Whitey Grandad

No, of course it doesn't prove otherwise, but everybody has an agenda.

That would be the Roman road then, the shortest route between two points, although there was a branch that ran off to the west through Chandlers Ford towards Bournemouth, Bakers Drove in Rownhams is part of it.

I don't get this bit: '...administration and a huge blow to the prestige of the Premier League' Who gives a toss? (apart from Saints fans and the blue lot, that is)

dluker@saintsfc.co.uk

Wasted food is a big issue. This was recoovered from dumpsters (skips to you and me): http://www.wastedfood.com/gallery/ The biggest culprits are the supermarkets with their strict sell-by dates and obsession with appearance of fresh produce. What are needed are more localised sales points, such as the old corner shop but unfortunately modern lifetsyle doesn't allow for it. Packaging forms a large part of the food production and sales market. Ironically, a lot of food is wasted because of poor packaging.

Chandlers Ford this morning (for Redondo Saint):

Do you mean to say that they can't arrange local-derby cup games at the start of the season?

Most people opt for cremation... (My deepest condolences to your friend)

I was walking around the harbour in Málaga once and I saw a shoal of fish alongside the quay. One of them was separated from the rest having swum into a clear plastic bag and it couldn't get out again. It was condemned to a slow death. Add that to the stuff that ends up in whales' and dolphins' stomachs and it's not a nice thought.

Don't make me laugh. It hurts when I cough.

They can still get employment. Just not with pompey.

I was on a day trip to Cairo last year and the piles of rubbish brought home to me the effects of modern packaging. Almost all of the rubbish was empty plastic drink bottles and plastic bags. 40 years ago this would all have been glass or paper.

But that doesn't mean much, we're only talking about 150 years or so. They were certainly not the hottest years ever, the earth has been warmer before and we could be entering a coooling period: http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2009/04/08/has-the-climate-recently-shifted/#more-371 When I was a kid the big worry was that the next ice age was overdue. Take a look at this graph for the last 420,000 years: http://hubpages.com/hub/Earths-Temperature-Brief-History-of-Recent-Change

It's colder now than it was in 2005 (or 1998 for that matter). The Met Office has different figures.

For one: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/upsDownsGlobalWarming.html It is almost impossible to get a true picture because the interpretation will depend on the religious fervour of the protagonist. The Met Office has been taken over: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1240082/It-gigantic-supercomputer-1-500-staff-170m-year-budget-So-does-Met-Office-wrong.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1235126/What-told-Global-Warming--missing-facts.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1091655/Climate-change-forecasters-know-global-warming-affect-world-physicist-claims.html

You must be paying extra for your petrol and how about all the levies on energy supplies? Then there is air passenger duty....

Exactly. Both statements come from the same sort of sources. It is all open to interpretation. Maybe the world has not got any warmer?

A change in the weather doen't mean a change in the climate. However, there has been no global warming for 11 years now. They can't even explain El Niño so how anyone can predict what's happening I'll never know.

Still less than an inch in Chandlers Ford and even that's melting. It seems that conditions are very localised.

Still only a dusting in Chandlers Ford, about an inch of wet snow. I'm at the dentist tomorrow morning for a bridge preparation but I'd rather be driving to the office.

My second-in command's brother has just bought Svensson's wife's Saab because they're moving back to Sweden so confirmation of what we thought.

No problem http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=HCDAJFU

Me too.

He Could Do A job For Us.

What is it with these people? A couple of inches of snow and they all decide that they'd better get out and walk. Modern cars all tend to be FWD so that makes it all easier. I remember driving round North London in the sixties in my dad's Ford Anglia 100E. Now that was a real challenge. Anything up to 6 or 8 inches of packed snow is no trouble on most of our roads. The odd hill can be a problem but as long as you get a run at it and ease off the power then it's a doddle. These kids today have never seen a real winter. Ice is different though, and that's what we're going to get on Friday and Saturday with daytime temperatures not getting above 0ºC.