This one particular story is worth linking to for more reasons than this wonderful little snippet alone:
One day, high above Arizona , we were monitoring the radio traffic of all the mortal airplanes below us. First, a Cessna pilot asked the air traffic controllers to check his ground speed. ‘Ninety knots,’ ATC replied. A twin Bonanza soon made the same request. ‘One-twenty on the ground,’ was the reply. To our surprise, a navy F-18 came over the radio with a ground speed check. I knew exactly what he was doing. Of course, he had a ground speed indicator in his cockpit, but he wanted to let all the bug-smashers in the valley know what real speed was ‘Dusty 52, we show you at 620 on the ground,’ ATC responded. The situation was too ripe. I heard the click of Walter’s mike button in the rear seat. In his most innocent voice, Walter startled the controller by asking for a ground speed check from 81,000 feet, clearly above controlled airspace. In a cool, professional voice, the controller replied, ‘ Aspen 20, I show you at 1,982 knots on the ground.’ We did not hear another transmis sion on that frequency all the way to the coast
Seriously don’t mention the D word.
The D word is to blame why i don’t blog as much and because work is busy and my blog is a rollercoaster some months i feel like bogging and some months i don’t.
Ok i shall enlighten you all. The D word mean Dissertation, speak to any third year doing their undergraduate dissertation and you calmly don’t mention the D word around them as they will be trying to juggle it around essays, sports and having a social life. I on the other hand are juggling it around working full time work, and that it for the moment, but come September i know that will change as the new hockey season will be under-way and i know my social life will in defiantly pick up since people will be returning to Chester.
But on a plus note although i dont like mentioning the D word, i am actually currently on track with my Dissertation, today i wrote my third chapter, which gives me a running total of 5000 words written so far out of three chapters. Pretty good going so far, write the next big chapter which will be about 4000 words will mean i will be nearly half way through my dissertation.
Now all im waiting on is my feedback from the ethics committee which would be rather nice, so i know its been ethically approved.
Isn’t home grown organic food better? well i prefer organic food, its better as there’s no chemical’s involved which has to be a good thing. My parents, particularly my mum has a vegetable and fruit patch which up until a couple of summers ago was part of the lawn. Its now our vegetable and fruit patch.
We grow a variety of things:
- Strawberry’s
- Raspberry’s
- Potatoes
- Leeks
- Onions
- Rhubarb
- Beans
- Peas
- Lettuce
- Tomatoes
- Marrows
looking from the right hand side
looking from the road
And in the Green House we Grow:
Yes that’s right Grapes, we have a grape vine in our greenhouse, which what started out as an experiment years ago, still grows and survives our harsh winters, Although the grapes arent very nice to eat they are great for making wine.
