This is snow - not those pathetic few centimetres in the south east that have brought the whole of the northern hemisphere to a halt (as it has according to the southern-centric news.) Using centimetres makes it sound worse than it is eg 15cms cf 15 inches Big difference - same figures.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4pJwcE7JI
Which design idiot decided that the best place for Caps Lock is beside a very commonly used letter?
I got my Certificate of Regularisation (say that after a drink or two!) for the work done in the kitchen - what a relief. The moral is to take detailed pictures at every step just in case. Without them I'd have had to have had a lot of work undone and then redone. A dozen digital images cost nothing either.
And speaking of a drink or two - HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIGHTBULB!!!! :-)))))
130 years ago today Joseph Swan demonstrated his incandescent light bulb in our Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society's 800 seater lecture theatre where there was standing room only. It is heartbreaking that the lecture theatre was removed in the 1960s but what would we do now with what would have been a Grade 1 listed 800 seater Victorian, tiered semicircular lecture theatre? Tonight we had a lecture to 40 and the Society was presented with a plaque recognising the event. We'd have had a listed white elephant and no rooms to lease out so less income. It was probably uncomfortable anyway. Heartbreaking though -we sold the Assyrian slabs brought back from Ninevah (Mosel in Iraq) by Williaam Loftus in order to pay for the destruction - just as he destroyed archaeological sites in order to find things.
Of course Swan was a Mackam ie from Sunderland which is even better ..... However, we quaffed a glass or two of wine and afterwards partook of a drop or two of Ale in the Head of Steam.
I suppose 130 years isn't too bad for a piece if technology. 78s, LPs and CDs din't last that long.
Steam power has lasted though.....
There's nothing like the smell of coal fired steam locomotives ..... ahh.
I was going to write something else but have been chatting on fcebook with my son who lives in Essex now.
So Nos da.
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Well, happy birthday light bulb, glad the celebrations went well.
ReplyDeleteOf course, had the lecture theatre been intact, there may have been other ways of using it to bring in income, large conferences are always seeking interesting venues, but alas it's gone now.
I still can't open that link though!