Mr Mist’s Blog

It’s drawing towards the end of August now, which means that, in a little under a week’s time, it will be September [en.wikipedia.org] and, consequently, my birthday. Woohoo! I shall be officially old. How shocking?

This year seems to have gone past fairly quickly, I think. Soon the summer will stop completely and we will move off into dark days with showers and that nasty wind stuff that I don’t like too much. We will have had our cats for ages and they will be all used to living here totally unlike the scardy things that we took in a while back.

This year I want to try to take more photos [mist.dpchallenge.com] and maybe get out to places a bit more (though that pesky weather that I mentioned might have an impact on that). We shall see.

So, some stories.

I was quite pleased to read that tea is healthier than drinking water [news.bbc.co.uk]. As a drinking of a reasonable quantity of tea, it’s good to know that tea is both healthy and hydrating. I shall henceforth resolve to drink at least as much tea as I do already. And maybe do more exercise.

In cow news, farmers say that cows moo with an accent [news.bbc.co.uk] Something that they pick up from their farmer overlords, the cows moo with a twing appropriate to the area in which they live. Isn’t that funky?

In recycling, the government wants us to pay for what we throw out as trash [news.bbc.co.uk] using some kind of electronic bin that records what gets thrown into it. A few problems here. Firstly that, for a lot of people, the bins are in an open area, and anyone can throw stuff into them. Second is that, here, our recycling serice is rubbish (excuse the pun). We get one blue bin, that we can only put paper in, that is collected on a seemingly random basis. There’s no provision at all for bottles, or any other kind of recyclable material, and the service itself is dire, and yet, somehow, this is meant to encourage us to recycle, and we shall be penalised for throwing stuff away!

Lastly for this entry the demotion of Pluto from real planet to the ridiculous dwarf planet status seems to have stirred up a bit of a fuss [news.bbc.co.uk]. Not everyone agrees with this decision, it would seem. Personally I’d like to keep Pluto the planet. We have had nine planets for this long, how can it suddenly stop being a planet? It’s not shrunk.