Clock shift

So here in the UK the clock has shifted and we are now on British Summer Time BST ! The hour we lost I think will be worth it of the next few weeks.

Drink of the day

The drink of today is.... London Pride which as you know is a real ale and very nice it is to drink in the sunshine.

Chromecast

I have chromecast at last after managing to get it from the post office. I have to say that it's packed nice and that I got it out of the packaging and working in less than five minutes!

The first thing it did once it was all setup and taking to the internet was to update itself which it did all on its own, I hope that this is something that will continue to happen.

The apps that do exist work well, the only problem at this time is the lack of apps. Hopefully this will be something that will change in the next few months.

Is it worth 30 quid?

Yes I think so, being able to convert an ordinary TV to a smart TV for so little money makes sense to me.

Rock choir

I am not a member of this choir but the wife is and yesterday the choir where asked to perform at Wembley stadium during the pre start and the half time slots.

I think they did very well and the 83000 odd people in the stadium also seemed to enjoy it.

Wembley

So for the first time ever I have been to and been in Wembley stadium. Wow it's a big old building and I am told that it holds 90000 people well when I was there it had over 83000 it did not look full full if that makes sense.

The atmosphere while watching something live is great. I went there to watch a rugby Mach even though I don't follow rugby and I must say that I enjoyed the experience.

The only thing that pissed me off and I do use the words pissed of what the number times I had to get up and down out my chair to let people backwards and forwards. I reckon I had the only row of seats where every one of them either went for food drink or the toilet and I think some of them had all three more than once!

But part from the chair yo yo it was an experience.

Rugby

So yesterday I saw my first live in person rugby match between the Harlequins and the Scracenes which was a good match as far as I understood it all as I don't follow rugby.

So why was I there that I will tell you in another post.

Any way the first try of that match was rather good and the 83000 other people in the stadium though so to.

Speed of growth

Just how fast do Hawthorn leafs grow in the spring?

I mean earlier in the week I saw them just break out into little green shoots and today when I looked they were much much bigger, where does all that energy come from to do all that growing?

The sun is not that bright and as the leafs are still growing I don't suppose that they can be doing a lot of photosynthesis.

So this is one of those things that I don't know the answer to and so far my researches on Google and the like have not answered this question either.

Twitter

Note to myself that yesterday I tweeted my 1000th tweet since joining twitter back in May 2009.

What's a bit strange I have a no idea what my first tweet was.

Millions

I wonder if I should start a millionaire list so that when I win my millions I will already have a list of things that I would like to spend my money and enjoy them.

Well other people have a bucket list why can't I have a millionaires list?

So the question is what should I start with first?

Car?

House?

Holiday ?

There are lots of things....

So I shall have a think and come back to the list when I have something.

Chrome cast

Chromocast was released in the UK yesterday, so I have decided to take the plunge and have actually brought one, it will be interesting to see if it works with the TV in the bedroom, I know that the wifi signal upstairs is good so it will be interesting what use I will be able to make of it.

I am told that you can download apps which will help you use it. All I do know is that it's an android computer and that is tiny.

It's supposed to turn up on Friday so I will report back when I have had chance to have a play with it.

Is it?

Is today the first day of spring eg is today the equinox?

I don't know and as I am just too lazy at this moment to check I don't have an answer. But as the clock move here in the UK soon it can not be very far away can't it?

Moss

Just noticed that the differant mosses that I pass are changeling colour at differant rates even if they are side by side. I suppose it's because they are differant species and so responde to the increased light level and warmth in differant ways.

Grass

Just a note to me that I just noticed that the grass has turned that light green Colour in the last few days, I suppose it has nothing to do with all the sunshine we has been getting in the last few days.

Twitter

It may be of interest to me as in this notebook but I joined twitter not long after if first started, but have not been vey busy on it so much so that I am in the next few days finally going to make my 1000 th tweet, I am not even sure how long axactly it's taken me to get to this number of tweets.

Which makes me look a bit slow in the tweet world but I decided to let others have all the fun.

Purple Tights

Just seen a women with purple tights on, this is most unusual as I did not think they made such a colour and what does it go with?

I was so shocked at the colour that I was looking at that I forgot to notice what else she was wearing!

Spring

Just a note to me about something that I saw today as I was driving into work.

One of the other trees that seems to get its leafs out rather quick and has a much lighter green colour than Hawthorn is Horse Chestnut, why this is I just don't know, only that every where that I have driven in the last few days the trees that I see that are starting to break into leaf are either Hawthorn or Horse Chestnut.

Weather

So we had several days of blue skies and it being warm and dry, so it should not really be a surprise that we have had some rain today.

Hawthorn

Just a note to me that the Hawthorn trees or bushes which ever they are are now starting to break into leaf. I love the green that these new leafs.

Reading

When not watching rugby today, did I mention that I have watched 3 matches back to back?

I have been reading on the iPad kindle app some of the short stories by Frendrick Brown, these are science fiction and some of the story's are short what is now called flash fiction as they are sometimes only 500 words long and they are well worth reading as some how he manages to tell a story and have a twist in it all in 500 words, how he did it I don't have a clue, all I can say is look him up and read a few it's well worth the effort of finding them.

Weather

Just want to record here that today the weather was mostly sunny and that's nice, but the fact is I spent most of it watching rugby, 3 matches one after another!

And what's more scary I don't follow rugby!

But it's been a good day.