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Very sensible. I didn’t catch the football results so I’ll watch MOTD without knowing which makes it more entertaining.
Sleep well.
So sensible, that I think it is high time to put my electric blanket on.
I had an early hospital appointment this morning, and didn't sleep well last night.
Ah, an interesting evening ahead, then.
Enjoy.
Thank you.
My electric blanket has been put on.
Tonight, I shall forego even a sniff of either the grape or the grain.
Tonight, I shall forego even a sniff of either the grape or the grain.
You’ll need it on tonight. -2 forecast here. Brrrrr. 14.5 in the bedroom currently.
Well, it has now been switched on, (electric blankets are up there with the wheel, running hot water and flushing toilets as some of humanity's greatest inventions, to my mind), and I think I shall head up in an hour or so when the bed (and room) are both sufficiently toasty.
Brrrr.
Definitely, but that comes under my headings of running hot water.
However, nothing (well, not much) beats that wonderful feeling of a veritable cascade of piping hot water on your sorry bones and sad corpus early in the morning.
Yes, must agree.
Hm.
Perhaps.
Oh, yes, yes, yes.
And electric blankets......
plus proper (public) piped water systems.
Well yes I wouldn't want to be without those either. But I've had very little use for the last two in my life.
Two of the greatest inventions, that have save probably more lives than any others are Tea and Beer.
Tea, because you have to boil water and kill the bugs in it.
Beer, because the alcohol in the fermented beer kills the bugs in it.
Agreed.
Eye glasses, very much so, an absolutely vital and utterly necessary invention.
Printing press is another invention that changed the world.
That and our larger brains. Of course brains are shrinking now each generation. Well that’s what I assume from what I see!
Putting Christmas trees up around the house today, kitchen, hallway and kids bedrooms done, just the lounge to go. Don’t ask, my wife thinks we need them all over the place. Thankfully the weather is appalling today so the exterior lights can wait until next weekend. I seem to be getting home most days and she’s bought some kind of Christmas decoration.
I’m just looking forward to enjoying a few beers over the festive period. I haven’t had a drink since September.
I’m just looking forward to enjoying a few beers over the festive period. I haven’t had a drink since September.
Ha, yes perhaps we're regressing. (Less toolmaking now
)Xmas decorations - I'm holding out until at least Dec 1st...
No decorations in my house period. Makes things nice and tidy.Ha, yes perhaps we're regressing. (Less toolmaking now
Xmas decorations - I'm holding out until at least Dec 1st...
Flint knives, - which can be adapted to a great many uses, and not just as weapons - even more so than spears, or bows and arrows.
Sure, and I agree, but I'd suggest flint toolmaking (axes, blades, scrapers) spreads across lots of hominids, it is an invention I guess, but not a Sapiens one. However other human species don't ever seem to have invented mechanically projected 'sticks' (spears from launchers and arrows) in the way 'we' did. Hunting with a bow is hugely more efficient than using just using spears so I'd argue that it terms of inventions it was Homo Sapiens biggie and I think it enabled our big spread out of Africa and all that!
The horrors of a nine o'clock class, especially in the deepest, dreariest, darkest depths of winter.
Believe it or not - and I have just been discussing this with a former colleague - it is worse for teachers than for students, and - unless seriously caffeinated (if ever there was a time for a double espresso, or two, this is it; actually, those who dwell in the coffee threads will have a profound understanding of such experiences), being appropriately alive, alert and fully functional at nine o'clock in the morning represents a challenge.
Believe it or not - and I have just been discussing this with a former colleague - it is worse for teachers than for students, and - unless seriously caffeinated (if ever there was a time for a double espresso, or two, this is it; actually, those who dwell in the coffee threads will have a profound understanding of such experiences), being appropriately alive, alert and fully functional at nine o'clock in the morning represents a challenge.
Lol. Some of us are in the office before 8 am everyday.
But never until I’ve had my tea and porridge!
I was never a morning person, neither as student nor as university teacher.
However, I never minded doing the proverbial 'grave yard' shifts, - which were loathed by some academic colleagues - and, for a number of years, taught not just night classes, but Friday night classes to evening students.
This I can relate to.
However, it is coffee (real coffee), and freshly squeezed citrus juice, (any combination of oranges, lemons and grapefruit) for me.