Blue electron haze

There are certainly things going on that are weirder than anything I could imagine. I’m reading Build Your Own Time Machine by Brian Clegg and I now know that the ghostly blue glow that comes from some nuclear reactors is emitted by electrons which are travelling faster than the speed of light in the liquid around the fuel elements.
    It’s a useless bit of information as far as what I do is concerned, but fascinating none the less.

Do Not Open!

Private Pike-Williamson has the perfect defence to whatever the PM thinks she has on him – the national interest and exposing government dodginess. No wonder the PM is so eager to draw a line under everything and move on.

It’s also human to mock the self-afflicted

Oh, dear. People who took six or seven hours to complete the London Marathon course were upset by being laughed at by the gangs of council workers, who were clearing up the debris of a major street event. Whatever happened to grin and bear it in these Snoflake days?

That’s bound to happen

We’re all expected to stop producing greenhouse gases by 2050 – presumably, that includes breathing out carbon dioxide? And we’re not allowed to have cars, gas central heating, meat to eat and a whole bunch of other stuff? And the rest of the world is supposed to fall over in amazement and follow suit? The taxpayer is having to pay wages to some seriously weird and useless people.

It’s great being fireproof

When you’re on the skids, nothing you do matters and no one has any expectations of you any more. Which lets the prime minister sack her Defence Secretary arbitrarily; probably as revenge for the young lad being cheeky to her in the past, and no one gives a monkey’s. Except Labour politicians who are trying to confect outrage, of course.

Deflated easily

Excited noises from the Indian army about finding Yeti tracks in snow, each footprint a monster 32" by 15", have become somewhat muffled after experts pointed out that their beast would have to be as big as a good-size dinosaur, and there’s nothing like that living in the Himalayas.

A little noise

After making yesterday’s observation, some things crashed through the letterbox. Among them was a polling card for the Euro elections on May 23rd. Looks like Mrs. Brexit means Brexit is going ahead with wasting £100 million of taxpayers’ cash.