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Zoey
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What's the advice in the UK about disposing of leaking batteries? Can they go to the council battery recycling place along with their non-leaking cousins?
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Penny S
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That's what I do - the important chemicals/metals are still in there. In fact, mine don't go to disposal until they are leaking, since I have one of those gizmos that perks up alkaline batteries as well as recharging NiMH and NiCad versions.
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I don't expect anyone can answer this. Today I had to go up the garden to open the back gate for the window cleaner. I found that I had to move some soil from the path below the bottom step down from the veggie patch to the flagged part. It was lovely crumbly loam, such as does not come in a bag, and very neatly arranged to cover one flagstone.* To one side is a flower bed with young primroses I planted out about a month ago, and there is no soil disturbed. I remember that some soil had come out from the seed tray in which they had grown, but see below. To the other, another bed with a lavender bush and a rose bush, and a low dry-stone wall where I built up the soil level about a month ago, and where that soil has not been disturbed. The veggie patch has no disturbed soil. The step rests on bricks and sand, so nothing has been digging tunnels out there.
On return from being away, last week, I went up the garden to carry out war on caterpillars on the brassicas, and saw no soil. I took the hose up to wash the results off, and saw no soil. The soil had no trace of the hose lying on it, nor footmarks. I went up this week to pick beans and blackberries and saw no soil.
It has been raining on several occasions, and the soil has not become muddy.
I think I need to check for a rathole I have missed, but otherwise have no idea what has gone on.
*My native soil is yellowish clay-with-flints, but I have been working on the beds with compost and purchased top soil.
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Ants? In my experience they've always been the source of lovely fine loam in strange places.
I'm not sure why they do this, but have wondered whether they were starting to build an ant hill and then changed their minds for some reason - and the wet weather could have been a reason.
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Penny S
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They would have to have been very large ants - the loam grains aren't ant-heap size. But, in the meantime, I have been out to rescue my washing from its extra rinse, and to tidy up the soil better than I did this morning to allow free access to the window cleaner, and have discovered that there is now a rat run along behind the flower bed, against the clay subsoil of the veggie patch, and sheltered until now by lavender and geraniums. One has to admire the neatness of the workratship. (I have just asked my friend to let me have my humane trap back, since he rang at thst moment.) I may put down some of the lion poo I used to keep Weasley* and Douglas, the local ginger cats, out. Or ask to borrow W & D.
*W's owner was very apologetic when she told me the name - it wasn't their choice, he was a rescue cat.
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Brenda Clough
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I have not found that cats will hunt on command. Nor are rodents all that smart. I have three cats, and the voles still come into the yard in spite of tremendous mortality!
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Penny S
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My grandmother's cat hunted rabbit for her - at least once. And see Egyptian wall paintings. But W&D wouldn't actually have to hunt - just leave the scent around.
And rats have rather more brain than voles, or why would they be used for maze-running to test models to be applied to humans.
And I have seen a hamster apply a considerable amount of intelligence to the task of getting a carrot to its cache, which took 20 minutes of concentration and forethought.
1. Attempt to get carrot through entrance to tube while holding in mouth like pirate's sword, and fail.
2. Go down tube to position where it can turn, return and pull carrot down by one end, and push it past.
3. Climb over carrot and go all the way to the cache, which involved turning 90deg down into a cage, up another tube, another 90deg turn, along another tube and down to the cache.
4. Return to carrot, chew it in half so it was in manageable portions, take first part to cache and return for second part.
We stopped a maths lesson to watch.
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Indeed, rodents are much smarter than you may think. I've seen a (small but cheeky and feisty) guinea pig show intelligence in moving a hay rack (wooden manger-type one that folds up) in order to create a barrier so she had all the hay to herself.
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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
...Nor are rodents all that smart...
Oh, I don't know. We have a mouse living in the front room at the moment who keeps jumping over the mousetraps. It's like a mini-steeple chase.
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Rodents may be smart, but my brain is fraying. Can someone come to my rescue please? I have set this computer on full screen using the F keys at the top of the keyboard and have forgotten how to undo this function.
Laptop running windows7
This means I can't access some of my favourite places. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
Huia - having a senior episode.
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I use ESC.
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Ariel, thank you so much. I kept trying F10 and going to a really weird place, then having to log out.
Computers can be so frustrating when you are a Bear of very little Brain
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Whilst we're on the subject of computers, when mine says 'Not Responding' - well, if it knows it's not responding,, why doesn't it start responding?! ... I've never had a plain answer to this from a techy person ..
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Right to keep computers running several programs at the same time they all operate in their own little box. Then the Operating System tries to coordinate all those boxes so you get the right info at the right time.
Well not responding means the OS has knocked at one little boxes door and instead of getting the expected reply has got silence. Now it could be because: the program in there is really busy, it has gone deeply to sleep or it simply has died. Like schroedingers cat it could be in any of those states but as the box is sealed so that other programs can't interfere with it, you can not tell which. If you open the box to look it will automatically die. Your choice is to wait and see if it starts responding or kill it and start again.
This is a crude explanation because the boxes are nothing like boxes in reality but that helps the visualisation.
