Bees and butterflies in the garden
Today has been a lovely day – not too hot at 22°C and the insects have been enjoying the sun as much as we have.
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Back in 2001 the US National Transportation Safety Board published a report on the survival rates in air crashes (PDF, 800 KB). They are much better than you might think: Nearly 96 percent of the occupants involved in a Part 121 aviation accident over the past 18 years survived the accident, and in over . . . → Read More: Maximizing the chance of surviving a plane crash  Hotel Catalonia Excelsior, Barcelonina, 5 (to the right in the picture) We flew down to Valencia on Sunday afternoon for a couple of days to meet Antonio, our architect. The design of the house is nearly finished to the stage where we can apply for planning permission, so we went to discuss some final details and to meet some of the potential suppliers. Quite a lot, in fact. We were in meetings from 9:30 until 15:00 hrs. A good job that the Spanish eat lunch late, so we were able to get a good meal after we finished. We also met María Pedro for the first time, the landscape architect who Antonio put us in contact with some time ago. Up until now, our contact with her has only been via e-mail. She is a friend of his daughter and has just set up in business after studying in Spain and doing “industrial periods” in Scotland and Canada. We are very happy with the progress to date, and are hoping that Antonio will be able to submit the plans for approval before Spain shuts down for the summer holidays over the month of August. There is a useful tool to check which amazon store has the cheapest price for books, including international postage. (Unfortunately it won’t check egg poacher prices). Check out CheapRiver.com. They do a browser plug-in which will allow you to check worldwide and find the cheapest location to order from. The differences are sometimes . . . → Read More: Useful tool to check amazon book prices We have an egg poacher, which is a good few years old. Probably a number of decades old, in fact: Our trusty egg poacher You add water below the four “cups”, grease each cup with a little olive oil before adding an egg and let it boil with the lid on until the . . . → Read More: Microwaved poached eggs cook the yolk too fast There have been a number of reports in the last days of iTunes app developers apparently accessing other iTunes users’ accounts to buy their applications, to increase their rating on iTunes. People have had bills of $100 or more generated for apps and books that they didn’t order. It is not clear at . . . → Read More: Online security Film from traffic cameras in Moscow. It looks like obeying traffic lights, giving way, and driving in the correct lane are considered optional by a number of drivers in Moscow. (Best to mute the sound, which has been added . . . → Read More: Moscow traffic incidents |
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