The weather round here
today is wild, the Ghost Writer was in his office today and the windows were
rattling and it appears this little bit of
Britain is smack in the middle of the red bit on the BBC weather map. He
has also had a grim trip back here as the roads are also rather flooded as the
snow that fell over the Kerry ridgeway (the local hills) in the last two days
all thawed today. They have been talking
of 100mph winds and so the power has been on and off here and there, and I have
heard that several roads are closed due to power lines and trees getting blown
down. Still we are still much better off
than some parts of Britain
The Ghost Writer also has
the added problem that his place of work may close in a few weeks due to
finance issues and a huge lump of plutonium sort of accidently falling out of
its housing. When I say housing it was in the freezer for safe keeping as the
freezer is cool and made of metal, so it seemed like a good place to put
it. It is not my fault I forgot to take
it home and then could not remember where I left it, but it appears folk get a
bit funny about plutonium in freezers in an office full of folk.
In other news I am doing
that rather strange A to Z thing in April again this year, I know what you are
thinking what is an A to Z, but it is a blog thing that us folk who use blogs
for what ever reason (a diary in my case) do in April. It can be jolly good fun
if you approach it correctly or it can be rather stressful if you are not
organized. Yes I am not known for being organized what so ever, but then I can
produce alphabet based gibberish until the cows come home, so it is easier for
me. And this year I am one of the back room boys doing my bit behind the scenes
for the main man……. I have promised to be good and not shout at people or go LOOK at this bit of Plutonium . . . .
PHEW it is windy out there, I
will run off now and try and turn a cat into a cat Kite (the flying device not
the chocolate wafer thing . . . . . . . HA HAHH H HAH HA HAHHAH HA HAH AH HA HA
HAH HAHA HAH AH ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha)
OOOOOOOo look a
seagull and other stuff . . . .There is
a lot of stuff blowing about tonight so keep your head down . . . .
The weather has been horrendous hasn't it? can't go out and getting bored, thank God I have my pc for company.
ReplyDeleteIndeed the weather has been rather destructive today around these parts, but luckily we are still up and running. It is going to be a windy night on the borders.
DeleteI am so confused why plutonium would find its way into a freezer, but more so why anyone would do the A-Z Challenge. I do hope it doesn't lead to burnout like it does for so many other bloggers I enjoyed before they dropped off the writing map after trying to participate in the challenge.
ReplyDeleteAh yes the A to Z I have done the A2Z three times now and am OK with it, partly because I am used to blogging most days. I also have very very very themed posts so it makes it easier (sort of). I even did a forth A to Z entirely on my own just for the hell of it, just to work out the best way to do it. And although in theory Sunday is the day off I tend to do something on Sundays also.
DeleteI think the problem is folk expect so much of it and it does not always bring the masses of new followers and hits that people expect. Lets face it none of us are super human and can post everyday and still get round and comment on five hundred other blogs it is impossible. I think this then leads to a huge anticlimax and folk just get disheartened and give up blogging.
I will still be here long after the A to Z as long as the real world does not throw anything nasty at me, such as floods, powers cuts, high winds, falling trees or aliens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AH DAMN
I think I will write a post in the next couple of days on a guide to surviving the A to Z
DeleteIt soundz like a great time for a Great Britain vacate shun. I desparately need a vacate shun. Parts of me think they are overly worked and parts of me are almost in agreement. I am currently waiting not for the chicken to cross the road to get to the other side, but instead I am waiting for chicken fajitas to travel 3.1 miles, traveling many streets, crossing intersections. I have even delayed Cooper's 9 PM Cheese alarm so that he eats his chicken first. Now back to reading, I haven't got to the plutonium part yet .....
ReplyDeleteI feel you need to train the chicken to fly the 3.1 miles through as many windows as possible, and you may need to add .01 of a mile to allow for this
DeleteYou will then be able to say you are still using Windows 3.11 to control your chicken based food.
Hahahahaha - I still remember Windows 3.11, at least I think that is the version of Windows that started with in April of 1994 when our lab moved down the street and we set up the chromatography lab with Turbochrom software from Perkin Elmer.
DeleteI am also signed up for the A-Z, as much to prove to myself I can beat the curse that nearly took me out last year. And also because this year if you complete the challenge this year you get your very own piece of plutonium instead of that miserable badge that doesn't do anybody any good, it's certainly not like you can build a bomb with a badge, I mean who ever heard of thermobadgualar weapons, that doesn't even make sense, and I'm pretty sure my brain won't melt this year, probably.
ReplyDeleteTake care on the A to Z, Mr Flip I plan to write a comprehensive guide to the A to Z in the next couple of days...
DeleteThermobadgualar weapons sounds good to me. Although it does sound a bit like the ultimate Badger cull device
I am loving the crazy weather. The storm took out a water main in my town. Not a surface-water line. A water main. Like, underground.
ReplyDeleteIf I could high-five a storm, I probably would.
And then I'd remember that I couldn't take a shower this morning, and probably high-minus-five it.
A shower seems a bit like a bus mans holiday in this weather. It appears there is a way to go yet before it changes too. . . . Strangely it may mean the only dry place in Britain is your shower.
DeleteI'm looking forward to your post about surviving the A-Z. I'd love some tips from a veteran such as yourself. Stay safe out there. Our weather here has been terrible too. Blech!
ReplyDeleteElsie
AJ's wHooligan in the A-Z Challenge
It is now posted, I am not entirely sure how helpful it will be but it will sort of let folk know some of the good and bad.and hopefully let some of those who are new to it know what to expect, sometimes folk can have huge expectations of what it will achieve.
DeleteGlad you're part of A - Z :) Stay safe!
ReplyDeleteI am working hard at remaining safe, and glad to be part of the A to Z.
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