Green musings

Posted on Tue 23 September 2008 in general

Cambridge has been improving it's kerb-side recycling scheme to include plastic bottles which will make another dent in our total black bag waste volume. While some people complain about the two week rubbish cycle we haven't found it that bad. Currently pretty much all of our vegetative waste going on …


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Everybody's favorite topic?

Posted on Mon 22 September 2008 in general

I keep having to re-adjust my expectations of the weather down here. As we approach the depths of September it's not unknown to have nice crisp sunny days as the weather attempts to make up for it's disappointment for the summer proper. To that end we went for a walk …


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Yarrr

Posted on Fri 19 September 2008 in general

Yarr, tis morning I mounted my fine vessel for the first time since me experience of tasting the salt of da road on Monday. I was a wonderin' why the chain had come away, perhap some plan by the revenue them scurvy bilge rats? Despite that I made good time …


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History repeating

Posted on Wed 17 September 2008 in general

Has anyone seen the rather excellent documentary The Smartest Guys in the Room? It analyses the Enron scandal and the hows and whys it happened. They had been indulging in accounting fraud where they hid losses and inflated assets until the wheels came of and the hole house of cards …


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Newton was right

Posted on Mon 15 September 2008 in general

It seems Newton knew what he was talking about when he formulated the laws of motion. I'm not entirely sure what happened but I had just made an avoiding manoeuvre for the large truck coming through the traffic calmed pinch-point just down the main road. For some reason my front …


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