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In Flanders fields

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Sort of jumped the queue this little rant.

For the last ~30,000 years the UK have been slowly emerging from an Ice Age.

The ice has receded and land has emerged. Over a period of some 5,000 years forests grew up and eventually animals move into the area.

These trees were of two types, evergreens in the north and deciduous in the south. In the far south the trees are able to hold onto their leaves late into the year and quite often they fall only just before winter sets in.

And so it continued, even with the new fangled modern Homo Sapiens moving into the islands.

“Man” then set about clearing the islands of unwanted items, like bears, wolves, wild pigs and trees. The last was simply taking up too much room!

They did a good job and by ~300 years ago the southern forests had all but gone.

“Man” moved on and managed an astonishing pace of development in Industry, and of course more land was deforested.

They eventually get to the point of inventing the Train. But even from day one the pesky tree were against them. When they weren’t unreasonably picketing the routes of the trains they maliciously shed leaves. The fact that they managed to set several thousand years of precedence is just a pathetic attempt to create a legal loop hole.

All train companies in the south of England electing not to organise proper plans for the violent actions of trees. They have successfully proved that a condition in place prior to the invention of a service doe not have to be concurred or planned for within that service.

So when next delayed remember: Southern Railway aren’t at fault. It is merely the violently militant action of Trees! The trees are entirely to blame and It is with them that all commuters in the South of England should raise their complaints and aim their ire.

But Southern Railway have a plan! They intend to scare everyone off the East Coastway service and then concentrate solely on the Brighton line.

Guess I’ll use another railway service. No, wait, I can’t because Southern Railway have a monopoly.

Happy Happy, Joy Joy.

(Can u have my money back now please? Or should I chop down some trees to aid the “cause”, pulp them and print my own?)

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At work we get a £5 subsidised lunch. It’s a generous policy, though those of us who have been there years complain at how the “value” of the £5 has diminished.
The range is good; cooked foods and salads, pies and curries, crisps and fizzy drinks, fruit and juices.

I’m a pie man myself with crisps and Rocky Road. If I can also a sugary drink for later. Sometimes that drink is left for on the way home if I’m too busy to remember to drink it.

Appletiser products are available in this neighbourhood. These are popular and it isn’t surprising; delicious and so so much sugar.

Grapetiser is an astonishing product, for example. Refreshing and fruity and slightly carbonated it ticks the “snack drink” boxes. But the real kick comes from the amount of sugar. Some how they have managed to get a whopping 50g dissolved into that there fruit juice. Ok, that’s a bit unfair as it is all, apparently, provided by the fruit itself. No wonder grapes are popular for fermentation.

Sugar sugar sugar sugar rush rush rush rush.

Last night, on my way home, I made the mistake of placing my laptop bag less gently than normal in the car.

Big mistake.

The iPhone mains adaptor managed to puncture the can! What are the chances? I mean, come on!

So I drive home and slowly the can is bubbling away.

Now my laptop bag is a rather nice Oakley bag and I utterly fill it with adaptors, USB keys all sorts of micro tech. Even an old digital camera. Not to mention my work laptop.

Argh!

So I get home. Actually I didn’t notice the leak at first, only after a couple of hours when I went to get the can. And the can has a huge hole punched in it by the Earth pin.
So the next hour was spent cleaning cables, carpets, tech and of course the bag.
But here it does show that buying decent stuff does pay off because only that segment of the bag was affected by the spill, though as stated it leaked through te bottom onto the carpet.

So the work laptop is completely unaffected. That is most definitely the big “phew!” moment.

Alas the can spill has I think finally killed the BH22 mini camera. It’s old and cheep and difficult to use and eats batteries but I have owned it so long and I honestly will miss it. Comfort Tech.

With my good lady’s help I have cleaned everything else but it’ll be a while before the bag is dry. Owe her a big “thank you”.

I’m just happy that the title here isn’t Grapetiser killed my Laptop coz I just don’t want that conversation with my boss.

As an aside, if you go to the Appletiser website you won’t find Grapetiser listed. Perhaps afraid of that 50g of sugar.

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Well, I haven’t a lot to say on this.
I’m posting a YouTube video about the issues of poor driving.

When I was 15 a cousin who I was close to died in a traffic accident that was entirely avoidable. She was ok and walking around, seemed fine, but had suffered an undiagnosed brain injury and died very quickly whilst waiting to be picked up by her dad.

She was just 15 too.

Watch it through though it is disturbing.

Please be safe.

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