These plants, both spotted with rain were taken in Abbey House Gardens, Malmesbury.
I always marvel at how vibrant garden colours are after a rain shower, especially when the sun shows it’s face too. It is a stark contrast to how most people feel when it is actually raining.
I must admit I like to sit curled up with a warm drink and from the safety of my armchair watch the rain fall on my garden. I also like to hear it on the windows at night when I am tucked up in bed. Not to mention the occasional forest walk as the rain falls gently down, making a soft pattering noise through the trees. Ah how wonderful of nature to treat us to such simple pleasures in life
For more of this weeks PhotoHunt pictures check out tnchick.
Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen of Earth and all native intelligences
of the forty planets, satellites, moons, stars,
and any other inhabited orbs
with contestants entered in the annual Grande Trex,
the only inter-galactic race.
This year’s event promises excitement to surpass all previous races.
As many of you fans already know the route or track of the orbits, glides, etc.
has been increased by 5,000 million kilometers
thus enabling Grande Trex to include the B’Arc System,
in our present event and for all succeeding GT races.
Dragonfly Dragonfly
Satellite
Strike and fight
What’s a drag race? Can’t you see those dragons
Speeding up the street
But I learned they weren’t real
Figments of the ancient fear
Rapid scan radians
For the chance
To win the Grande
Maneuvers preprogramme
Windage
Won’t operate
Negative bearing swell
Dragons fly they symbolize in myth and saga breathing fire
Look up there’s one flying higher
Faster than the SCC
Is science hiding witchery?
Grande Trex fans throughout the universe are well informed
on the risks pilots take in entering this race, i.e.
re-entry into some of the alien atmospheres is tricky business
which can cause a craft to implode, explode, melt,
lose automatic structure, etc., while en route.
The craft are scheduled to surface launch 0700.5100
Greenwich time and are assembled on one of our very own stars,
Neutron Einstar EV 9.
The excitement is at a fevered pitch as the countdown approaches zero.
These hypersonic inertial transition ships
can calculate the negligible quantity of spherical differential for tight orbit,
are sonar-radar balanced and translate windage occurrence,
offset verniers, retrieve, execute prepare,
delay code and report astrogational error in a micro-second.
Naturally these specialized craft are equipped with apparatus capable
of highly sensitive maneuverability.
They can dive, sweep, run random parallel paths,
alternate axes, circumnavigate for rapid survey, spin,
count milibaricly while simultaneously displaying an accurate diagram grid
for safety measures, not to mention the quanta limitation fixtures for sea level,
ground level, level off, and hover bearings.
We have retained as an added feature to stimulate more thrills,
the computer over-ride for a three and one half hours to two gens during
which pilots and co-pilots manually control free-fall, latitude,
longitude, protact gravity, revise dimensional equations,
run programme checks, submerge in the wild oceans of Jonrin 22,
to photograph as much territory as they can in addition
to the requisite three thousand automatic shots.
The postulate for mischance runs high but not as high as the tension
and competitive spirit right here on Earth and all over
the 4 galaxies represented in this Seventh Grande Trex.
Dragonfly rations glide
In free fall slide
System nullify
Satellite dragonfly
Surface launch
Radio silence
Hover high level off
The time space tactics saved us then
Display report present, urgent
Sequence counting surface launch
Dragonfly destroying all
Science claiming newest findings
Chanting calling flying dragons
Aboard all systems optimum
Nova scheduled war continued
Half the continental shelf burned by interval
Interval
The countdown is minus two hundred (-200)
and I am turning you over to the control room
at command central Sia Lan for the launch.
Good luck to all the racers and especially to our ship Dragonfly;
onward to victory.
(Remember comdirect and radio silence will temporarily be in effect.)
Win the race calibrate
Re-entry place
Multi fail safe
Apologies to anyone who got the above message when trying to access my blog earlier today. Once again the server was down due to circumstances beyond my control and all my sites were unavailable.
