A Washed-Out Wednesday!

 

Hello everyone,

Welcome to a very wet Wednesday.  It`s been pouring down most of the day with no sign of it stopping in the near future.  It`s also very warm, Jim said it registered 12 degrees celsius on the gauge in the car.  I`ve been sitting here in a sleeveless t-shirt because I was just to warm with my jumper on!

This afternoon I went with Kerry to the baby clinic.  Roman hadn`t put on very much weight but that is because he put on so much before he was weaned.  He`s evened out now and they are very pleased with him.  The health visitor has recommended that he is seen by a specialist Excema nurse at our local hospital.  Kerry is very pleased that at last someone will try to help Roman without just prescribing new creams and medicines each time he sees a doctor.  The health visitor said he is very lucky that he has a type of excema that doesn`t irritate or itch.  He is never bothered by it and it probably looks far worse than it is.  Tomorrow Kerry has an appointment with the doctor to get some more moisturising cream so I expect he`ll refer him then.

This morning before I took Jake out I couldn`t decide whether to take an umbrella with me.  I thought I`d better and as it turned out I did the right thing, we were about halfway through our walk when the heavens opened and even with the brolly I still got pretty wet.  Poor Jake was saturated and couldn`t wait to get back indoors.  That was the only time I`ve had any heating on all day, just the one hour at lunchtime till we warmed up, the problem being that hot radiators and wet dog don`t mix well and there was a distinct doggy smell for several hours!

Tomorrow if the first of Jim`s two days rest from work, well he won`t be resting as he`ll be hanging another couple of doors.  We will be going to the garden centre for lunch though and later we`ll buy another couple of doors to hang.  He has another four to hang and seven altogether to bevarnished, plus all the woodwork.  I`m sure once we get started with the varnishing it won`t take us too long. I don`t fancy the smell though, I`d better put a peg on my nose....lol!

Last night I hung Dan`s curtains for him and they`ve made all the difference to the room.  He has a bay window that looks out over an area with other blocks of flats. At least now nobody can see inside his flat and with the old net curtains I gave him he has all the privacy he needs.  I`ll buy some better nets for him tomorrow, the old ones are a bad fit and I want the window to look nice for him.  Jim also fixed a new lock to the door of his storeroom.  Danny`s really made a good job of cleaning the place, the kitchen is spotless now, as is the bathroom.  The main room looks really nice too with the exception of the old carpet that the owner put down.  Personally I thrown better carpets away! I`m quite proud of the fact that my boy has very high standards, at least I taught him something when he was growing up.

I must go and read some journals now.  I hope you all have a lovely evening, take care and Bye Bye for now. :o)

 

 

Measurement Facts

A bathometer is an instrument for indicating the depth of the sea beneath a moving vessel.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.

A typical lightning bolt is two to four inches wide and two miles long.

A wind with a speed of 74 miles or more is designated a hurricane.

Any month that starts on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th in it.

At 4,145 miles, the Nile River is the longest in the world.

Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalentto a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5!

Easter is the first Sunday after the first Full Moon after March 21.

England and the American colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar on September 14th, 1752. 11 days disappeared.

Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.

If the sun stopped shining suddenly, it would take eight minutes for people on earth to be aware of the fact.

If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.

Light travels at the rate of 186,200 miles a second.

More than 99.9% of all the animal species that have ever lived on earth were extinct before the coming of man.

Nearly 50% of all bank robberies take place on Friday.

Ten inches of snow equals one inch of rain in water content.

The anemometer is an instrument which measures the force, velocity, or pressure of the wind.

The base of the Great Pyramid of Egypt is large enough to cover 10 football fields.

The greatest snowfall ever in a single storm was 189 inches at the Mount Shasta Ski Bowl in February, 1959.

The Gregorian calendar was introduced by Pope Gregory in 1582 AD, and was adopted by Great Britain and the English colonies in 1752.

The highest point of the earth, with an elevation of 29,141 feet, is the top of Mt. Everest in Tibet.

The highest temperature ever recorded in the continental US was 134 degrees on July 10, 1913 in Death Valley, California.

The highest temperature ever recorded in the world was 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit at El Azizia, Lybia, on September 13, 1922.

The highest waterfall in the world, Angel Falls in Venezuela, has a total drop of 3,121 feet.

The linen bandages that were used to wrap Egyptian mummies averaged 1,000 yards in length.

The lowest temperature ever recorded in the world was 129 degrees below 0 at Vostok, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983.

The metal instrument used in shoe stores to measure feet is called the Brannock device.

The monastic hours are matins, lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers and compline.

The most snow accumulation in a one-day period was 75.8 inches at Silver Lake, Colorado, in April 1921.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced in 1978 that it would alternate men's and women's names in the naming of hurricanes. It was seen as an attempt at fair play. Hurricanes had been named for women for years, until NOAA succumbed to pressure from women's groups who were demanding that Atlantic storms be given unisex names.

The world's first speed limit regulation was in England in 1903. It was 20 mph.

The wristwatch was invented in 1904 by Louis Cartier.

There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.

Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tectonic destruction from an earthquake (2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.)