I like crime dramas, but I like one off stories or where the episodes are limited to 6-8. I refuse to watch shows that I can see going on and on....often with no resolution since they don't want to kill the golden goose. I learned that lesson from Lost and Prison Break. I sometimes set the recorder, then delete without watching.
It's absolutely appalling. Until china and the Arab countries learn that rhino horn has absolutely NO medical (or otherwise) use, it's jus going to get worse. 1000 rhino a year killed in South Africa
Yeah we've been inundated over the last couple of years with them. Also a lot of medieval fantasy which slowed after LOTR and was reinvigorated by GoT.
Well pepys, you've got me again today until these bloody packages come. My latest understanding is that it might not be until tomorrow now. Playing havoc with my work. Hmm, what's broken that I can easily fix.?
I hear that FLT is off to apply for a job cleaning Kylie's windows! http://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainm...minogue/ar-AAnZO1s?li=AAmiR2Z&ocid=spartanntp
Update on the tardy arrival of my packages. May I give some advice to anyone halting their life to do the same. Commit to something else while waiting. I decided that an old faulty hi-fi cassette deck could do with 20 minutes of attention, because I wanted to transfer some audio to mp3 anyway. I barely got the lid off and peered around at the thing when the postman knocked the door. Ho hum.
Malta's Azure Window has crashed into the sea. Featured in the first episode of Games of Thrones [wedding scene], the famous arch and stack was thought to be on the point of just becoming a stack, with the arch crumbling into the sea. But reports appear to be suggesting that the whole lot has gone, with the stack disappearing too. Here's how it was until this morning around 9.40 am local time. please log in to view this image
That's a shame....was there a few years ago. Same thing happened here a while ago....the Arch Rock in Freshwater Bay collapsed. The Bay still looks nice, but an attractive feature gone.
It's very odd that there have been no photos posted on the internet of the result (just checked) - alternative fact?
I dreamt once that Durdle Door collapsed, and I was so relieved when I found it hadn't. These natural features all play an important part in people's lives and memories, and they will leave a big hole (no pun intended) if they are no longer there.
Ever since I saw Durdle Door as a kid I've been waiting for it to collapse. One of the iconic things that got me interested in Geography/Geology/Environment. I didn't know about the Arch Rock collapsing. I'll look that up. There's also Logan Rock in Cornwall, which is a balanced rock, and some stupid twerp made it become unstable. That's one even has a pub named after it. Good one too.
Nope, they just haven't appeared yet. There are a couple of not entirely convincing Youtube videos. But it was announced on the BBC News website. It's one thing I'd prefer to be fake.!
Logan's Rock was unbalanced by some naval students from Dartmouth as I recall. And it wasn't destabilised, it was moved so it didn't rock any more at all!
Exactly. They also give one an alternative sense of time. Things like cliff and land retreat is all about a dynamic natural world in flux, yet we inevitably take for granted the land around us as a constant in our lives. These events jar us out of this cosy sense of constancy when they dramatically change.
Oh well, in that case, that's almost forgiveable. One day during one summer I was in that pub and was talking about The Rock, and afterwards I took a walk across the fields, eventually to climb onto it. Took photos etc... Anyway, weeks later, when I got back home, developed the photos, I realised I was on the wrong rock.
