BlogPostSatrday29Aug09
(15.00 pm If I don’t forget, I’ll include a photo that will show you how narrow the streets are – just wide enough for one car and one person! When cars meet, one often pulls up onto the narrow sidewalk or at least stops and lets the other car do that! I’d be willing to bet that tires wear out on the sides from scraping the curbs rather than on the tread which doesn’t get as much rough treatment!) The car on the left is parked on the sidewalk - look closely in the center for the car and one person.
9.00 am – Leaving soon for yoga class – but thought I’d begin with a note that might be of interest to some. Yesterday at SuperValu (I’m not misspelling it – that’s the name) I bought milk and cookies and since I’d forgotten to take my string bag with me I asked for a plastic bag from the stack. The cashier told me they cost 22 cents each – so I stuck my tubes of cookies into my pockets and carried the milk in my hand, Can you imagine how much plastic must be saved from landfills? Wonder what it would take for the US to begin charging for the grocery plastic bags! Other types of stores do not charge but almost all use paper bags.
An interesting news event – nearly 40,000 well qualified students are likely to be turned away from British universities – no places for them. The government is being blamed for ignoring the crisis – they are advising the students to work for a year and reapply next year – but then where are the jobs? Guidance people are strongly advising that students have at least a second choice in case the first one refuses them.
Light bulbs are also in the news – 100 watt ones are no longer to be stocked after September 1. 150 watt ones are already banned. One local man recently bought a 15-year supply of 100-watt ones!
Those of you who know me well are probably surprised that I know any of the news! (I didn’t know about Hurricane Bill until Jim emailed me explaining why we had such high winds recently.) My incentive for TV listening (sometimes even watching) is to hear more speech – Irish speak much like British – in order to be able to understand people here better. I’m improving slowly, very slowly! Fortunately, there are several Irish movies here in the apartment and I’m thoroughly enjoying them as language teaching tools, also.
3:00 pm: Just got the nerve to tackle the climb up to Compass Hill with my camera and got two photos before the batteries died – and I had just taken them out of the charger! Discovered when I got back and plugged them back into the charger that I had forgotten to turn the wall switch on!!! Did I tell you every outlet has a switch, in addition to plug-in spots. So I’ll have to climb again – but not twice in one day!
(15.00 pm If I don’t forget, I’ll include a photo that will show you how narrow the streets are – just wide enough for one car and one person! When cars meet, one often pulls up onto the narrow sidewalk or at least stops and lets the other car do that! I’d be willing to bet that tires wear out on the sides from scraping the curbs rather than on the tread which doesn’t get as much rough treatment!) The car on the left is parked on the sidewalk - look closely in the center for the car and one person.
9.00 am – Leaving soon for yoga class – but thought I’d begin with a note that might be of interest to some. Yesterday at SuperValu (I’m not misspelling it – that’s the name) I bought milk and cookies and since I’d forgotten to take my string bag with me I asked for a plastic bag from the stack. The cashier told me they cost 22 cents each – so I stuck my tubes of cookies into my pockets and carried the milk in my hand, Can you imagine how much plastic must be saved from landfills? Wonder what it would take for the US to begin charging for the grocery plastic bags! Other types of stores do not charge but almost all use paper bags.
An interesting news event – nearly 40,000 well qualified students are likely to be turned away from British universities – no places for them. The government is being blamed for ignoring the crisis – they are advising the students to work for a year and reapply next year – but then where are the jobs? Guidance people are strongly advising that students have at least a second choice in case the first one refuses them.
Light bulbs are also in the news – 100 watt ones are no longer to be stocked after September 1. 150 watt ones are already banned. One local man recently bought a 15-year supply of 100-watt ones!
Those of you who know me well are probably surprised that I know any of the news! (I didn’t know about Hurricane Bill until Jim emailed me explaining why we had such high winds recently.) My incentive for TV listening (sometimes even watching) is to hear more speech – Irish speak much like British – in order to be able to understand people here better. I’m improving slowly, very slowly! Fortunately, there are several Irish movies here in the apartment and I’m thoroughly enjoying them as language teaching tools, also.
3:00 pm: Just got the nerve to tackle the climb up to Compass Hill with my camera and got two photos before the batteries died – and I had just taken them out of the charger! Discovered when I got back and plugged them back into the charger that I had forgotten to turn the wall switch on!!! Did I tell you every outlet has a switch, in addition to plug-in spots. So I’ll have to climb again – but not twice in one day!
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