Happy New Year to you all. This global warming malarkey is wonderful isn't it.............
Let me tell you a story. Steve and Jennifer Bobton-Smythe have been extremely inconvenienced by the current poor weather. Neither come from upper class stock, the double barreled name comes from them adding their surnames together when they married. He's an accountant and she's a Travelling Persons Diversity Benefits and Culture Co-Ordinator.
They looked all the spring and summer months last year for a perfect home and finally found one in a small hamlet 30 miles from Aberdeen. What a wonderful, rustic, rural community to live in.
The first frosts of October worried Jennifer, so Steve bought a big ugly 4x4 for them. They drove in and out of town at 80 miles per hour on a daily basis, tailgating other road users and lording it over the oiks in their lesser vehicles.
But oh dear. The rural idyll has gone the way of the pear. The worst winter in 50 years is upon us. And now Steve is driving into town at 20 miles per hour with a queue a mile long behind him of people he normally tailgates and abuses. Steve cannot handle his 4x4. Or Snow. Or Ice.
The moral of the story - don't buy a house in rural Aberdeenshire if you can't drive in poor weather and adverse road conditions.
I thank you in advance for your co-operation in this matter...............
First music recommendation of the year from Glasvegas "Daddy's Gone". More than a nod to the Motown bands of the 60's and all the better for it.
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Friday, 8 January 2010
Thursday, 31 December 2009
Hogmanay in the Snow
Hello Folks
Well here we are at Hogmanay again. God knows where the time goes to. With 2 wee ones our Hogmanay will be a quiet one, at home, couple of beers, watch the (repeated) Still Game, avoid the now turgid Only an Excuse and to bed by 1am.
I know it's cliched to lament the death of this Scottish Tradition, but I'm going to anyway. Gone are the days of first footing. As a kid I sat in my grandparent's house with an Advocaat or Snowball. As the Grieve of the farm, all the workers came to Granda's house for a dram. It was the only night of the year he drank (apart from the occasional Sweetheart Stout which I still have a fondness for) and a smile still comes to my face as I remember my Dad and Uncle helping him to his bed!
As I grew older I'd go into the village and go round the houses until the early morning. You knew everyone and were welcome everywhere.
Now New Year is organised, forced jollity. It's become a parody. I can't think of anything worse than standing in the centre of Edinburgh with a bunch of Tarquins and Cecilias dressed in tartan telling you how their great great uncle was "Scotch" and how they love our quaint traditions..........
As is also traditional, it threw it down with snow here last night, we had around 8 inches, so I've spent a good chunk of the day clearing snow. In our whole street I think three of us have done so. The rest are probably sitting writing letters to the Evening Express to complain about it.
Now I know the city council have been a disgrace and many older people are housebound because of the mess of the pavements, but I have to say we have had people clearing the pavements almost daily and the gritter was round the street today.
People need to take a bit of responsibility for their own lives. It took me a hour to clear the snow, gave me some exercise and it was a beautiful day to be out.
As our street is full of single mothers and single blokes in their 30s who have inexplicably been given pensioner's houses by the council (I dare say they have 'issues' which mean they just have to jump to the top of the council house queue), you would think they would get off their arses and do a bit of light manual labour and maybe do their pensioner neighbour's path while they are at it.
But nope, no sign of them. Society is dead right enough. However to be a 'local' here you have to have lived here since birth and be able to trace your family back 5 generations.
New Year's resolution - don't get so worked up about the insular inhabitants of the village I live in!!
Have a great Hogmanay and see you all in 2010.
Last music recommendation for this year is a classic Come Together by the Beatles.
Well here we are at Hogmanay again. God knows where the time goes to. With 2 wee ones our Hogmanay will be a quiet one, at home, couple of beers, watch the (repeated) Still Game, avoid the now turgid Only an Excuse and to bed by 1am.
I know it's cliched to lament the death of this Scottish Tradition, but I'm going to anyway. Gone are the days of first footing. As a kid I sat in my grandparent's house with an Advocaat or Snowball. As the Grieve of the farm, all the workers came to Granda's house for a dram. It was the only night of the year he drank (apart from the occasional Sweetheart Stout which I still have a fondness for) and a smile still comes to my face as I remember my Dad and Uncle helping him to his bed!
As I grew older I'd go into the village and go round the houses until the early morning. You knew everyone and were welcome everywhere.
Now New Year is organised, forced jollity. It's become a parody. I can't think of anything worse than standing in the centre of Edinburgh with a bunch of Tarquins and Cecilias dressed in tartan telling you how their great great uncle was "Scotch" and how they love our quaint traditions..........
