Do snails have a sense of direction. According to a recent experiment, they do.
Have a look at the BBC Radio 4 Material World website - "So you want to be a scientist?"
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
To outstay one's welcome!
A few years ago I bought a marvellous container for cooking rice in the micro-wave and used it a lot until I got lazy. Yesterday, having run out of my "boil in the bag" type I got the old container out to wash it and refresh my memory how to use it. Low and behold!! I was not the only one interested in it, as the instructions inside were torn to bits!
I know who the culprit is. A year ago we had a very frendly mouse visiting us for "B and B". I thought he had gone eventually but obviously he had decided to stay on without telling me and had discovered my nice container and had taken up residence.
I spent ages trying to put all the bits of grubby paper together but was not successful and gave it up as a bad job.
Back to "boil in the bag"!!
Polly.
I know who the culprit is. A year ago we had a very frendly mouse visiting us for "B and B". I thought he had gone eventually but obviously he had decided to stay on without telling me and had discovered my nice container and had taken up residence.
I spent ages trying to put all the bits of grubby paper together but was not successful and gave it up as a bad job.
Back to "boil in the bag"!!
Polly.
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
Things past
I happened to listen to a conversation of two people talking of things past.
The past for me is yesterday and I thought of how others "see" the past.
So... here are some answers to the question of what has past for you?
Organ grinders, organ grinders with monkeys,
street musicians, escapologists, Pearly Kings and Queens,
men with bowler hats and umbrellas, rag and bone men ,
horse drawn carts, tinkers, knife sharpeners, typewriters .
Add as many as you like to your changing world.
Walter Vego
The past for me is yesterday and I thought of how others "see" the past.
So... here are some answers to the question of what has past for you?
Organ grinders, organ grinders with monkeys,
street musicians, escapologists, Pearly Kings and Queens,
men with bowler hats and umbrellas, rag and bone men ,
horse drawn carts, tinkers, knife sharpeners, typewriters .
Add as many as you like to your changing world.
Walter Vego
perfect diet
Do you feel over-informed? Or are you suffering from information over-load?
YES, you are.
I read...almost compulsively...the information on nutrition given on anything eaten or drunk.
Now just writing the word "drunk" reminds me of the nutritional information on a bottle of whiskey. Incidentally, such information seems to be absent from the cheaper brands. The information reads as follows: Protein 0%....Carbohydarte....trace.....Fat 0%.
Question
Why is whiskey not promoted as the perfect diet for weight loss plus the added "feel good factor"?
Walter Vego
YES, you are.
I read...almost compulsively...the information on nutrition given on anything eaten or drunk.
Now just writing the word "drunk" reminds me of the nutritional information on a bottle of whiskey. Incidentally, such information seems to be absent from the cheaper brands. The information reads as follows: Protein 0%....Carbohydarte....trace.....Fat 0%.
Question
Why is whiskey not promoted as the perfect diet for weight loss plus the added "feel good factor"?
Walter Vego
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