Archive for the ‘collisions’ Category
sign in shop window – home made cake
Sunday, September 26th, 2010Fuel
Sunday, September 26th, 2010fruits of labour – the chilli harvest
Sunday, September 26th, 2010vine withered tomatoes – autumnal sadness
Sunday, September 26th, 2010good apple bad apple
Sunday, September 26th, 2010pictures of tref
Saturday, August 7th, 2010The British summer holiday weather
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010Today
Weather:
Early rain / drizzle then dry for a time but further rain / showers later. Hill fog, especially early & again later
Wind:
SW veering W or NW, 10 to 18
Visibility:
Good, occasionally moderate. Very poor in hill fog.
Comments:
Slight risk of higher rainfall totals tonight.
Wednesday 4th August
Weather:
Scattered showers. Hill fog patches.
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Richard Dawkins and the Cancer of Creationism
Monday, August 2nd, 2010A Christian’s critic’s critic writes:
For the most part, Richard Dawkin’s “The Greatest Show on Earth” is a beautifully written and well argued piece of work. In it he puts forward many convincing data and explanations which demonstrate categorically that the world is about 4.6 billion years old and that all species on earth can trace their origins back to the dawn of life itself. That is, the creationist view of the earth having existed for less than 10,000 years is dogma of the worst kind; deliberate ignorance and denial of fact to satisfy one’s own, in this case, religious agenda.
Admittedly, Dawkin’s well-documented arrogance surfaces regularly; here, for example, in the form of intellectual snobbery:
“…….reminds me of Peter Medawar’s wickedly astute observation that ‘the spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary (more…)
The Wicket
Sunday, July 11th, 2010THE CONTRACT
Tuesday, July 6th, 20102010 Royal Air Force Waddington International Air Show
Commercial Participant – Conditions of Entry
The Ministry of Defence cannot accept any responsibility in respect of personal injury, loss or damage to vehicles of property including motor vehicles in the car parks except to the extent that such injury, loss or damage is proved to be caused by M.O.D. negligence.
RAF Waddington reserves the right to carry out such vehicle and personal security checks as it deems necessary, and (more…)
Blues
Saturday, June 5th, 2010Dave Cameron’s familiar cabinet
Friday, May 14th, 2010David (Dave) Cameron
Nick Clegg
William (Bill) Hague
George (George) Osborne
Vince (Vinny) Cable
Liam (Foxy) Fox
Andrew (Andy) Lansley
Chris Huhne
Ken (Kenny) Clarke
Theresa (Tree) May
Michael (Mike) Gove
David (Dave) Laws
Danny (Boy) Alexander
Eric (Ricky) Pickles
Jeremy (Jezzer) Hunt
Iain (Ee) Duncan Smith
Baroness (Baz) Warsi
Rainfall measurement techniques #1
Saturday, May 1st, 2010- hold spectacles horizontally at arm’s length, front of lenses pointing upwards
- remember where the door is (this bit is to a large extent dependent on your prescription strength)
- open door and quickly thrust arm out as far as you can reach – note no upward sweeping movements of arm
- have independent timekeeper count to five seconds – recommend the one thousand and one, one thousand and two etc method
- outstretched arm must be free of all interference – ensure no collateral precipitation occurs from guttering, pub sign above door etc. artificial drips play havoc with the measurements and lessen the accuracy of results. if (more…)
Numbers Game
Monday, April 19th, 2010