Cold

A bit of a surprise at just how cold it is today, not sure what I expecting it to be to be honest, perhaps I am thinking that spring can't be far away or that I want spring to start early!

Weatherspoons

Went to a weatherspoons pub yesterday and had a great meal of surf and turf.

I could not enjoy the real ales they sell as I was driving but in the past when I am not the duty driver I have enjoy some very good pints of real ale such as abbot ale.

Microwave

So for the very forts time I just seen a microwave with a steam cleaning button!

I know?

What the hell is it for?

Turns out that to use it you have to put a cup of water in the microwave, it then heats it up for ten minutes after which you then have to wipe down the inside of the oven.

I am sure that you can get just the same effect by putting a cup of water in the oven and just setting the timer for ten minutes.

So I think that having a button like this on a microwave oven is just a bit of a gimick.

Podcasts

I still have too many shows and not enough time in which to listen to them

I wonder if there is a word for such a situation , if not I am sure that there should be.

Cooking

Just tried one of the recipes from the new Jammie Oliver's book that came out at Christmas.

I have to say it was very nice and that it turned out very well, even if I have to say so myself.

It did take more than the thirty minutes that Jamie reckons it should take.

Snow

Snow why?

I have had enough of all this snow stuff I want spring to start and to start soon.

Music

Why is music such a great thing to listen to?

Why does it make you feel better most of the time?

Why does it allow you to escape to somewhere else?

I don't know the answers to these questions, but I bet there are people out there who do know.

Thing is I yet to find them or any evidence of their work.

Book writing

For some reason or other I started to write a new and if I must say so myself better book on trains and the landscape.

Now several years ago I started writing a book called Tain and terrain it got to edition three and then for various reasons it did not progress any further.

Well for various reasons I have looked at it again and decided that a total rewrite was needed.

So last night I darted all over again and I think that this time I have got a much better book and a much better layout for the book.

This time I still have the book starting in Woking train station and we take a trip on the train from Woking all the way to it's terminus at Weymouth pier.

All the way I talk about each train station and a bit about it's history, I then in the next chapter talk about the town that the train station is in, again talking about the places history and any other notable information that I could find out about it and that I also think is interesting.

So far in writing the book I have got every train station covers and also every town that the train stops in.

The book at this time runs to over 400 pages but I am sure that as I edit the book the page count will go down as I have at this time included a lot of information that I am behind to think is not needed.

I have also included lots of pictures to illustrate the train stations and also some of the notable features in the towns that the train stations are in.

I am not sure yet how long it is going to take to complete the book but it has to be in weeks and not days.

I will report back here as to how progress goes.

Podcasts

I wonder if there is a name for the event when you have too many podcasts to listen to and not enough time?

Days

So the days of jan are to me rushing by, not to sure why it feels like the days are passing quickly, but to me they are

I have wondered if it has any thing to do with the time of year or how light or dark it is.

Expectations

Why do we have them ?

what purpose do they serve?

Do they have a good outcome ever?

Lies

I have yet again been lied to it hurts

Things

So how many things have you near to as you read this

Tied

For some reason I feel very tied and it's only 18:11 now I have had abusy day but so that I feel how tied as I do now

Strange may be it the fact that it has been a really dark day who knows what the cause is

All I know is that I am very tied when I should not be so

Cold

Wow went outside just now 20.19 it was a bit of a shock at how cold it was

Darkness

So I know I keep on going on about it but I am glad that finally I can see that the days are now just starting to get a bit longer.

Seeing as I have lived so far through a lot of winters and springs I have noted that as I have got older the more notice I now seem to take on just how dark it get and at what time,not to sure why that is but that's what I have noticed

I know that if I look up sunrise and sunset times I can find out very quickly when daylight will exceed nighttime.

I can also see the sunrise time creep back earlier and earlier, but there is sometime about actually experiencing it that makes all the difference

Book reading

I have just finished reading the third book by Leo McKinstry that I have read in a row.

The other books by him that I have read were Spitfire and Lancaster the book that I just finished reading is called Hurricane.

All 3 books follow the same pattern and I suppose that if it works and it's not broken why change it, I must say that for these three books that it works very well

I am not sure if I could read many more books laid out in the same way but for these three it's okay

So back to the book that have just read it's okay it does go into the history of the plane and where it came from and why.

It also does explain just who the aircraft designer is and why the planes he designed are the way they were.

The is also information on the fight to get the plane built in the numbers that the RAF needed back in 1940 and how without the number of planes built that the outcome of the Battle of Britten may have had a very different outcome.

All in all a book that does tell you the story of the plane and what use it was put to during the war. you are even told just how many of each mark of plane was made and what the reasons where for the different marks and why there were less marks of the Hurricane compared to say the Spitfire.

So if you get the chance to read this book do so, personally I would I think read all three books in the order that I did, that is read the Lancaster book first then the Spitfire then finally the hurricane book, it will change your view on the war and how each of these planes had there own part to play in helping Great Britian win the war.

Sunset

I did wonder just how many sunsets a year are you know nice good looking something to take your breath away.

Then another thought canes to me do the sunset else where in the world have the same sort of niceness factor, I mean does it change if say you are in a warm climate?

Does it change if you are nearer to the equator?

I don't know all I can say for certain is that now and then here in the UK we do get some sunsets that make you go wow

Sunrise

I see that sunrise today is before 8am nice

M25 part 2

Well I have made it a round the M25, where did I go wrong?

The last .5 of a mile and missed the turning on the last roundabout.

The good thing is that the GPS.