Latest astronomy research has concluded that there are at least some 17 billion earth size planets up there in space. Furthermore millions of these have probably already gone and I assume millions having been formed but from which light has not yet arrived. It makes you realise how large the whole cosmos is and how small we are, that the Earth is but the size of a grain of sand compared with all possible planets which together are the size of Earth.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20942440
About Me
- modelleroo9
- South-West of England, United Kingdom
- I am a retired cartographer and have recently completed a degree course as a mature student reading History. My main hobby is narrow gauge railway modelling.
Monday, 14 January 2013
A win at last !!!!!!!!
Well done Argyle, a win at last. So much about winning or losing is often just about whats in the a persons head, such is life. Managed a walk/push yesterday (Sunday), it was really sunny but cold here in South Glos. Trouble with this time of the year are the short days and when it's warm it's wet and when it's sunny it's cold.
New mini-layout is nearly ready for the SodburyVale MRC Exhibition. The new layout is based on an actual setting in Staffordshire. It will be interesting to see how it is received.
Watched an interesting programme last night (Sunday) on BBC about the the 5th Royal Tank Regiment. I was particularly interested in the part about the Sherman Firefly, because it was in one of those that my father fought with the 86th Anti-tank regiment (5th Devons) RA through Normandy and onto Hamburg in 1944-45.
Photo sourced from http://www.strijdbewijs.nl/tanks/sherman/m4eng2.htm
New mini-layout is nearly ready for the SodburyVale MRC Exhibition. The new layout is based on an actual setting in Staffordshire. It will be interesting to see how it is received.
Watched an interesting programme last night (Sunday) on BBC about the the 5th Royal Tank Regiment. I was particularly interested in the part about the Sherman Firefly, because it was in one of those that my father fought with the 86th Anti-tank regiment (5th Devons) RA through Normandy and onto Hamburg in 1944-45.
Photo sourced from http://www.strijdbewijs.nl/tanks/sherman/m4eng2.htm
Thursday, 10 January 2013
More Woody objects
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Wednesday, 2 January 2013
New Year
The calender new year has arrived and yet more money went up in bangs, flames and smoke. Wonder if any of the people who went into debt to buy the fireworks gave any thought to the sweat shops in China where poor people are exploited just to make a few rich? Doubt it. Daft thing is the new year started on the 22 Dec .......
Escaped to my home county for the Christmas break where Mrs M and I had a really good non-Christmas and listened to our collection of 'Harry's Game' audio cd's. Twas a bit wet and we did need to divert around floods but the sea was fantastically wild on the 25th. Gave Mrs M a pebble sculpture that I had turned out of three different woods. (See photo)
So Argyle are in trouble again and now need a new manager. Feel sorry for Fletcher but his way of playing was not getting the results the Club needs to get it's rebuilding going. Who'd be a football manager!!!!!!!!!!
Escaped to my home county for the Christmas break where Mrs M and I had a really good non-Christmas and listened to our collection of 'Harry's Game' audio cd's. Twas a bit wet and we did need to divert around floods but the sea was fantastically wild on the 25th. Gave Mrs M a pebble sculpture that I had turned out of three different woods. (See photo)
So Argyle are in trouble again and now need a new manager. Feel sorry for Fletcher but his way of playing was not getting the results the Club needs to get it's rebuilding going. Who'd be a football manager!!!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Not long to go and its all over
Today its the 4 December, only 17 days to the true new year and only 22 days and the biggest con since the South Sea Bubble will be over. Millions of children across the non-Christian world would have worked under near slave conditions to produce cheap rubbish for 'not-well-off' Europeans and North Americans to spend money they have probably borrowed from loan sharks or at best near legal loan sharks like Wonga and which they will spend months paying off, so keeping them in the poverty trap.
Right, I feel much better now having got that out of my system.
Watched a fascinating programme the other day on the way JC has been portrayed in painting and sculpture over the last two centuries. He has been through more transformations than Dr Who, from a typical Greek fair haired boy, (short hair cut) to a European Jew with long dark hair and a beard. Pity the fakers who produced the so-called Turin Shroud didn't do their research beforehand. Can someone explain what God was up to for the 6billion plus years that our world had been spinning around Sol, and the first MEN who could read and write came along, some half a million years plus that homo-sapian had first stood up and not straight away fallen over.
On religion, I did feel sad for those men and women who seem to think its alright to be led by men in frocks rather than women in frocks. If I was a women, and an Anglican Christian, I'd tell the 'men-in-frocks-lovers' where to go ......... but then the actual 'boss' of the Church of England is a women !!!!!!!!!!!
Good job November is over, it was a lousy time for Argyle. At least December started with both the English men and women duffing up the All-Blacks. Sorry any colonial readers but when it comes to rugby, like you , I'm biased.
Well that's all for now folks .....................
Right, I feel much better now having got that out of my system.
Watched a fascinating programme the other day on the way JC has been portrayed in painting and sculpture over the last two centuries. He has been through more transformations than Dr Who, from a typical Greek fair haired boy, (short hair cut) to a European Jew with long dark hair and a beard. Pity the fakers who produced the so-called Turin Shroud didn't do their research beforehand. Can someone explain what God was up to for the 6billion plus years that our world had been spinning around Sol, and the first MEN who could read and write came along, some half a million years plus that homo-sapian had first stood up and not straight away fallen over.
