My list of hobbies

Paula. I hate to tell you, and I will break it gently, you did invent the concept of waffle board.

Ummm. As walnut implies, I think you got the facts on global warming (or in your case cooling) somewhat wrong. You must stop reading the same comics as G.W.B. :D :D

 

John,

My hopes of a grip on reality have been dashed again double darn it all i can say is i truly live up to my Paula'ism "I finally got it together...but forgot where i put it"! :D

I have yet to graduate from the girls comic 'Twinkle', remember that one? According to DRH at Scripps Institute of Oceanography, the common beleif that global warming exists is not strictly true.


Now i have one problem with that, not strictly - which is a cop out for another way of saying maybe so Walnut is probably correct although it has to be said the 'global warming concept as understood by some' is relative to the size of the populus of a given area, take Navacerrada, Spain - it's mean temperature had increased by 9c in 1941 but has decreased by 2c in 2004, but having said that Tokyo, Japan was 13.3c average in 1876 and had spiked to 17.5 av by 2004.

We have to bear in mind that these figures were produced by NASA, now i'm not really trusting of them as my Tempur mattress is nowhere near as ****** comfortable as they reckon it was on the space shuttle :D

 

Hi, guys, what a weird conversation, to say the least, but what does one expect here?

Don't knock NASA ... I worked with/for them in the late 60s/early 70s and I'll always support the work they have done.

Personally, I've no time for these expensive mattresses ... it seems like those who have them have more problems than those who don't.

Each to their own ...

 

Lady my dear dear friend,

I will never forgive the shop that sold us the darn thing, its like sleeping on a brick. We bought it out of sheer desperation because of hubbys back pain, tell you wot tho they dont half hold the heat in the summer phew

Took the picture i told you i would, just have to load it up

 

Our mattresses here have a summer and winter side and you flip them over ... must be honest, not 100% sure how this works, but they aren't expensive.

Tread on his back, Funny Face, and get your young man back in shape or take up massage as a sideline ... why is he out of shape for heaven's sake??????? You don't have to answer that (well, you can privately :D )

 

LoL, giggle :D

His knee is shot and his back is not coming back to say the least! Semi-pro football and being a Plumber, on his knees all day (usually begging me for food :D ), i will pm you about the contortions he gets himself into

 

:D :D :D Get an older man woman with less problems. Have you no sense?

PS Waiting impatiently for that pic. xx

 

Back to the ice age that we are now in we have periods of warmer and cooler spells within ice ages more temperate and more severe periods occur. The colder periods are called glacial periods, the warmer periods interglacials, such as the Eemian interglacial era.
Glacials are characterized by cooler and drier climates over most of the Earth and large land and sea ice masses extending outward from the poles. Mountain glaciers in otherwise unglaciated areas extend to lower elevations due to a lower snow line. Sea levels drop due to the removal of large volumes of water above sea level in the icecaps. There is evidence that ocean circulation patterns are disrupted by glaciations. Since the Earth has significant continental glaciation in the Arctic and Antarctic, we are currently in a glacial minimum of a glaciation. Such a period between glacial maxima is known as an interglacial.
The Earth is now in an interglacial period known as the Holocene. It was conventional wisdom that "the typical interglacial period lasts about 12,000 years" but now appears to be incorrect from the evidence of ice core records. Therefore, it has been widely contradicted recently; for example, an article in Nature[4] argues that the current interglacial might be most analogous to a previous interglacial that lasted 28,000 years.
Predicted changes in orbital forcing suggest that the next glacial period would not begin before about 50,000 years from now, regardless of man-made global warming [5] (see Milankovitch cycles). However anthropogenic forcing from increased greenhouse gases should outweigh orbital forcing for as long as intensive use of fossil fuels continues (global warming)maybe we can't stop this cycle but we can do our best to slow it down otherwise our childrens children wil have to be good swimmers.
Back to mattresses don't stay on them long enough to appreciate there comfort or discomfort.

 

Walnut :eek: You do all have some very interesting hobbies,see above :D

 

Ah. Hi, guys. Just found this thread again.
I must stop looking at the screen through the bottom of a beer glass :D

 

My list is pretty boring I'm afraid!

Theatre
Ballet
Gardening
Classical music
Socialising
Pilates
Reading

One of the best books I've ever read is called: "A Fine Balance" by Rohinton Mistry and I'm currently reading "The Mosquito Coast" by Paul Theroux excellent so far.

We've just bought a new mattress and we tried out a Tempur one, wasn't impressed at all, the salesman did say they contained the heat, hope it wasn't too expensive...

 

Stingo,

Nuffin boring about ballet, i used to study ballet when i was a wee girl, classical music i love too, i once sat thru all of Wagners Ring's and without a cushion :D

I read like a whirlwind and dis Aerobics 4 times a week before the collarbone incident.

I read The Mosquito Coast, good book, enjoy

 

I find nothing boring with these hobbies either.

I wanted to be a stage dancer at one point, like Pan's People. I was offered a job in the States but my boss (a prominent criminal law attorney) threatened to fire me if I took the job ... the job was offered to me by one of his Maffia clients ... I was told I would have "protection". I thought it a good deal at $100 a night in 1970 but I didn't take the offer up. Silly me ... could be a millionairess now.

Oh, such is life ... :D

 

let's see the good point...you are alive