I have also managed to miss my book group yet again. Although not the same as discussing it I will review the book here instead.
On the plus side (or is that the minus side) my diet is going well
One of my PCS colleagues sent me an email about a forthcoming meeting and asked me to let other members of the PCS Shropshire group know when it was taking place. The email also said that on no account should I forward the original email out to the group. I complied with those wishes and as the original email had an attachment I left that out too.
Apparently that was wrong but instead of phoning me to explain what was required he phoned a colleague who sits round the corner from me at work. This second colleague then proceeded to phone me up and dictate a letter over the phone to me, which took some time. I was in the middle of processing over 20 Priority operational buys through our section so I got rather irritated about the total waste of everyone’s time. I began to feel like telling someone where they could stick their email… Maybe that is why I did not get phoned by the first colleague
I have also been trying to arrange a branch committee meeting and the first date I sent out was a disaster, only two people were able to attend. So I suggested we change the date to a more suitable one. I suggested this to colleague A who told me to phone colleague B to get a list of dates when he (colleague A) was available to attend the meeting. Didn’t he know himself when he was available??? The other problem was that it is always very difficult to get hold of colleague B and he doesn’t work in the same place as me. I did however manage to sort that one out although I still have to type up my dictated letter and send the email in my own time!
Now what were those girls up to today? Well today it was comparing bra sizes (there had been a fitting yesterday). I tried very hard with my selective deafness, but when someone starts shrieking your name at the top of their voice it becomes just a little difficult. Then there was the trying to see if the works pass with it’s cord would reach round the upper ribs, I am not sure what that was all about. To keep the peace I tried and was the only one who could manage this, it even overlapped. Suddenly I was no longer required for the conversation
Preston Tower is a 14th-century Pele Tower and was built in 1392, when warfare between England and Scotland was endemic.
At the time of Agincourt in 1415, it was one of 78 Pele Towers in the county. Its owners included Sir Guiscard Harbottle, who was slain fighting against James IV at the battle of Flodden in 1513, which brought Mary, Queen of Scots to the Scottish throne. *
Following the act of union in 1707 half of the Tower was pulled down with the stone being used for farm buildings on the estate. The tower has exhibitions within some of it’s rooms. The ground floor features a guardroom and a prison. The first floor has a living room and a bedroom furnished as they might have been around 1400. The second floor houses an exhibition on the battle of Flodden and some extracts from Border history and Border ballads. On this floor you can also see the workings of the magnificent clock. This was installed in the centre of the Tower in 1864. The mechanism is similar to that used for Big Ben and on the hour it strikes a bell which weighs around 1100lbs.
The top of the Tower is 200ft above sea level and there are magnificent views from the top, just be careful not to stand next to the turret that houses the clock bell when it is sounding. I have to admit I wasn’t quite brave enough to venture fully onto the roof.
On leaving the Tower the groundsman came and had a word and amongst other things relayed some interesting facts about the Tower. He is quite justifiably proud of the Tower. Whilst we were talking a lady turned up with a pile of phone books, he pointed out that there was no telephone in the Tower. She was actually a bit lost and couldn’t find many of the addresses on her list so he walked off with her to explain which houses had phones and how to find them.
Last week one of the girls at work was commenting that the youngest member of our team will soon be turning 20. Then she went on to remark that she was old enough to be his mother and I was old enough to by his grandmother. I know I have joked in the past that I am old enough to be his mother (which I am) but the figures don’t add up to turn that into grandmother status. The comment about me caused a stunned silence all around the office. I am not sure if the comment was supposed to be humour or if it was just thoughtlessness (again).
This girl has always had a hang up about age and loves to comment on other people’s ages and point out who is ahead of her in years. This year she is having one of those ‘will life change?’ ‘0′ birthdays!
Later in the day she got onto her favourite topic I felt obliged to tell her that she couldn’t possibly do that sort of thing any more. She has been telling us all for years that you shouldn’t after a certain age because that was just disgusting :-O