On religion, I did feel sad for those men and women who seem to think its alright to be led by men in frocks rather than women in frocks. If I was a women, and an Anglican Christian, I'd tell the 'men-in-frocks-lovers' where to go ......... but then the actual 'boss' of the Church of England is a women !!!!!!!!!!!
Good job November is over, it was a lousy time for Argyle. At least December started with both the English men and women duffing up the All-Blacks. Sorry any colonial readers but when it comes to rugby, like you , I'm biased.
Well that's all for now folks .....................
Thursday, 1 November 2012
Autumn arrives
So the clocks have gone back and Autumn has arrived with a vengeance. Argyle, having started to do well have suffered two defeats, admittedly both away games. After the hectic summer we had its nice to settle back into a normal period of life. The wood turning is going well, but I must concentrate on my 'chisel action'. Problem when I watch my teacher working she makes it look to easy. Talking about woodturning, I had a look to see if I could get some recycled plastic planks to work with. Yes its out there but large orders only. Is it any wonder its hard to use recycled material when you can only buy in large amounts.
had a great visit to Coldharbour Mill near Tiverton the other weekend. It was one of the rare days when they 'steamed' their steam engines. Well worth a visit.
had a great visit to Coldharbour Mill near Tiverton the other weekend. It was one of the rare days when they 'steamed' their steam engines. Well worth a visit.
Friday, 28 September 2012
Post Olympic and Paralympics Depression!!!
Well, its all over. What many people call the greatest show on Earth has come to an end once again until it reappears in Rio in 2016. For the Olympics Mrs M and I were merely spectators, usually at home, sometimes in our caravan and best of all on Kingston-on-Thames bridge to watch the Cycle Road Time Trials and for 3 magical hours in the Velodrome, even if we did only see Ed Clancy win bronze. (tears).
Whilst we were up in London we travelled during the Games to just outside the complex to collect our Games Makers uniforms. Good job Mrs M is good with a sewing needle, she had to take 5ins off the bottom of my trousers. Otherwise the uniform was quite good. Just had a look on EBay. It's amazing what people are willing to bid for a games maker Watch. My hasn't been off my wrist since our first day on duty, other than when I shower!, although it is meant to be shower proof.
Mrs M and I were part of the 'meeters and greaters' team at Eton Manor, the wheel chair tennis venue. The six days we spent there were (showing my age) absolutely FAB. Tiring, hot, aching feet, but ggggrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaattttttttttttttttttttttttt. We wouldn't have missed it for the world.
Yes there were hitches both within the Park and on the buses and Underground getting there. I think I should contact Boris to discuss how he should be getting TFL to improve the trains and stations fro wheelchair users.
But all things consdered, it is clear that the Para' games has come a long way. Pity the folk in the good old US of A weren't able to have the same TV coverage that Channel 4 put out. Considering you had so little to base your coverage on WELL DONE CHANNEL 4. It was good to see Russian paralympians doing so well, especially as according to the old Soviet Union, there were no disabled people in the Union when the Games should have been held there in 1980 - it was held in Holland instead.
A further interesting point is that Papa G' thought that amputees and the blind and such like had no place in the Games. Can't work that one out myself, so even the great can and do get it wrong sometimes. I always wondering what Joseph Kennedy (JF' s father) thought in may 1945 when Britain ended up on the winning side. In 1940, when he was US Ambassador to the UK, he told Roosevelt that the UK was about to go under. Perhaps it was the Irish blood in him.
Well, its all over. What many people call the greatest show on Earth has come to an end once again until it reappears in Rio in 2016. For the Olympics Mrs M and I were merely spectators, usually at home, sometimes in our caravan and best of all on Kingston-on-Thames bridge to watch the Cycle Road Time Trials and for 3 magical hours in the Velodrome, even if we did only see Ed Clancy win bronze. (tears).
Whilst we were up in London we travelled during the Games to just outside the complex to collect our Games Makers uniforms. Good job Mrs M is good with a sewing needle, she had to take 5ins off the bottom of my trousers. Otherwise the uniform was quite good. Just had a look on EBay. It's amazing what people are willing to bid for a games maker Watch. My hasn't been off my wrist since our first day on duty, other than when I shower!, although it is meant to be shower proof.
Mrs M and I were part of the 'meeters and greaters' team at Eton Manor, the wheel chair tennis venue. The six days we spent there were (showing my age) absolutely FAB. Tiring, hot, aching feet, but ggggrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaattttttttttttttttttttttttt. We wouldn't have missed it for the world.
Yes there were hitches both within the Park and on the buses and Underground getting there. I think I should contact Boris to discuss how he should be getting TFL to improve the trains and stations fro wheelchair users.
But all things consdered, it is clear that the Para' games has come a long way. Pity the folk in the good old US of A weren't able to have the same TV coverage that Channel 4 put out. Considering you had so little to base your coverage on WELL DONE CHANNEL 4. It was good to see Russian paralympians doing so well, especially as according to the old Soviet Union, there were no disabled people in the Union when the Games should have been held there in 1980 - it was held in Holland instead.
A further interesting point is that Papa G' thought that amputees and the blind and such like had no place in the Games. Can't work that one out myself, so even the great can and do get it wrong sometimes. I always wondering what Joseph Kennedy (JF' s father) thought in may 1945 when Britain ended up on the winning side. In 1940, when he was US Ambassador to the UK, he told Roosevelt that the UK was about to go under. Perhaps it was the Irish blood in him.
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