Fantastic Meteor shower display

Went out with Oscar at 6am this morning. Perfect clear sky, and saw 10 meteors in 15mins. FANTASTIC. (hope the triffids aren't on the way?).

Should be even better tonight if it stays clear.

News on the stars in lincolnshire.

Are electric cars cheaper? (to run)

Yes - I'd like an electric car and save hundreds on diesel. What is the Government going to do when they have no revenue from Oil? Yes - you've guessed it - charge per mile for using the roads! Mark my words.

If you only commute a few miles, (less then 20 each way) would be nice if your employer provided charging points. Sounds like a good (environmentally friendly) way to go. By the way, is an electric car environmentally friendly, I mean if it was made of wood perhaps. What about all the nasties in the plastic, and batteries?

Where does the electricity come from, if you've got solar panels - fine - oh, but you're at work all day, its dark at night when you're home, DOH!

Sorry  - this doesn't add up.

RIP - Sir Patrick Moore

Sorry to hear Sir Patrick Moore has really gone to the Heavens. I'm sure he'll be up there forever now looking down on us. He's someone who has always been there. RIP

Autumn Budget

Great that Osborne is to raise personal allowances but.

What about married couples?

£9244 allowance great but what about couples? My wife doesn't work but why can't I have her unused allowance? Nearly £20k before we pay tax great. Yes she could work but if she doesn't gives a job to someone else. Why can't we benefit? Surely one worker per household is better than none. The saving is in benefits.

It does seem bad that Tax allowances are lost lie this. It can't cost much in the big scheme of things but also what about families, the person staying at home to look after children. Much better than farming them out.

50 years of the Audio Cassette

Yes it is 50 years since the first audio cassette appeared.

Do you remember them? What did you do with yours?

Buying music on cassettes - never was as good as records then CD's killed them both.

Recording from the radio/copying your mates Cassettes/LP's - yes that was great.

You didn't really mind the wow, hiss and flutter. After all the players were that tinny anyway.

I got a Chrome/Metal tape deck for my Hi-Fi, just meant I could hear the wow, hiss and flutter better.

Then do you remember un-jamming the cassette recorder.
Using a pencil or biro to rewind the tape? Hopefully it still played. I even resorted to cutting out the ruined bit and slicing them up with a razor blade and sellotape - it worked after a fashion.

C90's were best - C120's seemed to be the worst offenders at jamming - I suppose they were thinner.

Then there were the games - loading you Jet Set Willy game on the Spectrum  20mins of screeching and the  "load error"!! Arrrrggh! Start again. 

Ah those were the days (I don't think so).

Higher Energy bills but we save?

So now the Government are trying to convince us that by puttin £100 a year on our bills will save us money?

Are they MAD, who are they fooling?

Energy bills will not go down whatever.

What they should do is whatever they can to help people use LESS, power and energy.

It can be done, we have much more efficient appliances. If we switched to LED bulbs we'd save a lot. Some people don't actually know that if they shut the windows and doors it saves energy. If they are cold they turn the heating up. YES they are crazy, ignorant but crazy.

If we all had solar panels on our houses at least during the day consumption would plummet, then why not a win turbine on every house?

Companies should be made to cut energy by tax incentives.

It can all be done.

We really don't want the lights to start going out in a couple of year, or do we?

Frosty tonight

Will we see some snow tonight?

First of the winter.

Have got the Christmas decorations up - looks very festive.