasted swedish rye rather than having nuts and crips as a snack. We are having home made chickpea soup with just a little white wine in it for flavour ahem and some nice 3 seeded french bread from M&S for lunch.
I feel very virtuous and I am going to sit down and have a little splash of raspberry vodka with sprite zero in it. Don't look so disapproving it has LEMONade or rather LEMON AND LIME as well as raspberries in it that is 3 out of my 5 portions of fresh fruit and veg already today. 4 if you count the fruit I ate for breakfast. I am doing well today. 
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@ 2008-07-19 – 12:28:51
at the sales this morning. Applies TCP to scratches on face and arms and smoothes down ruffled feathers. Good stuff reduced down to half price or less even. Got a nice skirt and two pretty tops for me 
and some lovely jeans and two tops from Sarah, didn't get the shoes I wanted though .
Torrential rain for about 2 hours this morning put paid to any plans of going anwywhere much so we are off to the pub for fish and chips, no drinkies for me 
though driving later.
Wait though, wot's happened to the sky it's gone a funny blue colour and there is a big hot yellow thing up there, not sure what it is though. Mmight be able to go to the forest later then, if the weather doesn't change back.
Have a nice Saturday.
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