Are these worth the electronic paper they are printed on or do they do no good whatsoever? I ask because my employer has just brought a load to make itself carbon neutral but I have no real idea whether this actually helps the environment or whether by preserving trees on plantation A one simply comdemns those on plantation B, for example.

Even on a specialist old rock station, I give you Iron Maiden's Rime of the Ancient Mariner. As in all of it.

Am now showing my age 'cos I haven't heard it for ages and listened to it and remembered it was rather good actually. A pity my copy of Powerslave is on a manky old cassette somewhere

We have another cat. She is called Smog and she is a grey tabby. I'll post up a pic of her when the current set on the camera make it to the PC

My cat is dead. And I am sad.

In case anyone is interested, she had kidney failure (which is standard in 16 year old cats) and stopped eating so I had her put down today whilst she was still purring rather than waiting until she became distressed.

Ho hum.

Well, thats all done now. Jolly good thing too as it was stressing me out a treat ( Read more... )

Ah well. Hoped to get close to 1:10, ended up with 1:12:30 which is still a PB by two minutes ( Read more... )

Yay! Twice round the bike loop for the half ironman next month. Knackered, but then that's what I would expect. On the plus side, it only took a few minutes of sitting still for me to consider that going for a run wasn't a total non-starter, and for the first time I actually used the aero bars on my bike because I thought they were helping rather ( Read more... )

Here's a thought for you all. Our national carbon footprint is ever in the news and yet I see that various people will sell you a solar water heater fully fitted for about £1500. Now, if there are, say, 20 Million households in the country and each of these had one fitted then that would come to about £30bn ( Read more... )

Good stuff ( Read more... )

Last night I though I would watch the Monty Python that was on telly on ITV3. Elaine was watching something in the sitting room which leaves me with the telly in the gym (other sitting room that holds the running machine, bike-on-a-turbo and my pinball table). Not wanting to waste the opportunity I thought I would put my shoes on and ride the turbo ( Read more... )