- Being looking after the house, cat and dog whilsts Mum and Dad are away. As usual after feeding the cat, walking the dog, collecting all the fallen apples, sort outthe apples in the barrels to remove the bad apples etc and We have 250 TV channels now, most are crap, but there is still 3 hours of history/geography stuff each day I need to watch all the time has disappeared. - They picked the right time for a holiday, cos for 2 weeks here the weather has been pretty miserable, despite the fact the summer has not yet come, the weather has changed direction to the winter weather with the icy winds now blowing from the the Artic in the North East.. night-time temperatures have been as low as 3C and in the daytime only was it once above 17C, it was rarely warm enough to sit outside.
- Saturday cycled to Gainsborough boring, but 2 interesting things on the way back : I saw the corpse of a medium sized snake on the road into Scotton ...the only wild snake I have ever seen in the UK. and for the first time I went through the dead village of Manton, met Tony the duckman - showed me the church turned into house. I wonder why someone ordered the construction of such a church in 1880 in such a small hamlet, today there are not more than 20 houses nearby. Maybe it was the old owner of Cleatham Hall Matthew Maw.
- Stupid Things : last time I was on the internet I missed some interesting prograame so I set the video and cycled the 3Km to the internet to listen to the programme over the internet. After I had finished that I realise that , whilst I have been doing that I have missed another interesting programme on the live radio. Coming out the weather was so cold and windy I had to buy a scarf. 2 hours later
cos it was so windy I had lost it the bloody thing had blown away. Then when I got home I found that I had video-ed over a programme that I hadn't yet watched.
- Cos it's been so cold I haven't been anywhere recently - Tues - went to the Local History societies meetup where they had a slide show - very well presented by the lady who organises Brigg Ghost walks
- where to travel to ? start off with Autumn in Greece or Georgia ? - One thing I have to do is decide which warm country I will go to next I have an idea to go to Greece or Georgia and then go to an English speaking country in the southerm hemisphere.. but all countries are crazy these days ... I have had no time to think.
-Actually there a shakepeare street performance in London on Oct 26th by The Lion's Part , and last time I saw I it was really good so I want to wait until after that
- Wacky World - For the last months my share investmenst have being volatile. The banks have dropped in value by 70%, but luckily my share in other companies like Gas have risen. .. When my shares in one bank that were last year worth $2000 fell 80% since I knew it is very good bank I figured that the shares would rise again so I bought $2000 worth of extra shares.. after 6 weeks the government nationalised the bank so seems I have lost $4000. ... it's OK I suppose
- Since 1997 the average house prices here have risen 300%, they used to cost the same as 2 cars now they cost 20 cars. This is ridiculous.. but people used to be happy their house was making so much money and no media questioned it.. Now they have dropped 12% this year and the same journalists now call that a collapse, a disaster. They like most people don't seem to be able to count. Of all the crazy people the media are the worst they distort the truth so much.
Tuesday I watched the BBC and the journalist was using emotive language to say share prices were collapsing, it was a crisis etc ..yet as he spoke the value on the screen was rising from a small fall and crossed the line into a rise. It was only by 6pm the BBC finally made some excuse that prices hadn't fallen as expected wheras the truth was they were reporting the news they had prepared and expected to happen instead of the news that actually was happening .. crazy world.
- I see they turned the james Randi lecture into the skeptics allstar show
Steve Suffet pretty good railroad songs
-Mon 6.30-8pm- Gut Feelings LSE 54 Lincoln Inn Fields Holborn lse.ac.uk/events
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