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A quicky from the news in case you missed it…

80 per cent of Americans surveyed by the CNN TV news network believe that their government is hiding evidence of the existence of space aliens.

alrighty then!

              

Ever thought about why certain people don’t eat certain things?

I’m thinking about this because I spoke to a friend of mine last night, who I’m meeting up with for some food next week and is possibly the fussiest (real word?) eater I know.

If it was allergy related, I’d understand.. or some other condition that put restrictions on his diet, ok, fair enough… but its not, he’s just a fussy bar steward.

Thank god he’s chosen the restaurant… cunning tactic on my part to avoid what happened last time…

walk walk walk… “how about here?”… “no, I can’t see anything I’d eat”…

walk walk walk… “this looks nice?”… “they use garlic in here, I think I want something with rice” (I didn’t understand that either, or find it weird till I thought about it afterwards!)..

wander wander wander… “Ahhh, chinese! yes?”.. “they use MSG in here, I read thats bad for you” (true, but come on!!!)

you get the idea… any way, about 40mins later we went to…. yates! Oh dear. Well, the food was palatable I suppose.

Why are some people so fussy? I don’t eat everything… but I’ll give it a go!

I think part of it is, good ol’ fear of the unknown! Seriously. How many of you can name someone who won’t eat anything they’ve not had before? If they’re like this, challenge them head on to try something new and ask why… the answers are great!

“I don’t know if it’d agree with me” - coool, more laughs for me if it doesn’t.
“it might be too spicy” - again, here’s some water… red faces n tears make me laugh….
“I don’t know if I’d like it” - man, how do you get out of bed in the morning???

My weird thing was, I would never eat ketchup. One day someone asked me why, you know what, I didn’t know why, I tried it and from that day forth unless I know it makes me gag (like muscles, snails n other shell-type animals!) I’ll eat it!

Todays motto: Try it, you might like it.

              

Mr Marky P!!!

For those of you that don’t know him, Mark is a scholar, gent, keraaazeee clubber… and gadget geek.

He would of been in my virtual yearbook as “most likely to have a blog”, what took you so long!?

Anyway, it made me think of something I’d meant to post ages ago, probably did, but just forgot…

If you’d like help, or you’d like me to make you a blog on your website (IE with your own address), drop me an email… or do as Mr Marky P has and use one of the free ones like blogger, who host it for you.

have a good weekend y’all!

              

dum dum duuuuuu

Yes, for once, I agree (mostly) with some of the additional legislation being bought in by the EU!!

(so how many of you stopped reading at this point? hahaha well, anyway…)

The new legislation is called: REACH - Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals

Basically this means that chemicals you use everyday will need to be tested to see if they pose any risk to health.

It’s worrying that things like household cleaners (which you happily spray/smear and generally coat your house with) are not tested for possible harmfull effects to health; There is already evidence to suggest that some cleaning products (aerosol polish if memory serves?) are possibly linked to increases in childhood asthma.

The legislation starts by testing the highest priority products like washing powder, (is it impossible to even envisage a connection between a chemical whose residue is constantly on your skin causing health effects?) cleaning chemicals but extends to include everything eventually.

Good work EU. Why didn’t we do this sooner? (I’m hoping Dr Emilio Estaplez is going to comment and tell me we already do)

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Well yesterday was a weird ol’ day!

I left my house just as the power cut happened about 930am, assuming it was quite a local outage, I thought I’d take the chance to go to asda… nope, everywhere off.

Can’t describe the atmosphere as I walked around, people stood outside office blocks having a quick fag while they worked out what was going on, no power anywhere except emergency lights.. traffic chaos where the signals were off… then as the day wore on and it became known that power wasn’t likely till the next day, Bournemouth became a spooky ghost town!

Had to go out n take a few pics after dark, not sure they fully capture the atmosphere, but close. Nice change to eat dinner… cooked on my camping stove by candlelight!

Respect to Bliss and the off liscense down the road for opening in candlelight.

Makes me think about our impending energy crisis and how we’ll all be knackered when we run out of oil unless stuff changes… but hey, no-one cares right? I mean, lets not bother to take any action until the power actually runs out… hmmm.

              

Well they’re all up… must admit.. had a minor jiggory-pokery with a couple… like this one…

enjoy.

PS apologies, looks like comments were disabled somehow, while I was away, think its rectified now!