Showing posts with label scotland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scotland. Show all posts
Saturday, 19 November 2011
Comics corner (Scotland) - where comic creators, writers, artists meet
Check out Comics Corner: http://comicscorner.ning.com/
Friday, 28 October 2011
Sport: Badminton
I recently started going to badminton sessions. Its a new sport to learn and its been quite fun.
To learn more about badminton http://www.badmintonscotland.org.uk/
To learn more about badminton http://www.badmintonscotland.org.uk/
Monday, 12 September 2011
Hurricane Katia heading towards the UK ?
Read the full story here: http://www.earth-issues.com/2011/09/hurricane-katia%E2%80%99s-bizarre-turn-sends-it-careening-towards-united-kingdom/
This image below from their site, clearly shows the hurricane heading straight for us. We have been aware of this from last week as we watch a website called windfinder.com.
It was due to hit today with winds of 70mph but the weather forecast now shows it for tomorrow and lower winds. Its always really windy here and winter has almost constant high winds - a lot of which are hurricane force but in the form of gusts not an actual hurricanes.
The after effects of a hurricane hit here in 2005 and caused a lot of damage, as well as a couple of people who died, when their car was washed off a causeway.
Source: http://www.earth-issues.com/2011/09/hurricane-katia%E2%80%99s-bizarre-turn-sends-it-careening-towards-united-kingdom/
Wonder if this will hit us / UK or wear itself out... The weather has been grim this weekend so far. Will be keeping a watch on this.
There were some funny light-hearted comments on a yahoo article that highlighted this Hurricane Katia: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/uk-braced-katias-dying-gasps-054404697.html
A couple of the comments were:
"Stop Moaning about the weather We've had a wonderful summer, I can distinctly remember those three sunny days in June, ................................ (Or was it July?)"
"Good excuse for a bad hair day :)"
"In America they call it a hurricane; over here in Britain we call it "a bit breezy."
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This is what windfinder.com is showing at the mo. which is nothing really.
Source: http://www.windfinder.com/forecasts/wind_british_isles_akt.htm
This image below from their site, clearly shows the hurricane heading straight for us. We have been aware of this from last week as we watch a website called windfinder.com.
It was due to hit today with winds of 70mph but the weather forecast now shows it for tomorrow and lower winds. Its always really windy here and winter has almost constant high winds - a lot of which are hurricane force but in the form of gusts not an actual hurricanes.
The after effects of a hurricane hit here in 2005 and caused a lot of damage, as well as a couple of people who died, when their car was washed off a causeway.
Source: http://www.earth-issues.com/2011/09/hurricane-katia%E2%80%99s-bizarre-turn-sends-it-careening-towards-united-kingdom/
Wonder if this will hit us / UK or wear itself out... The weather has been grim this weekend so far. Will be keeping a watch on this.
There were some funny light-hearted comments on a yahoo article that highlighted this Hurricane Katia: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/uk-braced-katias-dying-gasps-054404697.html
A couple of the comments were:
"Stop Moaning about the weather We've had a wonderful summer, I can distinctly remember those three sunny days in June, ................................ (Or was it July?)"
"Good excuse for a bad hair day :)"
"In America they call it a hurricane; over here in Britain we call it "a bit breezy."
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This is what windfinder.com is showing at the mo. which is nothing really.
Monday, 2 May 2011
Fundraising for my dancing trip
I am trying to raise funds for my dancing trip to Paris in November this year. I have been making lots of my own brand of jewellery and want to get a place in the tourist shop to sell them. Today I went there and it was so funny because the person working in the tourist office was....my dancing teacher....
Anyway it turns out we have to write to Visit Scotland and ask their permission which could take 3 weeks to get a reply as they are very busy. So I will let you know how that goes...
Anyway it turns out we have to write to Visit Scotland and ask their permission which could take 3 weeks to get a reply as they are very busy. So I will let you know how that goes...
Sunday, 27 February 2011
Earthquake - epicenter in Glenuig, Western Scotland 23/1/2011
Jan 23, 2011 - An earthquake - epicenter in Glenuig, Western Scotland - registering 3.5 originated at 16km below the ground and affected areas 120km (74 miles) away.
Read the full article here: http://www.earth-issues.com/tag/oban/
It comes two weeks after residents in the North Yorkshire town of Ripon experienced a quake of a similar size on 4 January.
The Highland quake was the largest in the area since a seismic event of a magnitude of 3.4 was detected at Glenfinnan in October 2008.
Seismologist Davie Galloway said the UK tended to experience such quakes, on average, about once a year.
He added: “Britain is criss-crossed by many geological faults but fortunately we are some distance away from the plate edges where most activity is experienced.”
Also see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-12262293
Read the full article here: http://www.earth-issues.com/tag/oban/
It comes two weeks after residents in the North Yorkshire town of Ripon experienced a quake of a similar size on 4 January.
The Highland quake was the largest in the area since a seismic event of a magnitude of 3.4 was detected at Glenfinnan in October 2008.
Seismologist Davie Galloway said the UK tended to experience such quakes, on average, about once a year.
He added: “Britain is criss-crossed by many geological faults but fortunately we are some distance away from the plate edges where most activity is experienced.”
Also see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-12262293
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
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