I have been trying to follow this Euro pack debate and economists make some sense as you can follow their line of thinking be it with a slant from banking to industrialists. While the politicians make little sense, unless you happen to be that naive to believe them. Recently PM Cameron is both lauded and denounced particularly by the word press and I have to say on the radio, much my preferred news medium. But although it's obviously complicated why is it so difficult to predict where the UK will be now Cameron has dealt his (our) veto card? and…
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Well as you can see I have revamped your blog with my brand new theme (still in beta)! You will see in the admin that you have some "theme options" and when writing posts you can now use a variety of formats (I'll show you what these are all about).
This is a belated birthday gift as I just couldnt finish the damn thing in time (probably because I didnt start it early enough). Its still a work in progress however so updates will be fairly regular!
Ive also upgraded to the latest version and done all your plugins too.…
Dec 2nd by Ian under Miscellaneous
Dec 2nd by Ian under Travels, my Friends travels
Tags: aerial pictures, alex strachan, Scatsta
Nov 10th by Ian under Bird Watching, Miscellaneous
Nov 6th by Ian under Materials and Construction
Tags: doc control, oil and gas QA/QC, QA, SGP
Being used to the role of principal contractor,then being a sub-contractor needs a mindset change, that comes through the contract and the impositions necessarily put on you. The Shetlands Gas Plant (SGP) Laggan-Tormore had a bigger surprise waiting, lurking menacingly, unseen, unexpected in the Totality of it's monstrous dimensions - documents for QA. The whole team have no experience of the level of documentation required, I guess we are somewhat spoiled in transportation where the client has the testing required tabulated and "bare" appendices for designers to complete, from this I in the past have complied many test and inspection…
Nov 5th by Ian under Bird Watching, Travels, my Friends travels
Tags: sullom voe, wintering merlins
Oct 8th by Ian under Materials and Construction, Travels, my Friends travels
Tags: shetland sunsets
Sep 6th by Ian under Bird Watching, Travels, my Friends travels
I am retyping this from the original which is a paper I helped compile for a years worth of birdwatching on Dubai's creek. I was not alone and the observations are from a small but determined party of enthusiasts who got up early on a Friday (holy day) and often took to the mud to cover the whole creek. The period was 1981 to 1982 and I believe shortly after I left the area it was declared a national park, good vision from the Maktoums. I am doing this in response to a search of my site for Dubai birds,…
Aug 21st by Ian under Travels, my Friends travels
Adults Ospreys may have gone, did see two juvs on the eyrie, and later one on the eyrie branch, it was making begging calls, but eventually flew off. On scanning the reedbeds I did pick up an Osprey on the other side of the river, one from "my" nest ? who knows. It's time we had bird rings that emitted bar codes that smart phones could pick up, now that would advance bird movement study.
No juv or adult harriers in evidence so could also be gone.
End of another nesting season, comes round so quickly! however the weather was…
Aug 7th by neilgd under Bird Watching
Tags: Fulmar, Herring Gull, Kittiwake, RSPB Fowlsheugh, Stonehaven
Jul 31st by Ian under Bird Watching, Travels, my Friends travels
