The joy of language

Reading time: < 1 min We sometimes take English for granted, but if we examine its paradoxes we find that quicksand takes you down slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. There is no egg in the eggplant, no ham in the hamburger, and neither pine nor apple are…

It's getting hot in here

Reading time: < 1 min Global warming continues apace, with reports that some species may be extinct soon (relatively speaking of course), or will they?A report by scientists from Harvard University states that the Middle Ages were warmer than today. Once again, scientists provide us with yet another “who to believe” quandary.

Wednesday woes

Reading time: < 1 min Budget Day. Wonder how much worse off I’ll be by 5pm today. Still, at least I can watch Hollywood Science at 7:30pm tonight to cheer me up! Yay! Anyhoo, flipping knackered this morning. Did a rough cut edit of the 342 pics from the weekend, and got it down to around 200… couple of nice…

Yikes

Reading time: < 1 min So much to do, so little time.Watched Real Madrid demolish Man U 3-1 and now I’m catching up with blog reading.Write up of trip is underway (Day one done, photo’s almost ready) hope to finish that off tomorrow at some point…Should be back up to full ‘blog-speed’ by Thursday I reckon.

Catching up

Reading time: < 1 min The return of Superstars – Whatever happened to Brian Jacks? BT get a new logo Blogging Brits gets some publicity. And lots of stuff about Iraq, John Simpson etc etc… Right that’s the ‘news’ outta the way… on with the blogs!