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Burnham Tri
For them as are interested, the Burnham tri date in 2009 looks like it will be 14th June. There aren't any entry forms available yet, this is just the date I have got from my tri club -
Interest rate cut
Well, this should be interesting. I reckon the good ol' bank of England wanted to implement about a 0.75% cut and knew that whatever it did would not get passed on properly so made a larger cut in order to achieve what it actually wanted. Only thanks to the Government hectoring the banks it looks like almost everyone gets the lot. If I'm right, ( Read more... ) -
Cat ownership (benefits thereof)
'What the hell's that noise?' says I at about 3am yesterday. Sure enough, the cat has brought something in. Only the something is a medium sized, fully functioning wild rat. I can't catch it at that hour, and the cat, having established that I am pleased (after all, I came to see what the noise was) has cleared off to do something else ( Read more... ) -
Oh, the dilemma
I have my lovely fire and I am determined to be a good boy and only burn wood on it. The stuff is carbon neutral as near as dammit, highly flammable, looks pretty and smells nice. But then I am up at my parents house last weekend and my parents have a fire with a combination of bits of old wood and some packaged coal of some sort (made from pressed ( Read more... ) -
Buy tomorrow's council flats today!!!
Well here we are with an ever increasing population and an ever increasing need for social housing and what are we to do ( Read more... ) -
Firegazing
Well, this is now something I can do as I have got the chimney swept in my house and had my first open fire today. It's such a simple thing but the kids were fascinated and it brings a great feeling of calm and well being to sit in a room with a small fire burning and just be peaceful ( Read more... ) -
Are you all ready???
Here we go then. Having created about $1Trn of vapour money appear and passed it off to the rest of us as the real thing, the Americans (both the bankers and the millions of them who borrowed money they knew they couldn't repay) have now decided that they don't want to sort their own mess out but would rather watch it all crash down around their ( Read more... ) -
Large Hadron Collider Q+A
A standard Q&A for the LHC put up on the BBC which suddenly gets elevated into the realm of classic by the last paragraph or two. Read it before the Beeb pulls it for naughty language.
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More cycling
Was it just me who was a little disappointed at Mark Cavendish pulling out of the last stage of the Tour of Ireland? (was it in fact only me that watched it?) He was wearing the green jersey but faced with 4 nasty sharp climbs on a circuit round Cork he just stopped and got off his bike.
All the post race interviews he gives just make me laugh. ( Read more... ) -
Cycling
Ugh that was horrible. 30 miles, two big hills (and one medium sized one) and the roads were soaking, the air was foggy and I didn't want to be doing it from about mile 2. You did well, Andy, to refuse the offer of that one yesterday. If they hand out finishes at the New Forest HIM as a reward for finishing crap sessions then I am now sorted ( Read more... )