A new wind turbine for the village

This seems to be an excellent idea; a reasonably unobtrusive wind turbine sited so as to annoy the fewest people possible but ready to offset the energy use of a whole community.  The Gamlingay Community Turbine seems ideal, and perhaps it's the way all discrete communities in the UK should go.

Hurrah!

3shoes

Conservatories

I have a problem with my conservatory.  It is a lovely (from a distance) aluminium and block structure which is incomplete, and has been so since the start of installation 6 months ago.

I shall not name the company, yet ...

The Eltisley Dining Pub

I live quite close to this village (about 5 miles away) but I have never been to this pub.  I went with some colleagues yesterday for a quick lunch and it was most enjoyable.  They have good real ale (I had Young's Bitter) and really tasty dishes.  I had a Ploughmans with rye bread and it was tasty and fresh.  The salad bits with it were crisp and moist.  My colleagues also enjoyed their meals.

I shall take my wife there for her birthday ...

3shoes

Barford Skips

Well, you'd think that providing skips was pretty simple, but Barford Skips managed to pork it up last Friday.  We had booked a 4yd skip with drop-down door (so that we could push a wheelbarrow in for the majority of the loading), but on the morning that it was due to arrive, I got a call telling me that we couldn't have one.  So the chap suggests Paul Riches Skips and I accepted that suggestion.

Sure enough, PR Skips delivers pretty promptly, but they cost £50 more.  That pains me: we booked a skip for a particular day, but in the event Barford's failure costs us money.

I told Mr Man at Barford Skips that I could not recommend his company; "Fair enough," he said ...

3shoes

Brand and Ross ; entertainment?

I read Terence Blacker's comment in the Independent today, "When did bullying become acceptable?" I wondered what this sort of programme was doing on a BBC station. Does this sort of descent into the gutter signal the end of the BBC as a reliable, trusted broadcaster? Leaving aside what Brand was thinking when he apparently decided to contact Mr Sachs's mobile during the programme, how did the producer think it would add to the entertainment to allow him to make such a call? And then, make more of them

I have never watched more than a minute or 2 of Ross's programmes, probably because I don't stay up that late unless there is something worth watching. But from what I have heard of the content, it's less entertaining than aiming to shock every now and again ...

3shoes

It's "procrastinate"!

Look chaps!  It's probably "procrastinate" you mean to write, not "prevaricate".  It's normally my colleagues who use the work incorrectly, but today I read its incorrect use in the Telegraph, p16 ("Vatican hardliners push for beatification of Pope Pius").  Nick Squires (or Dina Kraft) wrote, "Vatican hardliners said Pope Benedict XVI was prevaricating on starting the formal process of sainthood ...".  Now you just know that that was wrong.

You normally mean that someone is delaying doing something, that they really should get down to work and make something happen.  You don't mean that they are speaking or acting in an evasive way, perhaps even lying ... do you?

So please use the right word, "procrastinate"; if you don't, we will lose the very useful meaning of "prevaricate".

3shoes

EDF Again!

So, finally, EDF sent a chap to adjust the the meter clock. He arrived unannounced (but that's not a problem) and then knocked on the door to tell us that he had checked the meter and it was fine.

So I had to point out that the meter clock was 3 1/2 hours slow ...

Why don't they check the bloomin' clock automatically? It would cost so much extra to use electricity if the meter clock says it's daytime and it's not!

3shoes