London Adventure

We have just have two days London, learning about how to find a job in Canada, (if you are interested then you can read about it here http://get2canada.wordpress.com/our-ciip-experience/)

While not having our brains overloaded with very useful information, we found a pub that sold 2 drinks for £10 pounds. We are went to a very nice Thai restaurant and went to see The Women in Black. An awesome and dramatic ghost story with a few dramatic and scary moments which where made worse by a group of 14 year old girls who screamed at every little thing. The story was very good however the ending a little obvious.
The elder actor was Patrick Drury - and I spent a while trying to place where I had seen him before and it turns out he was in Father Ted.

He was the shop keeper John O'Leary, who always argued with his wife, a very different role from this one.

bargain?

We did another carboot sale today and I can now spot a buyer, from a browser, from a bargain hunter from a chancer.

Buyers - attack your car before you unpacked it - looking for anything collectible. Their favourite thing is to ask have you got any instruments, Lego, mobile phones...

Browsers - these are the people that come to see what other are selling, they maybe looking for a specific item but generally just like to have a look a round. Most people fall in to this category.

Bargain hunters - these are regular at car bots an will knock some money usually 50p off whatever you say the price is. this is not to bad cos as a seller you have just added an additional 50p to the price.

Chancers - these people amaze me, the will ask for a ridiculous amount items. A lady next to us was selling a large piece material, which could have made several cushions and she had told us earlier in the day that she wanted to get rid of it so was selling it cheap - 30p. She was asked how much, said 30 p and chancer said that was too expensive!

Another lady was selling cushions at 50 p each (a reasonable price for a cushion), when asked the price she said '50p each' the chancer then said "50p for 5"!

Finally, in a personal case, we had a fan heater that we where selling a 3 pounds, we were asked how much? "£3" we said - 50p said one guy, £1 said another Chancers! "no" we said.

It surprises me every time we sell stuff, that what we think are good/bargain prices then some others think are ridiculous high and will chance their arm with a stupidly low price.

Steve and Lucy's Wedding

On the 21st may My cousin Steve married Lucy at the Esplanade hotel, Newquay with wonderful views of Fistral beach.

Steve was very nervous but is all went wonderfully well and a awesome time was had by all.

I have just been looking through the photographer's photo and have found an awesome one of my mum with Lucy's bouquet (and she didn't even have to catch it) and a very nice family pic.

The photographer, allows free downloads for facebook (and blogs!) which I thought was a great idea.

A great day was had by all and Wayne and I wish they lots of happiness in their married life.

Hello

Yo!

I am back.

It has been a busy year and a bit since I last posted.

The biggest news is that we are imigrating to Canada and have lots of fun sorting out the visas.

Will update you about that later and then keep you all updated as to how it is all going shortly.

speak to you sooner than last time.

Free Bread

some time poeple do nice things...like bake bread and give it to the towns folk


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/8522830.stm

but there is always someone that want to spoit it

Police in the town warned people not to eat the bread in case it was contaminated.

Sime people have no faith !

‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees should be kicked into touch

Richard Pike, Chief of the RSC has issued a statement on Science education


‘Mickey Mouse’ degree courses should be swept away, and priorities in university education and research should reflect the challenges facing the country over the forthcoming decades.
No longer should the government be paying 18-year-olds to start courses on celebrity journalism, drama with waste management, or international football business management. These courses should be kicked into touch, especially at a time when the UK is desperately short of funding research into Alzheimer’s and other diseases of ageing, alternative energy sources and wider, more effective health care provision, all of which depend on leading-edge work in the fundamental sciences.
Massive cuts in the science budget have already been announced in this country at a time when President Barack Obama is seeking $66bn, an increase of 5.9% over 2010 levels, to address the strategic priorities on the other side of the Atlantic.
The number of undergraduates studying chemistry, physics, biology and mathematics here had stayed relatively constant over many decades, and the enormous expansion witnessed in tertiary education was largely in the non-science sector. This sector, too, played a vital role in the development of the country, and our future relies on exploiting the synergies provided by a workforce with a wide range of skills, but we now need some realism over the way ahead.
We need a population with an enduring set of skills, such as an understanding of the physical world around us, literacy and communication, numeracy, how to function and continue to learn in a complex society, and above all creativity, rather than an ability to satisfy some ephemeral demand that in ten years time will be viewed as a curiosity.
To take a leaf out of the US’s book, that means that science must not be cut in the same proportion as other subjects at university, but its central role for the future of this country recognised, and funding effectively ‘ring fenced’, so that in effect it becomes a more dominant component.
This is not a question of pleading a special case; such a move is essential if we are all to enjoy the lifestyle we have become accustomed to, and to ensure that we are prepared for the changes that will affect us all in the future. '

Here here Say's I

Chemistry: A Volatile History

Yes I am still alive...

Anyway here is a good science program for you to watch either tonight on BBC Four or on iplayer.

It is Chemistry: A Volatile History www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00q2mk5

Well it should be good, the Rsc are raving about it.

personally I think the BBC should move these types programmes from BBC 4 to BBC 2 where more people are likely to watch something and maybe learn something interesting too....

but that's just my opinion