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"To violate a persons ability to distinguish fact from fantasy is the epistemological equivalent of rape." Noretta Koertge
thesis progress (back as I was)
I wish I'd seen that quote while the Scientism debate was going.
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Does anyone know any good apps (Android for preference, but also iOS) or good online resources to enable a native Cantonese speaker to negotiate English? There is a newly arrived family at our child's school, and very few ESL opportunities round here.
Thank you ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Brenda Clough
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I will ask a friend who adopted a teenaged girl from Guangdong.
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Has anyone tried a laser keyboard? If so, I'd be interested to know what you thought.
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Has anyone tried a laser keyboard? If so, I'd be interested to know what you thought.
Not great for sensitive fingertips.
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This is mostly for anyone with a knowledge of Scottish authors of books for children. I've been trying to track down a book I read some time ago (30, 40 years, even).
The way my subconscious filing system works, two books with similar themes which I read on separate occasions have been merged and identified as "The Big House" by Naomi Mitchison. (The system has on a previous occasion linked to articles in Scientific American, published several years apart, about archaeological research into prehistoric drift mining and solution hollows in the Netherlands and Austria. Very clever, but can be confusing.) I have now acquired the Mitchison, and found that although some of what I remembered is in it, other material is not there.
Both books involve 20th century children having to deal with the Sidhe in a quest to put something right. I suspect that the one which is not by Mitchison is less deep, and has less to say about society. (The introduction suggests that the book was originally criticised for its political stance. Deano wouldn't like it.)
In the other book, the children had to travel across the country, possibly by magical means, to find their way into the fairy mountain of Schiehallion. In doing so, they had to visit three ostensibly ordinary elderly ladies in Pitlochry who advised them on the safest way to do this. (Are these three ladies found in Celtic mythology? I don't think spinning and weaving were involved. Not sure about knitting. And I don't think there was anything odd about their sight.) It was more like Diana Wynne Jones' work than Mitchison's, though not by her.
Does anyone have an idea about what it might be? I know that some authors have had little presence south of the border, though this book had arrived in Dartford. I didn't read it in class, so the details didn't stick well, apart from attaching themselves to Mitchison.
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I have long been familiar with the saying, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." I never saw it attributed to anyone until recently. Nowadays, I keep hearing it attributed to Einstein.
I don't know a lot about Einstein, but this just doesn't feel right. Does anyone know if he said it? If not, does anyone know who did?
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It wasn't from Einstein. Here is more information.
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Penny S
Are you mixing your book up with Auntie Robbo by Ann Scott-Moncrieff?
It has a boy on the run from his stepmother with his eccentric great aunt and they pick-up more stray children on their journey through the highlands.
I remember a cousin getting this for Christmas years ago and she did nothing for the rest of the season until she'd finished the book - at which point the rest of us passed it around too.
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Odd Facebook question. I'm one of the admins of our church FB page. Another admin posted about preparations for the children's nativity play - just a routine post. As an admin I get notifications of "likes" etc which I don't pay much attention to; there are always a couple of dozen "likes" per post.
However one has just popped up from someone whose profile picture is a gun and bullets. It seemed odd so I checked it out. The "liker" appears to be a young Muslim in Pakistan.
How / why would a young male Muslim Pakistani who likes "sexy guns" find, let alone "like" a request for donations of blue and white material and tinsel posted on a Scottish Presbyterian church's FB page?
Is this odd? Is it some sort of FB spam?
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North East Quine: How / why would a young male Muslim Pakistani who likes "sexy guns" find, let alone "like" a request for donations of blue and white material and tinsel posted on a Scottish Presbyterian church's FB page?
An opportunity to convert him through decoration material!
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I've checked through all our "likers" (all 23 of them!) and found a second young male Pakistani; he had a photo of himself as his profile picture, so wasn't noticeable.
Originally posted by Le Roc:
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An opportunity to convert him through decoration material!
What, like - "Come to Scotland, join our church and you could donate offcuts of material and empty 2 litre fizzy drink bottles to make new outfits and props for our Nativity!"
It would be a new approach to evangelism, I suppose.
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Penny S
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Originally posted by L'organist:
Penny S
Are you mixing your book up with Auntie Robbo by Ann Scott-Moncrieff?
It has a boy on the run from his stepmother with his eccentric great aunt and they pick-up more stray children on their journey through the highlands.
I remember a cousin getting this for Christmas years ago and she did nothing for the rest of the season until she'd finished the book - at which point the rest of us passed it around too.
Thank you, but I'm pretty sure that wasn't it. Few adults of the real world taking part, and I don't think I would have picked out a book with that title. A further memory has surfaced - interpreting a Pictish Stone was involved in the plot, possibly with an elephant-like image.
It was almost like a child's version of a later Tom Holt story!
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Tangent//
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
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North East Quine: How / why would a young male Muslim Pakistani who likes "sexy guns" find, let alone "like" a request for donations of blue and white material and tinsel posted on a Scottish Presbyterian church's FB page?
An opportunity to convert him through decoration material!
