“That'll be £5.35, please.”
“Sorry, I've only got a tenner… Oh, hold on, I think I've got the 35p!”
“That's 45p.”
“Two A-levels in mathematics, don't you know?”
They're going to save the planet, apparently
BBC: Wind farms affect local weather
Wind farms can affect weather in their immediate locality, raising night-time temperatures on the ground, researchers working in Texas have shown.They used satellite data to show that land around newly constructed wind farms warmed more than next-door areas.
The result - published in the journal Nature Climate Change - confirms an earlier, smaller study from 2010.
State-funded brain-washing
BBC: Catholic pupils 'invited to sign anti-gay marriage petition'
Education Secretary Michael Gove is to examine claims the Catholic Education Service (CES) broke impartiality rules on the topic of gay marriage…"Schools have a responsibility under law to ensure children are insulated from political activity and campaigning in the classroom," said a Department for Education spokesperson. "While faith schools, rightly, have the freedom to teach about sexual relations and marriage in the context of their own religion, that should not extend to political campaigning."
Rightly? Would it be equally right for so-called faith schools to have the freedom to teach the biological sciences, say, ‘in the context of their own religion’?
Ch-ch-changes were involved
Thanks to the Gruts reader (you know who you are), who reminded me that I had forgotten to draw your attention to this:
Darwin meets Bowie: what's not to like? Apart from Phil Collins on drums, I mean.
Unconventional, I know…
… but I always insist on filing the Good Captain under ‘B’.
Alternative history
Had Henry VIII's elder brother, Arthur, Prince of Wales, not died before their father, Henry VII, he would have become King Arthur.
But, seeing as how the Tudors believed that the King Arthur of legend had been a genuine King of England, the new Arthur would presumably have been crowned Arthur II (not to be confused with Arthur 2, an indescribably bad film starring the late Dudley Moore).
This would mean that, for modern scholars, there would have been a King Arthur II, but not a King Arthur I. Which would have been pretty confusing, if you think about it. Which I have been doing—because I tend to worry about these sorts of things.
Perhaps it's just as well that Arthur, Prince of Wales popped his clogs when he did.
I'm just saying, that's all.
Bygones
It's good to see America and North Korea finally trying to patch up their differences:
Hands up if you're a knob-head
Please don't tell any of our friends, but…
Jen and I cooked a vegetarian meal last night, and it was bloody brilliant: Mediterranean and Basil Pasta.
We then discussed which meat or fish we would add to make it into food. My money's on sardines, but it's just a hunch.
Run, paint, run run!
Us top-flight artists don't usually do requests, but what the heck…
