Northern Rock bank, our bank, the tax payers bank declaring today to pay themselves a bonus. I mean the brass neck of it, I’m astounded. Reason for bonus? paid back more than expected to the government. What about mortgages and helping small businesses? what about inputting to the economy that they so successfully wrecked? well not single handed but with the the other casino bankers. A couple of years in the Siberian salt mines is too good for the lot of them. Fred the shred from RBS has been declared the worst banker in the world, does he care does …
Jan 21st by Ian under Miscellaneous, Travels, my Friends travels
Maybe we will discover our own island now that the pound has less than parity with the Euro and we have less disposable income. I have been privileged or took my chances on working abroad during the early years of my marriage. This project to project country hopping business, did in my pension but it gave me a wider view. Travel does broaden the mind and working as an expat does make you singularly able, or sent home. I have seen more than a few very able in the UK not cope with expat life. What I paint is a …
Jan 18th by Ian under Bird Watching, Miscellaneous
Readers of this site may be excused for considering this site to be personal moan blog. Perhaps it is the things that irk that are highest on the agenda, does good news sell newspapers? Well it did the other day with the successful rescue of all passengers from the airline that ditched in the Hudson river, a very rare circumstance. Geese and engines don’t mix too well. Wonder how they will exercise control over that incident. Bet the geese are the losers.
Loch leven near me is a wildlife haven, particularly for geese in winter. I had holidays to take …
Increasingly as you get older comments and situations make you react. Maybe because years of experience (of living) personal opinions can be formed, usually in a grumpy old man form. Well I’m not grumpy RE this, how often have you heard “they behaved like animals” in regard to a human situation?
Well surprise surprise, we are animals, we are part of the animal kingdom, animals with backbones (includes politicians) is our phylum. Below is how the zoologists have sorted it out.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: cordota
class: mammalia
order: primata
family: hominidae
Genus: Homo
Species: sapien
Thanks above to wikipedia answers, …
Started reading about the study of the Peregrine Falcon in Greenland, well the book is from the seventies and is about environmental effects of DDT and other organochlorides. Set me wondering 30 or more years on if we can do something equally stupid to the environment but not recognise it at the time, for it’s potential harm. One on which the jury is still out. I cannot include the whole world, who knows what China does, when I worked in Hong Kong I passed streams that ran red, then next day blue and fragrance bay was better known for a …
I like simple devices that work, my sometimes erudite son who made this site, got me a logmaker for Christmas. This if you have a woodburner or open fire will re-cycle waste paper and other burnable waste, into logs. well log shaped compressed paper etc. I have been raiding the paper re-cycling bin after the crimble present paper was used up. I made seven logs from wrapping paper! very pretty they were.
I recommend this product, one hitch is you have to have a fire going first then add the “logs”, I failed to start a fire with logmaker logs …
My daughter Rachel is a curious mixture of the town and the country, her country side produced a book for my birthday I was unaware off, wildlife detective. This is a book I always thought was the province of an early influence on bringing me back to my core interests in birds, Bob McMillian. Back to the book, brilliant, a door opener into the upholders of our law, as with any crime a reflection on humanity pushing the boundaries to suit themselves. Alan Stewart’s book is a fantasitic read for anyone interested in wildlife, particularly if you live in Perth …
Well I thought this was a different and fairly original gift. Thats right its your very own blog where you can write to your hearts content.
It could be ‘the’ blog for construction and bird watching information and anything else you care to write about.
Blogging is actually quite fun!…