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Furry mad kat
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15/09/2008
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Well OK you guys...not interesting to everyone but what on earth do I do with a PHENOMENAL number of tomatoes that have all ripened at once and are splitting so that I need to pick them........ that is apart from generously donating some to neighbours??
Polite suggestions will be greatly received.
FMK
FMK
Count your garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall.
Count your days by the golden hours, don't remember clouds at all.
Count your life by smiles, not tears, and with joy on every birthday.
Count your age by friends, not years.
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Sue
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Posted - 23/09/2008 : 21:09
Trust you to find the typing error Stanley. Never mind the error just make the soup!!
Sue
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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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Posted - 24/09/2008 : 07:40
Funny, I'm not that good with me own........
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Tizer
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Posted - 24/09/2008 : 14:44
Stanley, I liked your joke about Belle's Scandinavian hlaf pint - it gave me a good hlaf!
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Sue
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Posted - 24/09/2008 : 18:03
I think it was my hlaf pint
Sue
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Stanley
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Posted - 25/09/2008 : 06:31
Looks like a good Old Norse word to me.... Am I spending too much time buried in the past? Just looked at me word list, 'hlaf' is OE for bread or loaf. Knew I'd seen it somewhere. OE for half is is 'healf'.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Tizer
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Posted - 25/09/2008 : 09:41
Sorry Sue, I knew it was one of you lovely ladies somewhere on the previous page!
Stanley, perhaps the government could come up with one of their promotional messages - "eat healf portions and be healfy" (hehe as TP says).
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Sue
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Posted - 25/09/2008 : 13:35
Stop taking the micky Tiz!!!!!!
As for the lovely bit, I am so glad you noticed!
Sue
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Stanley
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Posted - 25/09/2008 : 16:51
Bloody creep........
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Sue
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Posted - 25/09/2008 : 16:55
Who me *****!!!!!!!
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Stanley
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Posted - 26/09/2008 : 07:22
Not you, him! Some researchers have decided that dark chocolate is good for us. I think we all knew that......
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Furry mad kat
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Posted - 29/09/2008 : 18:49
Hey ...getting completely off the point. I have come across this amazing US website. Its www.sciencemusings.com. There is some serious stuff here and some light hearted banter. My hubby and I, both with scientific backgrounds are gripped! Certainly worth a regular read if you are that way inclined!
FMK
Edited by - Furry mad kat on 29/09/2008 6:50:54 PM
FMK
Count your garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall.
Count your days by the golden hours, don't remember clouds at all.
Count your life by smiles, not tears, and with joy on every birthday.
Count your age by friends, not years. |
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Posted - 30/09/2008 : 12:04
An interesting and entertaining site - thanks for the posting the link Furry. The "Stretching the imagination" essay in particular struck a chord (chord? geometry? I didn't mean to pun). It says: "Eratosthenes was a geographer. He imagined that the Earth was a sphere. He figured out how to measure the size of the sphere by using shadows cast by the Sun at Alexandria and another place down the valley of the Nile. He used some mathematics that at the time was pretty advanced stuff -- geometry, trig."
I recall reading that he got the sphere idea from looking down wells (we all have strange habits, I guess). He noted one day that when the sun was directly above at mid-day he could see its reflection in the water at the bottom of the well. But if he went directly north or south and looked down the wells at midday he couldn't see the reflection. And he decided the probable reason was that the Earth is round, not flat.
We are so used to fancy instruments for measuring, and now we have computers and sat-nav etc, we forget that our ancient ancestors had their own earlier ways of doing many of these things. It's an eye-opener to learn how the old woodworkers and masons measured dimensions and angles and created circles and the like just with bits of string and straight edges. And it's more fun that way too!
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Furry mad kat
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Posted - 30/09/2008 : 20:51
There's an amazing one on bacteriophages too which is more my line and fairly mind blowing. I loved the TEM that was taken showing these in action... whatever turns you on I suppose. Certainly its a good site!
FMK
FMK
Count your garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall.
Count your days by the golden hours, don't remember clouds at all.
Count your life by smiles, not tears, and with joy on every birthday.
Count your age by friends, not years. |
Tomatoes - Imagination required!
