ErUpNorth

I have looked at my blog again and realise that I have been absent for far too long, more than a year for a proper blog so heres a brief run down of my year. We had new windows and doors put in during March, the house is a lot warmer but because of that the heating doesn’t come on as much and I feel the drafts that are still lurking from somewhere.   I suppose some  of it comes down from the chimney and others through the airbrick British Gas forced me to put in the dining room when we had a back boiler. Well the year in terms of weather has been a bit grotty, that wet that I’ve not had any real inclination to do any gardening.   It’s been kept tidy and I do have a man that comes to mow once a fortnight during the growing season, well worth the £30 a month to come home and look out onto a pristine lawn.   The other thing that held me back from doing any gardening was my frozen shoulder.   It’s improving slowly but initially it was well painful, my chir...

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.            (Hardly seems worth it.) If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it !) The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.        (O.M.G.!) A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.            (In my next life, I want to be a pig..)     A cockroach will live nine days without its head   before it starves to death.    (Creepy.) <>   (I'm still not over the pig.) Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour (Don't try this at home, maybe at work) The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to it...

Yes again its ages since I've blogged but I have been busy with another OU module which is now finished with the final assignment submitted.  John has gone off to Teesside University to study art.  Work has been extremely busy with the start of a new term, can't believe it'll be Christmas soon. A bit more up to date we've just had a good weekend.  On Saturday we went to the Spooky Spectacular fireworks display at Newcastle Racecourse.   http://www.metroradio.co.uk/spooky-spectacular-2011-event-information/ . The highlight of the weekend for Alan was his Rally Experience at Chris Birkbeck Rally school  http://www.gorallyschool.co.uk/ .  We had a lovely lunch and the weather stayed fine and sunny, I even braved a demonstration drive as well. I'll try and come back again soon, bye for now.

This little lot never made it onto our dinner plates as we have been picking at them every time we go into the kitchen. I do like growing my own veg but yields can be a little on the low side as I don't really give them my full attention. Maybe when I retire I'll manage to invest more time and effort into it. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

I was tidying up folders on my pc today and came across this piece dated February 2002.  It is very funny and having had my first mammogram a few months ago I can see similarities but on a whole I am wondering if technology has moved on a little bit.   Many women are afraid of their first mammogram, and even if they have had them before, there is fear. But there is no need to worry.  By taking a few minutes each day for a week preceding the exam and doing the following practice exercises, you will be totally prepared for the test, and best of all, you can do these simple practice exercises right in your home. EXERCISE 1: Open your refrigerator door, and insert one breast between the door and the main box.  Have one of your strongest friends slam the door shut as hard as possible and lean on the door for good measure.  Hold that position for five seconds.  Repeat in case the first time wasn't effective. EXERCISE 2: Visit your garage at 3 a.m. when the tem...

So I just wrote a nice little blog about how I am procrastinating and then managed to lose it.  Sometimes I'm not very bright!

I went down the potting shed on Sunday in search of something to store my seed potatoes in.  I'd bought three lots on the Saturday, first earlies, second earlies and main crop.  Now I don't know where to store the second earlies and main crop, they need to be kept in a cool light place.  The first earlies are currently in egg boxes in the kitchen where I am hoping they will chit nicely.  The other two sets are sitting in the dining room but they can't stay there permanently.  I will continue to ponder this problem as last year I kept them in the dark in the potting shed, but that produced long white roots which is not good. My sortie down the garden tempted me to do a bit of weeding around the potting shed and in last year's cabbage/broccoli patch.  I started to turn over the new vegetable patch but that required a bit more back breaking work, although it is turning over nicely.  I'm not impatient about creating new borders, I cover an area of lawn ...