Wednesday, September 24, 2003

Mornin'

Start UP

LOOK OUT OF WINDOW from bed at "the old" moon and the "morning star" (planet - but which? - JUPITER ?)
get up find new glasses
pee
take off glasses put them in a ritual place where I can find them by touch
wash face in cold water
clean teeth

Grope for glasses I'm so short sighted I can't see where I put them.


out in the cold kitchen . the window has been open top and bottom a few inches at the outside temperature is cool

Weather Underground: Coleshill, United Kingdom Forecast: "Updated: 4:00 AM BST on September 24, 2003
Observed at Coleshill, United Kingdom about 2 or 3 miles to NNE
Temperature 38 °F / 4 °C
Windchill 35 °F / 2 °C
Humidity 91%
Dew Point 36 °F / 2 °C
WindSouth at 4 mph / 6.4 km/h
Wind Gust -
Pressure 30.43 in / 1030 hPa
Conditions Clear
Visibility 12 miles / 19 kilometers
UV 0"

I grew up with a cold house, you just wore woollen clothes and coal fires were lit whenever needed.
Face washing was always in cold water . . bath once a week ? or was that boarding school - or a false memory from some book ?

made my beakfast splodge of "greek" yoghurt, porridge oats and a dash of milk.
Turned 300 watts of kitchen lights off
Sat down with my pint glass of Typhoo tea and enjoyed the view from the seventh.

Great new specs. - so good to be sharp eyed again - can see the faint starboard light of a turning airliner . . . green
mnemonic: port wine is red P O R T = L E F T both have four letters absolutely idiotic but easy to remember.


British Peerage Mnemonics: "Baby vipers eat many dormice."

What ? click and see !!!

naturelinks
"Bird Song Mnemonics & Phonetics - Technically, mnemonics are gimmicks we use to remember songs and calls, while phonetics are actually what the bird is saying

. For example, pewees say 'pewee' and Phoebes say 'phoebe' so those are phonetics.

Barred owls say 'who cooks for you', but not really. That's a mnemonic.

I think that we all use the two interchangeably. There are also comparative sounds, i.e., when we compare a song or call to something.

For example, a red-breasted nuthatch sounds like a tin horn or a common grackle sounds like a rusty pump handle. Of course, all of this takes a great deal of imagination and creativity, but that's the fun of it, right? " Bird Song Mnemonics - listed alphabetically by bird

well wandered off again

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Back to bed . . Solihull hospital today. I want an abscess cut.

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