Yep being a veggie, mrs no7 doesn't understand that food tastes good if you make it from scratch and nurture it.....
OK, one last little thought provoker for tonight. How far could we travel with the power of one square metre of Californian** sunlight hitting fertile ground? If we grew wheat on it one person could use it to walk 13 miles or cycle 25 miles per year. If we planted the best crop for biodiesel we would get 5 miles a year from an efficient diesel engined car. If we covered the square metre in a photo-voltaic solar panel we would get 1081 miles per year from an electric car or... wait for this... 21,000 miles per year on a good electric bicycle. So the Dutch and the Chinese were right all along. Cycling is the best way to get around and exercise you, but e-biking is super efficient. And you can always press the pedals if you fancy. ** latitude where the figures were obtained. However, it's not about light intensity, it's about daylight, so there's little advantage.
I'm a veggie these days. Or I am as much as I can be. I don't give people a hard time when going to restaurants. I'll eat meat if there's nothing else on the menu, but always veggie at home. My cousin, who is a heavy smoker**, talks about people's intake of salt, Like he's kidding himself. But occasionally I'll feed him and he asks if I eat too much salt. And I cook everything from scratch. I eat no processed food above bread and spreads. He eats sausage rolls from the corner shop, ready made savouries and sandwiches, savouries, doughnuts [ok, no salt but loads of sugar]. Basically, he's clueless. Because he keeps a horse he thinks he's 'down with the Earth' I believe. That's the only way I can explain such blinkeredness. ** He tells me he smokes less and less. He's been telling me for 25 years. By my reckoning he should be regurgitating cigarettes by now.
.... and grow it yourself. My bunnies are enjoying home grown green beans at the moment. They would have enjoyed home grown kale too, but I forgot to plant it
It’s my birthday at the end of the month. My wife bought me one of those technology watches to measure things for last year’s birthday. I’ve cycled over 3,000 miles since then in less than a year. I’m chuffed with that. So I agree about cycling.
Bloody nice journey though. I'd probably only get back as far as Greece and then suggest she gets her own arse on a bike and get over here.
That’s funny, except that you’ve met her and we both know that she wouldn’t be telling me to come home!
On Jamaica Inn now. What a cracker! Nothing makes a story like a proper f*ckin nasty charismatic villain, and Joss Merlyn is exactly that. He's like a nastier version of Long John Silver. Also, set in the depths of Cornwall for all you Kernow lubbers.
Well I would, it's in my Archive. Either listen to it here or go to my archive: https://archive.org/details/@englishsettlement_ii You'll have to scroll to page 3 to find it. This is what you're looking for :
Car journeys, camping, in bed, in the background. Basically anywhere you don't want to be focused on a TV. I just remembered, clicking on the little roman building in that player takes you to the file in the archive where you can download the MP3 to any device that can play MP3s.
And of course Jamaica Inn is a real pub, at Bolventor on deepest darkest Bodmin Moor. Edit: Not many people know that Daphne du Maurier was married to Lt. General Frederick “Boy” Browning who was the deputy commander of the Airborne forces in Operation Market Garden, which came to grief at Arnhem in September 1944. It was Browning who famously said afterwards that he thought going for Arnhem was “a bridge too far”.
I tend to go back to listening to Jamaica Inn to minimise my Poldark withdrawal symptoms. This time will be the last.
Yeah TV is no problem. Never turn it on. I constantly have a book in hand but its not very practical in the gym haha
