Category Archives: Science
Mo-laughing matter
So this guy was talking about his trip to the dentist…. The 45 minutes he spent with the hygienist and the 15 minutes with the dentist and the £95 bill and the buying of the new toothbrush and accessories… How … Continue reading
Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, keep those cheeses rollin’
Bonkers dare-devils chased Double Gloucester cheeses down the 1 in 4 slope of Cooper’s Hill continuing the ancient Spring Bank Holiday tradition at Brockworth, Gloucestershire on Spring Bank Holiday Monday. Police closed one of the major roads close to … Continue reading
When walking is better than cycling…
I will almost always prefer to cycle but there’s a lot to be said for walking. Only by walking do you stumble across interesting bits and pieces hidden away. I’m not talking about the likes of the beautiful piece of … Continue reading
Danger! Homely remedies!
Reluctant as I am to put anyone off trying sensible remedies for minor ailments, I admit this can result in doing more harm than good. Very recently when, due to a frantic flurry of tidying, chucking out and cleaning, I … Continue reading
Non è Pussibile!
You wouldn’t have thought it was possible, would you, that within a week of Leo’s horrible abcess healing up, he’d have another one? I wouldn’t but then I keep under-estimating the nastiness of Big Ginge. I’m already administering eye drops … Continue reading
Let’s hear it for the cheeeeese!
The police and Gloucestershire county council keep trying to make it hard for people to support the annual tradition of cheese rolling on Bank Holiday Monday at Cooper’s Hill, Brockworth. Four years after the event was banned on health and … Continue reading
Eureka!
I moaned to anyone who would listen about my disappointment with the Natural History Museum last year. I wanted to revisit the beetles.. the display cases full of incredible beetles from all over the world – teeny beetles, mediocre beetles, … Continue reading
Exercise as punishment? It already IS!
So Michael Dimwit Gove wants schools to punish children with exercise? Schools are already punishing children with exercise and have done for generations. There’s nothing quite like school sports teaching for encouraging students to LOATHE sport. I was an inherently … Continue reading
A Festival of Birds
After a week of soggy gloom, the sun had his hat on as we arrived at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge on the first day of February. There was lots going on because it’s the Festival of Birds … Continue reading
Overdue blog
For a multitude of reasons, it’s been a while since I published a blog. It’s not that I haven’t been writing them because I have. But they have been handwritten on curly-edged little notebooks that I keep in my handbag, … Continue reading
Janh1: Mainly fair with occasional rain. 