Actually, you might be onto something there. This post has already had a better response than our real-life attempt to bribe people into the church hall with free pizza.
// End tangent
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North East Quine: What, like - "Come to Scotland, join our church and you could donate offcuts of material and empty 2 litre fizzy drink bottles to make new outfits and props for our Nativity!"
It would be a new approach to evangelism, I suppose.
You never know, it might work
I don't know very well how FB works, but have you considered asking him why he likes your page?
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I've just been searching with the terms I included above - there are some daft ideas out there. Would you believe a connection between the Dogon (you know, the tribe who know, without access to powerful telescopes, about the very small companion of Sirius) and the carvers of Pictish stones?
I'm trying to get synopses of Mollie Hunter's many books.
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Not that it helps, Penny S, but the Pictish elephant-like image is the one in my avatar - it's known as the Pictish beast, because it's not clear what it's supposed to be. One suggestion is that the Romans might have brought an elephant across and it's a representation of that.
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Thanks for that - I hadn't realised that that was what your avatar was! I did know about the Pictish beast - but couldn't be quite sure if I had added it later. The way my brain works, it would be perfectly capable of doing that without notifying me.
I've just checked the photos from a recent trip to Ultima Thule - I have actually seen one in situ on the Maiden Stone near Aberdeen before going on to Orkney and Shetland. (It was passing the Aberdeen Waterstone's that started me on this hunt - if I'd known I was looking for two books, I might have found more about it in their Scottish Children's section.)
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Originally posted by Tukai:
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Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
The answer maybe because that is the way William Playfair did it.
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x-y co-ordinates go back to Descartes (17th century), which is why they are also called Cartesian co-ordinates. And he plotted y as a function of x (i.e. y dependent , x independent).
Have a little history of visualisation . There's a link between cartesian co-ordinates and artillery which would have made sense to have range horizontal and altitude vertical, but the examples there are much older.
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Has there been a discussion in Ship of Fools about twins Agnes and Margaret Smith, (Mrs Lewis and Mrs Gibson)? I have just finished listening to a book called 'Sisters of Sinai' about themI had never heard of them before. . It was an excellent book and as they were so famous because of their involvement with translation of ancient manuscripts and the Presbyterian Church, I thought they might well have been mentioned. I'm afraid I'm not good at searching forthings so would be grateful for help here.
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Originally posted by North East Quine:
... the Pictish elephant-like image is the one in my avatar ...
I never really looked closely, but I saw your avatar as a kind of sea-horse ... ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
Now that I've seen bigger images of it, it's not like a sea-horse at all. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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SusanDoris - nothing coming back from Google. I think I would have remembered such a thread cropping up on The Ship.
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Firenze
thannk you. It is clear from the book that the sisters' faith never wavered throughout their lives. I'll see if I can come up with some point which would start a discussion!
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Boyfie and I have been together about a year and as he has limited speech the way we communicate is through him writing, using signs, I do understand a little of what he says and when not together Facebook and texting.
He uses Makaton extensively while my knowledge is sketchy* and I would love to learn more. My question is can any one give me any pointers to sources for an adult who wants to learn Makaton.
*toilet, brother and sister etc
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Thanks Firenze, you're an angel I'd seen that site briefly a few years ago when A and I first became friends and had forgotten all about it.
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Boyfie and I have been together about a year and as he has limited speech the way we communicate is through him writing, using signs, I do understand a little of what he says and when not together Facebook and texting.
He uses Makaton extensively while my knowledge is sketchy* and I would love to learn more. My question is can any one give me any pointers to sources for an adult who wants to learn Makaton.
*toilet, brother and sister etc
I am confused, are you saying you have boyfriend type relationship with this person ? Or is Boyfie short for something else ?
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Boyfie is shorthand for boyfriend sorry if that wasn't clear. I sometimes refer to him as A though.
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Boyfie is shorthand for boyfriend sorry if that wasn't clear. I sometimes refer to him as A though.
In the UK makaton courses are often taught by speech and language therapists attached to services for people with a learning disability. I am unclear if this is appropriate for the two of you.
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Both A and myself have Cerabral Palsy. Some of my friends (incl. A) who attended special schools were taught it a there.
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Does anyone know if there exists an English translation of Ernst Bloch's Thomas Müntzer als Theologe der Revolution and if so, where one might obtain a copy?
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German Suhrkamp Publishers have Bloch's complete works. Why not send them an e-mail (in English) asking about an English-language edition? I'm sure they can help.
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I'd expect the British Library would, if such a thing had been published in the UK. Their catalogue says not though - they have other works in translation but not that one.
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A research query, for a novel set in England in the 1860s:
I have here a (fictional) church that is no longer in use, part of a ruinous castle. It was probably closed down as part of the Reformation in England. The local (fictional) peer keeps it more or less in shape because of the ancestors buried within, but services are now held in the Protestant church in the village.
Is it possible for the peer to continue burying his relatives in this church, or the churchyard, even if it is deconsecrated and no longer in use? I assume that his Protestant clergyman can preside over any obsequies. Perhaps someone knows of a real-life instance of this kind of thing.
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