I can't believe it's not better

BBC news story about unidentified yellow waxy substance. I found a lump of this stuff a couple of weeks ago, at a cove just around the corner from Cwmtydu. I thought it looked like beeswax, so I took it home with me! Hopefully it isn't nuclear waste...

I regularly see a Woodpecker feeding on my nuts. It's quite shy though. Also quite a few Red Kites soaring about.

Will try loading a shotgun with garlic. I'll let you know how it goes. (10 mins later)... Not very well. I'll try loading it with catsan.

Cool jpegs man.

A heat engine !

No tsunamis expected in the north sea with this? Or is that not possible.

Must have been human error Currently 4C. :lol:

Was ~1.5C about an hour ago, now ~4C!?? (Still clear, no clouds or nothing). Stunning day again though.

I can't understand why people don't believe in AGW. But, I can't see it being a problem for too long. Still, I suspect stuff will be hitting the fan for a while. And I suspect we'll lose a lot of biodiversity - but we're used to that.

No probs, Ive sorted all these sarcasted english out. Quite quick I think that they're not going to mess with us. Ho, ho they've seem to find it rather funny. Not so soon unfortunately for them - I'm willing to play along for so far... It will be interesting to hear how well these chaps have come in bothering to learn the welsh language. or chanel 4 That is is. Sod off. Follow us in the thing wotsit...

Did I ever tell you about the time in the summer, just after Lady P was burgled, we got burgled. Yes, whilst enjoying my Net-weather asbo, on one of the hottest, if not the hottest day in July? I left the kitchen window wide open, and it's about 1 foot deep. During the hotist day, when it reached about 36C outside and a disgusting 30C indoors, I changed the aquarium water 3 times that day (not completely) trying to keep it cooler (they are normally about 24C, the fish and shrimp). Anyway, that night mrs better had gone out with friends and I stayed up till about 1am on my todd the recluse I am. She came to bed about 2am, and at 3am she woke me saying "Did you here that?!" "Ugh" (Well I heard it too, but I was dreaming and still pi**ed). Maybe it's a cat I said (Hoping it was a cat - and not something worse...well there was a rat once). Suddenly there came the sound of somebody walking up the wooden stairs! Unmistakeable. Either a giant two legged cat, or (oh god) a burgliar! They must have heard us and decended back down. We both were sat up in bed, in the dark listening - for 2 mins? - waiting for a positive loud burgliar sound. Suddenly there was quite loud noises downstairs... That's not a cat! I leapt out of bed, (naked because I'm too young to wear pyjamas) and grabbed a pool que(!?). Just like in that film, a pool que wasn't good enough and I grabbed a standard lamp, without the lamp bit, so it was a pole. I went down stairs expecting to get jumped, brandishing this pole, pulsing with adrenaline, expecting to get jumped - (knives are in the kitchen downstairs and small kindling axe...) So, in the kitchen and I'm really hyped up - but there's nobody there! The fridge door was wide open though... and all the lights on. Still a bit dazed I was. "How did a cat open the fridge door??", I asked, stupourdily. Mrs better had to put me straight. Tick, tock, tick, tock - yikes! Then I thought the burgliar was behind the bathroom door. I pushed it and it wouldn't yield, all the way. "He's behind the f****ng door", I whispered (possibly). There was a reason why the bathroom door wasn't opening fully - that's because he was behind the bathroom door, right? So, I rammed this standard light shaft into the door at about 80% strength - this went through the front of the door and only slightly penetrated the other side. (I'm not a complete psycho O.K, else I would have added the other 20%). Of course, the skanky slim junky burgliar was long gone, out the window having taken the house keys and a digital camera that might be worth a fiver. The force behind the door, giving me the impression that there was someone behind there was infact a little wicker basket...(full of NS mags and other suchlike good toilet reading material). So, the moral of this story is - if you think there's a burgliar hiding in your house, and you go for the kill (80% of it) - you may find they're long gone, and you're just left with a door in your house with several big holes in it. And it's not even your house! Peace. (and you have to change all the locks of course). Excuse my English spelling - see you in the next world, with windy thing.

Right, this isn't working. I'm off back to Wales - I miss the elements, space, wind turbines, solar panels, hearing the wind rushing through the trees before it arrives, the sudden brightening of 12V dc lights, trying to get rid of unwanted energy in a wind, trying to conserve it in a lull, I could go on and on. Besides, 12 - 240v inverters have come down in price a hell of a lot. Oh, and I can't afford to stand up here.

Plenty of sunshine, windy, about 8C. 26mm rain since 7.30pm yesterday, heavy around 11.00pm last night.

Nearly 12.5C (also the max), light rain and generaly windy.

Shadowcat.

It's 12C, which is also the max today, light breeze and dry at the moment. Pretty windy earlier though. I'd let you know the rainfall, but my bucket's full of frogspawn.

Around 10.2C, I think it'll be a bit cooler than we've had lately. I think the two ends of the year will be almost shockingly wet. (but not in the SE corner-ish of UK, where it will be above average temps again and similarly low rainfall). And that's just the @@@@ing weather!

Wouldn't wet ground 'save up' high temp over a mild winter and give us a head start next year - oops I mean this year! (?) I'm wondering if the surface moisture wouldn't dissapear quite readily, as it seems to in my (clayish) garden - or does the deeper moisture continue wicking to the surface? Depends on soil type maybe?? Mind you, were not exactly getting more exposed soil surfaces as time goes on. Edit; oh, we probably are...

9.5C at the moment. Went down to Devon to that recycle centre place today, raining all along M5 both ways, heavy on the way back around 5-ish, raining this morning before I went and raining at the moment (quite large drops).

Quite windy here last night around midnight, dry today, overcast, light breeze, 10C.

It's not likely to carry on being overly warm without a bit of a dip, so good guess perhaps if it turns out.

7C and clouding over for good.

Quite breezy, some good sunny spells, 9C. Min 5C.

I'd of thought that was snow if I didn't know better. I can just imagine Stratos' 2CV, just out of the frame, below his own flat. :o

Not sure which way the wind's going but it was very strong gusting just then.