Mr Mist’s Blog

A random story surfaced on BBC News today that Ebay is going to remove the ability for sellers to leave negative feedback about buyers. Yep. Buyers can still leave neg feedback about sellers, but not the other way around. Apparently the reasoning behing this move is that buyers do not leave neg feedback for fear of retaliation. Errr, ok, so fix the system so that you can’t leave realiatory feeback then, don’t break the system by removing one side’s ability to leave feedback at all. That’s just unfair and a nonsense. Poor show I think.

Breaking cow news! Flooding caused a herd of cows to have to swim for their lives in the Scottish Highlands. All 25 animals were rescued successfully

It was revealed today that Terry Pratchett is suffering from a rare form of early onsett Alzheimer"s. Typcially his announcement of this was given in his own amsuing style, treating it, like his books, as a work of comic genius.

In completely unrelated news, I just read that washing your turkey before cooking is actually more likely to result in you being food poisoned than if you do not wash it. This, apparently, because washing is unlikely to actually remove all the bacteria (only proper cooking does this) but will splash it around onto your worktops and utensils, where it will then sit around for ages.

Thirteen days to go!

Another week gone by. The house stuff seems to be not moving that quickly, but still managing to consume every hour of the day with stuff. Next week the surveryor comes to see this house. Hopefully nothing is falling off! It should be fine though I think. This week the cats all had to go to the vets. We made the mistake of bringing the boxes in on the day they had to go, so Charlie was off upstairs like a shot. We got Missy and Suzy last night and Charlie today. Laura got scratched.

In the news lots of silly people queued up to withdraw their savings from Northern Rock building society, proving that really, some news just shouldn’t be released to the masses, as hundreds took the sign that they were borrowing from the Bank of England to mean that the society was about to go belly up, despite every news article about it saying they weren’t.

Also the FIA took a massive hump at McLaren over some “secrets” to do with Ferrari. Obviously with Ferrari as the victim, the FIA went overboard and imposed a massive fine and constructor’s points hit. Somehow you get the impression it wouldn’t have been the same the other way around.

And finally, a hedgehog survived being washed at 40degrees in a pile of washing. I quite like hedgehogs.

This last weekend I spent laying a lawn. It is not a difficult task, but it is hard work digging over the whole garden and hefting turf around. You can see the results of my weekend of garden work in the gallery. I hope it actually grows so someone can appreciate it all.

Good news though, for Imperialists (and common sense), the EU has completely abandoned plans to turn the UK metric. This would have meant the change of all our road signs, and insane criminal charges for shopkeepers and stallholders who dared to take that horrific step of displaying weights in pounds and ounces.