As is also traditional, it threw it down with snow here last night, we had around 8 inches, so I've spent a good chunk of the day clearing snow. In our whole street I think three of us have done so. The rest are probably sitting writing letters to the Evening Express to complain about it.
Now I know the city council have been a disgrace and many older people are housebound because of the mess of the pavements, but I have to say we have had people clearing the pavements almost daily and the gritter was round the street today.
People need to take a bit of responsibility for their own lives. It took me a hour to clear the snow, gave me some exercise and it was a beautiful day to be out.
As our street is full of single mothers and single blokes in their 30s who have inexplicably been given pensioner's houses by the council (I dare say they have 'issues' which mean they just have to jump to the top of the council house queue), you would think they would get off their arses and do a bit of light manual labour and maybe do their pensioner neighbour's path while they are at it.
But nope, no sign of them. Society is dead right enough. However to be a 'local' here you have to have lived here since birth and be able to trace your family back 5 generations.
New Year's resolution - don't get so worked up about the insular inhabitants of the village I live in!!
Have a great Hogmanay and see you all in 2010.
Last music recommendation for this year is a classic Come Together by the Beatles.
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Climate Change
The Copenhagen summit is upon us and Climate Change is again at the top of the agenda. We're being bombarded with propaganda, the latest being that this is the warmest decade on record. Government officials are queuing up to let it be known that anyone who has any reservations or a differing point of view about the fact the world is warming up are "flat earthers" and "deniers". The deniers tag is abhorrent with it's deliberate connotations with the holocaust.
The emails from the CRU suggesting that there's been deliberate omissions in data have been given little credence. Our State Broadcaster has announced the "science is settled" and has abandoned it's Charter to become a propaganda mouthpiece for the "warmists".
Maybe the world is hotting up. Maybe it's not. I don't know. Because I've never been given the evidence to make up my own mind. All I've seen and read is biased nonsense from both sides. No real raw evidence. Just Polar Bears on shrinking icebergs or parts of emails telling people to bury evidence that doesn't fit the agenda. The powers that be and scientists whose livelihoods depend on their being global warming have told us they have the evidence to hand and that's that.
If they can give me satisfactory answers to the following questions, I will take the inevitable crushing taxes that are coming my way in the name of 'saving the planet' with a stiff upper lip as I will then know I'm doing it to make sure my sons live in a sustainable world:
What has happened over the past 35 years which has changed the experts minds from predicting an impending ice age to rampant global warming? Something catastrophic must have occurred for such a sea change in their mindset.
How do you explain the warmth spikes over the centuries, including a time when you could grow grapes as far north as York, when there were no cars etc to increase the heat?
How is the current cooling of temperature within Antarctica explained?
Explain this and have a truly independent research centre, which does not have to work to a Government Agenda to receive its grants and I'll be satisfied. Some of us want data and answers. We are not all brain deads who will do as we are told just because Nanny tells us it's for our own good.
Music tonight from a classic Scottish band from the late 80s - Hipsway with Tinder - a slice of laid back pop. The whole album (eponymously named) is outstanding, no bad tracks and well worth a listen.
The emails from the CRU suggesting that there's been deliberate omissions in data have been given little credence. Our State Broadcaster has announced the "science is settled" and has abandoned it's Charter to become a propaganda mouthpiece for the "warmists".
Maybe the world is hotting up. Maybe it's not. I don't know. Because I've never been given the evidence to make up my own mind. All I've seen and read is biased nonsense from both sides. No real raw evidence. Just Polar Bears on shrinking icebergs or parts of emails telling people to bury evidence that doesn't fit the agenda. The powers that be and scientists whose livelihoods depend on their being global warming have told us they have the evidence to hand and that's that.
If they can give me satisfactory answers to the following questions, I will take the inevitable crushing taxes that are coming my way in the name of 'saving the planet' with a stiff upper lip as I will then know I'm doing it to make sure my sons live in a sustainable world:
What has happened over the past 35 years which has changed the experts minds from predicting an impending ice age to rampant global warming? Something catastrophic must have occurred for such a sea change in their mindset.
How do you explain the warmth spikes over the centuries, including a time when you could grow grapes as far north as York, when there were no cars etc to increase the heat?
How is the current cooling of temperature within Antarctica explained?
Explain this and have a truly independent research centre, which does not have to work to a Government Agenda to receive its grants and I'll be satisfied. Some of us want data and answers. We are not all brain deads who will do as we are told just because Nanny tells us it's for our own good.
Music tonight from a classic Scottish band from the late 80s - Hipsway with Tinder - a slice of laid back pop. The whole album (eponymously named) is outstanding, no bad tracks and well worth a listen.
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