Parents are too quick to blame other drivers for accidents involving children.
But here we have some parents takeing the “rules don’t apply to me” line, or should I say ZigZag
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Some while ago my wife brought me a Maplin badged, Watson WH1081 weather station. It has an outdoor unit which measures temperature, wind speed and direction, humidity and rain fall. A wireless indoor unit then displays and logs the data. The indoor unit also has a USB port allowing it to be connected to a computer of some description.
The Software that comes with it is fairly basic, however http://sandaysoft.com offers some free and very powerful software call cumulus.
The cumulus software will talk to the indoor unit, manage the data logger, produce charts as you might expect. Then come the great stuff, it has built in tools to upload the data to a web site of your choosing, via FTP, as well as uploading the data to several weather services. A recent addition to the feature set is twitter. Cumulus will now send a tweet on a predefined regular basis with a summary of the current weather conditions
Mine is now tweeting to http://twitter.com/abbeymeadwx
A Day out at Slimbridge Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
simple shot, on route to school
Today my son turned 13
When I was 13 a handfull of my friends did not have a home phone, nights/days out had to be arranged by the time you left school or did not happen, homework was handwritten, home computers where rare, and ran at 4MHz with between 1 and 16kB of memory, hard disk where unheard of outside corporate circles and a 10 MB disk drive was the size of a washing machine. My TV was a 12 inch black and white portable which recieved THREE channels
Today, 98% of teenage kids have ther own personal mobile phone, a night out can be arranged by text, twitter, facebook, msn from the moble phone while on route to the destination. For his last history project, jake created a well edited 8 minute video and for his next it is a web site, the phone in his pocket runs at 500Mhz and has 8GB of memory, his (yes his own personal) laptop has 2GB memory 2x 2G Hz processors and a huge 250 GB hard disk drive. Jakes TV is a 42inch plamsa with all the toys and over 300 channels to chose from
Oh to be a teenager today
On the flip side when I was a teenager coping a grope with the teenage girl next door was considered a laugh, making a factual reference to someones ethnic background was the norm, and clipping a kid round the ear for scrumping apples was a daily summer time event…… today any of those would get you arrested
Just spent the entire weekend camping with local scout, cub and beaver troop
Great weekend, but man do I ACHE this morning
what a great day out
small country town fayre
one of my pathetic attempts at artistic photos
Some while ago??I wrote this “Someone living near me has been a naughty boy”
Well the presence of the stange BMW has continued, and can occasionlay be seen on weekends
However yesterday saw an intersting development.
A different car, parked same spot with two people with clips boards, acoompanied but TWO, yes TWO EON, power vans, small meter changing type vans, not the big, power fault, dig up the road trucks,
My thinks someone has has the lecky cut off….
