snow over easter...

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Global warming fall-out now reached Easter Islands!

First we ran out of wood,

so we used stone,

now snow!

Virtuality will be the last resort

for our moai.

As seen in Bavaria*!

* true!

Carpe diem!

snow rumors on tyres

... or snow tyres' rumors?

BBC

Last weekend's best joke!

Some motorists who fit winter tyres to their car to cope with snow are being charged higher insurance premiums, it has been claimed.

AA Insurance Services says some people have been told to pay up to 20% more.

Winter tyres should be much safer in the snow, but some insurers have been counting them as a modification to the manufacturer's specifications.

I find it very funny (at times) to watch the UK's desperate need to be different than all the others, at least invent any possible wheel again but name it differently even for technologies and products that have been around for long and can hardly be improved by making them British!?

This is all far from being efficient and living an intelligent and sustainable life.

"The confusion may be through call centres, where that information is not getting through," says Malcolm Tarling, of the ABI.

Oh well, "... not getting through" what?

Carpe diem!

how heavy the snow is!

...give me a break! Heavy blanket?!

 

As heavy snow blankets the country, STV viewers can keep
abreast of the severe weather conditions via our website and news broadcasts.

Our part of the country is covered with 30 or 40 cm of snow; no time to measure its weight and call it "heavy"; in the end it is just a normal winter's dress one would expect to blanket our country like so many others. The difference is most of those other countries just know how to deal with ice and snow while we seem to believe in global warming being a one-way-road and snow ploughs being a tool of the past.

With the North Atlantic Drift slowing down Western Europe would be in for a more continental climate which will have more extremes on the menu for us - it is that simple, that global and that un-heavy!

Carpe diem!

perverse? no: healthy and safe!

Health and safety experts warn: don't clear icy pavements, you could get sued

Why does nobody clear the paths outside their homes? Yup, it's all down to health and safety

Making your way through uncleared snow, ice and slush is healthy and safe; for all ages and at any time! This makes clearing pavements, roads and parking places really an absurd and unhealthful conception! And there is more room for all the other Bull...t! Or would "perverse" be the better expression?

Carpe diem!

P.S. There are rumors that Health and Safety wants everybody to wear helmets; that's against birds, birds' sh.. and the occasional plane; it will make the timely shareholder rich and most of us looking like idiots on ice.

Update 12-01-10: Interesting!

Sunday Telegraph and Mail on Sunday accused of printing false comments from health and safety experts

Health and safety gone mad? Poor journalism run amok more like.

Journalism obviously goes mad; from birds to swines and from snow to health.

DIY plough...

There was no plough during the last 24 hours on our village's roads - so how far should diy go?

Carpe diem!

globally warmed snow, no doubt!

That was yesterday, today it is twice as much - 25" snow! Time for the big boys' toys like the plough in front of the Unimog!

I can hear them warming up, the sceptics!

The visitor stays the same.

Merry Christmas!

Carpe diem!