Sunday, 1 May 2016

yellow or white to keep bedbugs at bay.

these  apple pip sized bloodsuckers come out at night to feed as attracted by body  heat and carbon dioxide.research advises using white or yellow sheets as bedbugs dislike being attracted to these colours as prefer red as it helps camouflage  their scarlet colouring and can also hide in black.

stand up is good for mental health?

academics are hosting stand up by comedians at Nottingham university in may.they believe that laughing assists people with stress and helps others to understand issues.

hugs stress dogs ?

in an article a canine expert Dr Stanley coren is clamming that dogs get stressed due to being immobilised during a hug when instinct is to (runaway)Dr coren analyzed 250 pictures of dogs hugged by adults and kids and he says that 81 per cent showed signs of discomfort or anxiety .myself i disagree strongly as all dogs i have had to my present two -robbie  the peke and mitzi the jack Russel  enjoy being hugged .

invasion of the mini yellow lines holsworthy,devon

25 April at 18:20
Has holsworthy been invaded by yellow mini lines as all around the square


Michael Curtis No loading or unloading at the times shown
Martin Heslip
Martin Heslip Will that cause problems with the shops in the square......?????
Philip Neve
Philip Neve No Martin, the shops are allowed to park there.
Tod Oliver Davies
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Ghostman Raines

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Martin Heslip
Martin Heslip Ha ha you makes me laugh Phil.....what about loading & unloading for the shops.....
Philip Neve
Philip Neve 'Loading only' designated areas are provided you silly billy. Lol
Martin Heslip
Martin Heslip Must go and have a closer look then....!!!!!!!
Philip Neve
Philip Neve I think your inspection should begin in the White Hart. I'm sure there is information to be gleaned in there.
Martin Heslip
Martin Heslip That sounds a brilliant plan.....
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Michael Curtis
Michael Curtis Think perhaps Holsworthy Town Square Going for the Guiness book of Records for road traffic parking signs! Even the tree had one last week until it was kindly removed 😜
James M Rowland
James M Rowland 27 traffic signs in The Square yesterday !
Michael Curtis
Michael Curtis Surely a record then !
Philip Neve
Philip Neve Shit !!! Don't encourage them to put more signs up.
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Martin Heslip
Martin Heslip Is there that many vehicles able to park in the Square......
Mark Mark
Mark Mark It the Council gremlins way of not having a clue
Philip Neve
Philip Neve I think the maximum is eleventeen.
Gary Stephens
Gary Stephens I'm a Holsworthy born and bred boy and I'd love to ram each one of those parking signs up each of the retarded councillors backsides who thought it would be a brilliant idea to scare shoppers out of the square with the thought of a possible parking tic...See more
Nigel Johnson
Nigel Johnson No mini yellow lines are a cut back! They are saving money by using less paint! lol
Karen Osborne
Karen Osborne Looks like they don't want any people parking in the square. Which is so unfair to the shop owners who are struggling to keep there business .going .Looks like TDC or HTC are trying to get the Square pedestrians only. Launceston done this & there Square was deserted the other day when i was over there.
Lucie Cullen
Lucie Cullen Looking at the lines and signs I reached the conclusion that it would increase the revenue to the traffic enforcement department, whilst stopping people from the advantage of free parking to use the local shops. In an already struggling economy not the brightest of moves...
Josephine Foster No disabled parking on those special yellow lines and only 1 designated bay - with a 2 hour allowance! It doesn't encourage local shopping... PS what are the car Park charges now? Where Disabled have to pay too!

hi -de -hi and my little part in its history.

my part is very small and does not involve any acting but helping to put the small train that is in the credits in series at milky way in Devon with fellow volunteers and  local rail volunteers back in late 1980s-
Hi-de-Hi! was a BBC television sitcom shown on BBC1 from 1980 to 1988.
The location is Maplins, a fictional holiday camp, during 1959 through to the early 1960s. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who also wrote Dad's Army and It Ain't Half Hot Mum amongst others. The title was the greeting the campers heard and in early episodes was written Hi de Hi. The series revolved around the lives of the camp's management and entertainers, most of them struggling actors or has-beens.wiki link

Saturday, 30 April 2016

cb radio slang so no talking to Gay Charlee"

who else remembers the days of cb radio and the fun we had -B slang is the distinctive anti-language, argot or cant which developed amongst users of Citizens Band radio (CB), especially truck drivers in the USA during the 1970s early-1980s.[1]
The slang itself is not only cyclical, but also geographical. Through time, certain terms are added or dropped as attitudes toward it change. For example, in the early days of the CB radio, the term "Good Buddy" was widely used. However, at some point, it became associated only with a subset of male prostitutes (lot lizards) who would advertise via the CB radio (usually at truck stops) and using the term became an insult to other drivers, or radio operators.[2]
Nicknames given or adopted by CB radio users are known as 'Handles'.[2][3] Although this practice is all but dead, many truck drivers will call each other 'Hand',[4] or by the name of the company they are driving for.[citation needed]
CB and its distinctive language started in the USA but was then exported to other countries including Mexico, Germany and Canada. In the French-speaking region of Canada, the cultural chauvinism associated with the French language generated conflict and adaptation of the new loan words.[5]

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Popular terms

Law enforcement officers and their equipment

"Checkpoint Charlie"
a police checkpoint placed to look for drunk drivers, etc. (alludes to the former border crossing between East and West Berlin)
"Evel Knievel"
a police officer on a motorcycle (refers to the popular motorcycle stuntman)
"Gum ball machine" / "bubble gum machine"
a state police patrol car or other police cruiser (refers to the older-style, dome-shaped red rotating/strobe light commonly mounted on the roof of state police cars, which resembles a traditional "penny" gumball machine)
"Miss Piggy"
a female law enforcement officer (refers to the muppet character, derived from the pejorative term "pig" for police officers)
"Mama Bear"
a less derogatory term for a female law enforcement officer.
"Bear in the Air"
A police aircraft in flight.
"Smokey" or "Bear"
a police officer (refers to Smokey Bear, known for wearing a campaign hat very similar to that included in many highway patrol uniforms in the United States)
"Bear Trap"
a police checkpoint, similar to the "Checkpoint Charlie", but concealed.wiki link

Sunday, 24 April 2016

Last PG Tips chimp Choppers dies aged 48 after developing heart and liver failure

Choppers the chimpanzee
The last surviving chimpanzee from the famous PG Tips adverts has died aged 48.
Choppers, the final original 'tea chimp', was put to sleep at Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire on Wednesday, the tourist attraction said.
She had been displaying signs of heart and liver failure.
The 'much-loved' chimpanzee's death came two years after she lost her partner, and fellow PG Tips star, Louis.
Popular with zoo visitors, Choppers was known for her starring role as Ada in the tea adverts, which ran from the 1960s through until 1980.read more

Gym

 At its core, strength training is a delightfully simple, if slightly masochistic, pursuit: **dragging a lump of iron from A to B and hoping...