When I was a kid my parents told me the sitting on a newspaper would stop me from feeling travel sick when traveling in the car. I'd forgotten about this until recently. I then started to wonder if they were winding us up but it seems my Dad isn't the only person to have had this idea apparently it's supposed to be something to do with static electricity.
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
Wednesday, 3 September 2008
Big Bang Day!
On September the 10th they will turn on the CERN Hadron collider I don't really understand the science but apparently the idea is to recreate the immediate aftermath of the "Big Bang" what worries me slightly is that they might recreate the "Big Bang" all over again. Well at least you will be able to follow it all on Radio 4.
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
Government incompetence!
Well I don't know why I'm surprised but sometimes the level of incompetence of local government amazes me. In the post yesterday I got a form from the city council asking me to confirm my entry on the register of electors. Deciding to be organised I tried to use the website, it wasn't found, there was something odd about the spelling www.canvassmaters.com/sheffield so I tried missing out one of the s's this took me to this website. I rang the information line to let them know that it wasn't working. They thanked me but said they knew and that the telephone line for automated registering wasn't working either. The nice lady had no idea when it would be working. She suggested posting the form might be the most reliable option.
Saturday, 9 August 2008
I hear the strangest things on the radio!
I tend to fall asleep with the radio on Radio 4 is fine but the world service can be surreal some of the stuff I hear I think I have dreamt it such as the recent attack on a Greyhound bus in Canada. If you are at all squeamish don't bother following the link to read this! And some is just plain silly. The offering the other night was "The economic slowdown is accelerating"
Christian the Lion
sarah told me about this,she told me it had made her cry I found and watched it; she wasn't wrong
Friday, 25 July 2008
I'm sure I can smell tea
I went to Chestnut Wildlife Centre" today with Mum mainly because I love Otters and owls and they have both there, I had read about it in a Wildlife guide in the Guardian and I wanted to get some photos of them. I found the whole place rather depressing, the otters were kept in smallish pens in an attractive wooded valley with a pretty stream running through it. However the otters didn't have access to the stream and a lot of them didn't even have water to swim in. Even worse where the owls quarters these were wire mesh pens among the trees about 5ft square and around 12ft high. The owls didn't look at all happy. As you can see from the picture the otters seemed a bit happier some did have pools to swim in.
Thursday, 3 July 2008
Smoking
Something strange has happened to me recently, I smoke, I don't really like the fact that I do, I don't like that I get something from it. I have tried to give up many times, Succeeded once for about a year when I had my son. But I always missed it. Because I was in agonising pain from a trapped nerve in my shoulder my GP prescribed gapapentin this is a recognised and authorised treatment for nerve pain. It seemed to work, my pain is much better. What is interesting is that it seems to have reduced my craving for my next hit of nicotine, but what is even more interesting and strangely annoying is that it has also removed my enjoyment of my occasional smoke. I don't smoke heavily but have always enjoyed it's stress relieving qualities and the comfort of the habit that a non-smoker would be hard pressed to understand. Although I should welcome this opportunity to quit I find my self annoyed and faintly irritated by this.
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