It’s August Bank Holiday weekend, I’ve got the moodies due to Spurs legendary inconsistency, Mrs Blogger has got the heating on, and it’s raining. So, time to do a bit of house-keeping and catch up with all those part written posts and scribbled notes that are gnawing away at my conscience. And since Anna Raccoon has had a pop at Weggis on links I thought I’d take the advice of “Flesh” and do it as a link fest. But first:“Flesh” is getting excited about spending all next weekend [4-5th September] in a tent at Hainault Forest Country Park for the Offset Festival, which I missed on my earlier round up. Click that link for details.
Freewheeler highlights “Walk Redbridge” but is not too impressed with our Street clutter. I wonder if [s]he realises the significance of Deynecourt Gardens?
Derek treats us to an extract from Nature’s Bottom Line. A sort of “does my economy look big in this”?
Weggis spots a disguised Trident submarine.
In the Guardian, British Gas [I didn’t realise we still had any] say that homeowners could save up to £1,000 a year if they install solar panels. So what could our council save? Or the NHS? Or the House?
As we await another Redbridge Big Conversation on where to make
Meanwhile down in the south west things are moving apace with applications in the pipeline for solar parks to produce 750MegaWatts.
Just for Knowsie, here’s a lovely post on steam trains by Hannah.
And Eco-street highlights 50 new uses for old things.
Talking of reuse David Cameron is apparently going in for “Nudge Theory”. Also known as "libertarian paternalism" or "choice architecture", I think it means giving public sector workers the elbow? Or is it just another re-wording for using the levers of state to modify our behaviour? Meanwhile local resident and Union Leader Bob Crow accepts a 12% [£10,000] pay increase.
The Doctor muses on how great minds are prone to miss the bleeding obvious. So here’s a poem [the Doc likes poetry] on the subject.
Adessi, a PR company, have signed up for the 10:10 challenge and are keeping a blog on it. But they really ought to consider eating locally grown fruit instead of crisps. Note the link to this site in their side bar which they probably got from Cision.
And to round off, Suitably Despairing doesn’t like the term “Green Jobs”. It’s the word “job” I don’t like!
Now, I know what you are all thinking – what’s that picture at the top got to do with anything? The photograph was taken on Thursday 19th August. A day later the tree was back upright, presumably as a result of the council’s treemen. Yesterday morning, Saturday 28th August that tree had gone missing completely and was nowhere to be seen and the fence in the background had been knocked over. This is a notoriously dangerous bend in Fullwell Avenue and that fence “protects” the side/rear garden of a newly built house that is now up for sale. Just right for a family with young children who want to play in the garden in “safety” away from dangerous maniacs on the road!
If this solar array stuff works, the world's poorer regions will benefit. Relatedly, relatively low atmospheric temperature means the poorer northern parts of Scotland are looking good for data centres.
ReplyDelete"Down in the south-west": those arrays look quite ugly. With any luck it might put off some of the tourists and second-homers, which wouldn't be a bad thing!
ReplyDeleteI am reminded of the chap, who while out walking the Dales, got on his mobile phone to complain about the unsightly mobile phone mast he had encountered.
ReplyDeleteYes, that about sums it up.
ReplyDeleteBertrand Russell was a bit screwed up (comes of being in the aristocracy maybe) but he had some interesting stuff to say to this sort of behaviour:
"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence."
Inde.. de..de.. dy!
ReplyDeleteAh, yes. Steam trains - REAL trains from Glasgow Central to Euston! And London E1-class trams, and SA-class trolleybuses on routes 691 and 693; and Tilling ST-class buses with open staircases. All of them forms of transport to savour!
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