are near death experiences real?

as you may know near death experiences differ depending on your religion-christians -bright light ,hindus -float down  a river ,muslims see  a door .but some scientists based in belgium believe this experience is just our nervous system rection in your brain .my personal experience may not classify as a near death but whilst i was in a coma due to a blood sugar count of 124 i heard a woman's voice in the darkness telling me to wake up and this voice was not my  wife,s or anyone else i knew and suddenly i got a very very overwhelming feeling to wake up and up to my loyal reader what you believe .

Enid (given name)this is my wife's name

Enid (/ˈiːnɪd/ ee-nid; Welsh pronunciation: [ˈɛnɨ̞d]) is a feminine given name, the origin of which is Middle Welsh eneit, meaning "purity", literally "soul" (from Proto-Celtic *ana-ti̯o-, compare Gaulish anatia "souls (?)" attested on the Larzac tablet, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂enh₁- "to breathe, blow"; cf. the modern Welsh anadl, "breath" or "wind").^[1] Enid was a character in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Arthurian epic Idylls of the King (1859) and its medieval Welsh source, the Mabinogi tale of Geraint and Enid; according to The Facts on File Dictionary of First Names (1983),

"Enid drifted into use after publication of [Tennyson's] poem, and did not become firmly established until the 1890s. At its most popular in Britain in the 1920s, then began to fade slowly. Always rare elsewhere. Helena Swan once remarked that it was the greatest possible compliment for a woman to be called ‘a second Enid’, since the original was the perfect example of spotless purity."^{[2]wiki link}

cat fight in government.

no not the mps in the government but larry and palmanerson.larry is number 10 mouser and palmanerson is the foreign office cat .palamanerson a black and white cat had a 7 minute fight with larry to see who was top cat and palamanerson conceded defeat and ran away.

plan b

this is just in my own mind if anything i do in work or life falls through i now try to have a plan b -ie do a course ,join something ,if find something hard try a different way as dot wish to go backwards or guilt trip .

Do bees have regional accents? Cardiff University launches scheme to find out

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British summer garden is not complete without the gentle sound of bees, buzzing among the flowers.

But up and down the country the insects may be humming a different tune. Scientists at the University of Cardiff are keen to discover if beeshave accents, buzzing at a higher or lower pitch depending on their location.

The buzz associated with bees is produced by the fast vibration of wings, and is most commonly heard when the insects are in mid-flight. They tend to say silent while foraging in plants for pollen and nectar.

But bees also make a catalogue of other noises depending on what is happening in the hive. When under attack , or if interrupted during foraging, they buzz more aggressively. They also make a piping sound when they are getting ready to swarm.

Bees have also been known to rub their back legs together to call missing insects back to the hive, and scientists now think they emit a low hum during "waggle dancing" – a figure of eight movement made on the wall of the hive which shows other members of the colony where the best flowers are growing.

Now researchers are inviting beekeepers to place recorders on their hives to pick up the sounds of the bees so they can pick up regional variations.read more

just a pine needle for me thanks

duck billed dinosaurs survived on a diet of just pine needles found through a discovery of fossilised poo study at university of bristol.

Cyril.a newborn smooth snake a devon first.

Rare snakes that 'disappeared' for seven years have returned with a baby in tow. Conservation volunteers have been searching for signs of the smooth snakes - the UK's rarest reptiles - since ten were released in 2009 and a further seven in 2010 at a secret location on a Devon RSPBnature reserve.They have recorded some sightings but none that proved that the snakes were breeding - until now.

Delighted volunteers have found, recorded and photographed a newborn smooth snake and named him Cyril. He was spotted with two adult snakes and is officially the first smooth snake to be born at the re-introduction site in Devon.

Nick Moulton, of the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust, one of the partners in the re-introduction project, said: "It really is a difficult species to work with so for the volunteers to stick with it and find that proof of breeding is brilliant. It is now re-established in Devon, this really is a big find."

The re-introduction was a partnership between the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust, Clinton Devon Estates, and the RSPB, supported by English Nature.Populations of the re-introduced snakes are largely restricted to a few heaths in Dorset, Hampshire and Surrey.Smooth snakes are extraordinarily difficult to find – it can take ten years of work simply to prove the species is present or absent from a particular place.

They are non-venomous and can grow to around 50-60cm in length and 90-150g in weigh with an average lifespan of up to 30 years

Snakes recorded at the re-introduction site have been given names beginning with C: Cedric was recorded in 2010 and 2011, Celia in 2011.But volunteers could not be sure that the pair were born in Devon as some of the re-introduced females may have been pregnant at the time of re-introduction.

They have been watching for the snakes since the first were re-introduced, visiting the site at least once a fortnight, from March to October.

An RSPB spokesman said "Now we have got evidence proving breeding and there is a chance there may be others, so we are over the moon.