Weekly Quote - W/E 28/11/09

"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine that she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has been neither ill health nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost." - Persuasion, Jane Austen

What is it?

It's a grass grater!!

One of the joys of working in a school is that the pupils say silly things - they say them because they're silly and don't known stuff, which is great fun! Unfortunately we have to teach them the right stuff, which is less fun sometimes!

Word of the post: Quizzical –adjective

1.	odd, queer, or comical.

2.	questioning or puzzled: a quizzical expression on her face.

3.	derisively questioning, ridiculing, or chaffing.

Weekly Quote - W/E 21/11/09

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." - Dune, Frank Herbert

Good book - I'm reading the sequels now.

Snow through the ages - 2004

More in my epic series of 'pictures I've got lying around on my computer' posts, this time some pictures of the British joy of snow, we start off in 2004, where we had a fairly mild smattering of now, according to my pictures, though bear in mind these pictures were taken in the winter and we tend to get snow from March to April these days!!

November 04















A light smattering of snow on the ground - as I recall I took this to send on MSN to a friend as were were competing as to who had the biggest snow, while it was building up.


December 04
















A slightly heavier shower of the white stuff descended on a car, but all in all '04 wasn't a fantastic year for snow, or at least the scant documentary evidence I have would suggest this - more snow and picture posts coming up - they get better honest!!

Word of the post: Quiz –noun

1.	an informal test or examination of a student or class.

2.	a questioning.

3.	a practical joke; a hoax.

Weekly Quote - W/E 14/11/09

"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existance; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." - Emma, Jane Austen

The Backwards Olympics

I decided to test whether it is possible to find anything that pops into your head on YouTube - the evidence is fairly conclusive.



Word of the post: Noon –noun

1.

midday.

2.	twelve o'clock in the daytime.

3.	the highest, brightest, or finest point or part: the noon of one's career.

4.	Archaic. midnight: the noon of night.

Splinter Cell World Tour, part 3

To recap, the plan is to visit new and exciting locations in the world based on missions that appear in the award winning Splinter Cell video game series. I have no intention of repeating Sam Fisher's antics, but if carried out I would take a more leisurely approach to visiting these locations, especially this next one.

The Caspian Sea

Country: None
Area: 371,000 km²
Population: No fixed population
Language: N/A









Sam travels to the sea to infiltrate a meeting taking place on an oil rig by the nefarious parties uncovered in the Georgian missions. After clambering over, hanging under and crawling through an array of pipes he finally gets the proof he needs and after a short firefight escapes back to base. Not quite what I plan to do though meeting the oil industry in some form is likely as most of the neighbouring countries have significant interests in it's mineral wealth with full towns being built around mining operations.












Again this is a location I'd like to visit because I know very little about it, I knew about it, but mainly because it shares it's name with a certain Narnian prince! The landlocked mass would also be a fascinating place to visit due to the number of cross-cultural links it creates and the diversity of it's ecology.

The sea is home to a numbers of sub-species unique to it's location such as sturgeon, which are in danger because of overfishing for caviar and it's other species such as the Caspian seal are also in danger from overfishing and environmental changes.

The areas surrounding the sea also have a diverse range of environments such as the mining towns, scrub land and even dense forests which would be fascinating to explore. I can't tell you much more as the main interests in the area seem to be mining, but I'm sure there would be plenty to explore!!











Well, that's it for now - where will I go next I wonder?

Word of the post: Frenetic –adjective

frantic; frenzied.

Weekly Quote - W/E 07/11/09

" 'You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair', said Anne reproachfully. 'People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble it is. Mrs Thomas told me that God made my red hair on purpose, and I've never cared about him since' " - Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery

A Bad Day at Work

Possibly the ultimate bad day at work captured in this video, it seems that no one was hurt otherwise National Accident Helpline would be having an early Christmas party!!

The video also features a cool baseketball goal and a prank on Taylor swift, enjoy or ignore the commentary as you will.




Word of the post: Blasé –adjective

indifferent to or bored with life; unimpressed, as or as if from an excess of worldly pleasures.

Weekly Quote W/E 31/10/09

"Fiver sat trembling and crying among the nettles az Hazel tried to reassure him. If he was terrified, why did he not run for safety, as any sensible rabbit would?But Fiver could not explain and only grew more and more distressed." - Watership Down, Richard Adams