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Good Morning All.
A dry start then rain forecast.
I have Shiv and family here this afternoon to clean,it is free electric from 2 to 3,which means use as much as possible.
Apart from that it is a doing nothing day.
Have a good day all.
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Morning all – sunshine this morning but, surprise surprise, more rain forecast for later
Found myself looking out the window this morning wishing I could see the beast in next doors garden but I know she will be well looked after in the cattery
Not much planned for today, Sunday being a day of rest, although I do have some paperwork to get through that has been calling me name for a couple of weeks
Take care – have a great day
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Pouring down here. Need to get rid of stuff if the tip is open. had a clear out yesterday.
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Good Afternoon Everyone…
Sunny and warm (25 degrees C) now after the 13 degrees C when I set off for my walk…
Since I abandoned the fahrenheit scale back in the sixties together with liberty bodices and short trousers, I have to convert everything to Celsius to get some idea of what hot is… 
There can’t be anything simpler than 0 degrees C for freezing water and 100 degrees C for boiling water…Simples! I mean…32 degrees F for freezing and 212 degrees F for boiling… What’s that all about then?
Peace and tranquility returned to Fox household after Mrs Fox left to ‘man’ (woman doesn’t sound quite right) her brick a brack stall down at the Art Festival, so I’m on cat feeding duty and get yer own lunch duty today…I’ve also being left in charge of the oven for tonight’s dinner…
D’you want a cat Sheila…I’ve got one here who is only good when she’s asleep…A bit like Mrs Fox…
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Went to the tip, had to throw a lot of stuff in un-recyclables as the places we wanted were totally full, sad that.
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Thank you for the kind offer Foxy but I would not dream of depriving you of all those wonderful things to come, claws in knees, being woken in the early hours because she wants food, scratched furniture, smelly litter trays and of course contented purrs and cuddles! (I’m talking about Rosie not Mrs. Fox!)
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I can see that you are well experienced in kitten ownership Sheila…The flock wallpaper is taking a beating…And mad half hours always precede a long sleep…And Rosie has her moments too…
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No Bruce, but it goes to landfill instead of getting recycled…
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Ah! The NSW government put a tax on landfill to encourage recycling. I think the minimum charge here to dump landfill at Wollongong tip is $17, they weigh you in and out and charge by weight.
Recyclables are free.
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That might be something our local council will start doing soon Bruce. I know they have to pay a penalty for every ton of landfill…It’s only a matter of time before they pass on that cost to the public.
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When I lived in London you took your rubbish to the Thames and dumped it in a barge. The barge was then towed into the North Sea where it was emptied.
I presume that is no longer the case.
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I wonder if any of the rubbish is still at the bottom of the North Sea or has it all degraded. There wasn’t as much plastic in those days like drinks bottles and food packaging.
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No, we just throw it in the skip indicated by the workers.
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Couldn’t agree more Foxy, I’ve never understood Fahrenheit, never will. Just like the examples you mentioned, Celsius - we actually use the synonym “centigrade” - seems more logical too, and so much easier. 
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I have lived overseas for many years, and speak fluent “metric.” Even so, I think in degrees F, and convert Kg and lengths into pounds/ounces and feet/inches/miles, respectively, in my head. I also round off a lot. 100 kph becomes 60, not 62, and 1 pound is 450 grams, not 454. I still do not understand all of the various foot/shoes size measurements.
It is my theory that the USA did not go metric in the1960s, because of the way they tried it. Had they just put both measures on all signs and labels, then removed the US units say 10 or 20 years later, people would have understood and accepted it. Instead, they told people how to convert them, so we had to learn things like 2.2 pounds to a kilogram, 33.8 ounces to a liter, and 62 miles to a kilometer. None of the numbers are easy to work with, and the arithmetic-phobic American people as a whole said, “Metric is hard. I’m not doing it.”
The mixed units caused the Mars climate orbiter to be destroyed in the late 1990s because one piece of code or group of programmers was working with metric, and the other was working with US units. Maybe that story is apochryphal , but I read it at the time. It had something to do with where the programs were written. One group was in Europe, and the other in the US… and never the twain shall meet.
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Apart from temperature I more or less do the same as you Don. I spent most of my working life as a mechanical engineer and general machinist. Some drawings came in imperial and some in metric. Further more, some machines were calibrated in metric and some were calibrated in Imperial…So it became necessary to be able to convert quickly and accurately, so millimeters to inches and inches to millimeters became second nature. However, I still work in gallons and miles, but I was also a runner and some road races were 10K or 5K with no mention of miles…I also ran hills and mountains and I still can’t get my head around a 1000 metre high peak, that remains at around 3000 foot high give or take…and the marathon will always be 26.2 miles to me. So apart from temperature, we have a lot in common…
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I disagree with that.
Personally I think Australia did it the right way, Once they changed over Imperial measurements were never mentioned again, there was even a ban on importing rulers with inches on them. There were no conversion factors, it was just metric.
Things that the day before were 8ft by 4ft suddenly became 2420mm by 1220mm, speed limit and road signs changed overnight. Weather forecasts were immediately only in Celsius. Imperial measurements were never spoken of again people had to get used to it and they did.
Personally, at the time ,I very much resented the change but am so glad they did it that way, the half hearted way the UK did it was a total cockup. The country changed from coal gas to natural gas in a day what was so hard about going metric?
Metrication, decimalisation and the electoral system are three things Australia did really well. Not perfect but pretty damn close.
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We’re lucky, we’ve always had the metric system! Never any confusion.
They should have done that here Bruce, we’d all be over it now