Yes, Friends, you too can fight climate change - and have tasty meals at the same time, courtesy of your local Chinese takeaway, which is a 'delicious' thought haha!!!!
The story was literally 'all over' page 94 of the Onion News this morning - I expect you noticed!!!!!
And reading Chen's report this morning, here in semi-conductive Liphook, Hampshire, brings a warm feeling to the hearts of me and my wife Lois, as we reluctantly fish our winter coats and scarves out of the back of our wardrobe, and brave the unseasonably chilly air, for our semi-planned walk over nearby Old Man Lowsley's Farm - brrrrrrrrrrr !!!!
If YOU are a climate-change-denier, then I invite you to come to Old Man Lowsley's place (at your own expense, naturally!!!) and see the visible evidence in the dried-out ponds and unseasonably early blooms - an odd combination!!!!
And once again, also, we're delighted by the lovely birdsong and the 'wheeeee's' of the occasional aircraft flying thousands of feet above our heads, to put it mildly!
Plane-spotting - yes, it's mine and Lois's latest obsession, thanks to the shiny-new "flightradar24 app" on our phones!!!!! And semi-leafy Liphook, Hampshire seems to be the perfect spot to "indulge ourselves", being apparently near most flightpaths out of London's Heathrow and Gatwick Airports, not to mention also, a mere 20 miles from here, Britain's premier airport for private business flights - Farnborough, Hampshire, also known as FAB, would you believe!!!!!
And when we're not thinking about planes today, Lois and I are remembering my late brother Steve, whose 74th birthday it would have been today, and celebrating his great sense of humour, which still inspires us!
Steve inspired Lois and me no just with his irrepressible sense of humour but also with his many other qualities, and with his fantastic guitar-playing, together with, in the 1960's, his espousal of all the protest singers, introducing Lois and me to the music of, especially, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie.
And Talulah recalls one of her early dates with South African-born Elon, going out to the cinema with him, at a time when he was still an unknown in Britain.
And if you know what cinemas are like in Britain, you'll guess the consternation that this caused, to put it mildly !!!!
Fascinating stuff, isn't it!!!
my wife Lois and me this morning as we take our near-daily walk, which today
takes us over nearby Old Man Lowsley's Farm, now a nature reserve, to the
accompaniment of local birdsong and the wheeeeeeee (!!!!) of a British Airways
flight to faraway Antigua, for one plane-load of sun-seeking tourists - lucky them!!!!
What a great place to live !!!!!
Even in the afternoons, when you'll normally find us in bed for 'statutory nap-time' (but don't come looking (!!!)), it's hard for us to resist the temptation to stop whatever we're doing and check the exotic destinations of the overhead flights, high above our heads.
Lois wants me to make it a regular feature in my blog from now on, so watch this space!
[Don't bother! - Ed]
us this afternoon, during 'statutory nap-time' today, when we're delighted
to hear a private business flight from Geneva a mere 3000 feet above our heads,
and just 3 minutes away from landing at nearby Farnborough Airport !!!!
memories of my late brother Steve: (above) pictures from our family holiday
on the Isle of Wight in 1956, (left) braving the medieval stocks at Brading -
Steve's in the middle, between me and our sister Kathy: don't worry, we were
later released thanks to a last minute plea from our lawyer haha (!!!!)
fast forward to 1975: our first baby, Alison's first Christmas:
the three of us seen here with my brother Steve and my sister Jill
more memories of Steve, in later years: (left) in France with work colleague Anne-Marie
and her mother, and (right) in New York with our sister Kathy, by then a US resident
Singers Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, two of Steve's biggest heroes
And Steve changed both Lois and me, inspiring us, especially, with his unfailing, and purely instinctive, support of the underdog in most given situation.
We see the other side of Elon Musk tonight, the years when his two apparently 'doomed' projects like his Tesla electric cars and his SpaceX rockets, both seemed to be going nowhere (literally!!!!).
It's hard to believe it, but even the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, was once very much an underdog, as Lois and I learn tonight in the second part of the fascinating BBC2 series "The Elon Musk Show".
Elon's wife for many years, English actress Talulah Riley, ex-Cheltenham Ladies College student and star of St Trinian's 2, all about the naughty schoolgirls of posh boarding school St Trinian's, remembers her first impressions of Elon, and she recalls the early days of their courtship, when he was still an unknown in Britain at the time.
Elon's long-term wife, English actress Talulah Riley (centre)
seen here in the 2009 film St Trinian's 2, all about the
naughty schoolgirls of posh boarding school St Trinians
Elon has, Talulah says, "a kind of innocence to him. What I mean by that is that [Elon] feels with incredible purity whatever emotion he is feeling at the time. He feels things very very deeply."
She says, "Everyone else in the cinema was looking at us, like, 'What the hell is going on over there?'. And I was saying to him, like, 'No, come on, get up off the floor!', but he was enraptured by what was going on on the screen, and he was feeling it! He feels things!"
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!
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