It will be summer soon and i'll start a post about the sun.
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It will be summer soon and i'll start a post about the sun.
Can you start one about the foot of snow we're e expecting on Sunday? Oh, that's this one...
Snow in Springtime is not unusual, but I hope it melts away quickly for y'all :)
This accumulation should put our total at the third highest on record for a season [[dating back 150+ years). We expect snow in the springtime, but c'mon!
Yes, it's adding insult to injury. Nature is fighting back. Bad winter all round.
Not warm, but the temperatures seem much milder here in the south and south-west of England, where most of the excessive rain has appeared to have fallen. I recall only once needing the de-icer on the windscreen in the morning.
Did you see the Northern Lights last night? I heard that they were brilliant in many parts of the UK.
I didn't witness them in person [[I'm not sure I could even see them here on the south coast), but the images captured of the Northern Lights [[ Aurora Borealis) and shown on the BBC'Breakfast' programme yesterday morning [[Friday) were quite remarkable.
I didn't know they were expected, but most of the images were experienced in the northern part of the country - and apparently that is still a little too far south to see them at their best.
The BBC said they could be seen as far south as Essex.
Oh! That's hopeful, maybe for next time. Nothing to stop me travelling up country a little, I guess - although, for some quite unfathomable reason, your words 'as far south as Essex' made me chuckle....:D
The snow came again. It's stopped and is already mostly melted. If the weathermen are to be believed, it'll start again shortly and dump a ton on us by tomorrow morning. But to look outside, it doesn't look like there's a lot more coming anytime soon. Keep your fingers crossed...
It isn't as if you need any more.....
Oh well,here we go more snow on the way...this post may run til june.
If it does, it will be the first time that winter went straight into summer. This could be a most notable year!
I have to plant my[hoochaminiums]those are the little hoochseeds that only g
row in the spring.
If they like a cold start, ideally under snow, then they'll be just fine.
If they don't, you'll need to pick your moment extremely carefully, and work quick :)
What you don't understand is if they don't grow in the sring bad things could happen[they're very volitile] think armageddon,they don't understand the concept of snowplanting[i've tried to explan it to them bt they just hiss and tune me ou].
You'd best find them some glass, and keep it clear of snow. And some warm soil. And talk to them nicely, from time to time. Maybe get in a counsellor......
Ohhh,no they grow above ground on cement[they're allergic to dirt].
I've a cousin who I'd swear is attracted to dirt, judging from the men she brings to our family picnics...
Your cousin, unlike the hoochaminiums, sounds like an earthy sort herself, Jerry....
Hoochie mamas wear hoochaminiums to their high school proms because they are big enough to hide their pregnant bellies.
And are set, in relatively few years, to become extremely young grandmothers. Such is life......
C'est la vie. I guess it is too much to expect priorities to transcend generations. It's sad that children have their own babies almost immediately after putting down their baby dolls for the last time.
If they have a partner, and a support network [[such as their own mother) to lend a hand, and really want the responsibility of being a mother at a very early age, good luck to them.
It's still concerning to see someone give life to another, at such a young age. What can they know about life itself.....
Amen. Too often, their mothers become de facto parents for the baby because the child mothers don't have the maturity to realize that they cannot do the things that they did before having the baby. So, Mom watches the kid as the girl goes out and makes the same mistake all over again. It amazes me when I hear about young women who have four or five kids at age 22. And sometimes [[usually) by multiple fathers, each of who have several kids by several women themselves.
Which proves that having a baby is simply a biological process. Anybody who is fertile can do it. Just nature doing its thing.
Being a responsible parent is something very different, and requires the mind of an adult - and fertile people are not always adults.
It doesn't do to be too smug or 'holier than thou' about it, of course, but it certainly makes us appreciate your own parents more, don't it.....:)
Thinking about the issue in biological terms rather than socially, I wonder if the younger the mother the healthier the baby is.
I would think there is a likelihood of that, as nature does favour the strongest and most vigorous - therefore, the young. But that applies more to the animal world, where the emotional consequences are not taken into account.
However, there could be potential physical consequences for the mother in having the baby early - i.e. under the age of consent, but late teens could well be OK. Would depend on the health of the mother, I suppose.....
Many believe that the onset of puberty is much sooner than it was just a few generations ago. It's a bit frightening to believe that 10-year olds can create a life before they understand how it is created. Should sex ed be taught in elementary school?
I don't have children, so I'm not familiar with how much education on sensitive issues [[e.g. sex) is given to very young children.
I think perhaps a degree of sex education should be taught in elementary school [[totally to ignore it might be worse), but given in the broadest terms [[explaining that boys become men, girls become women, and that each should respect the other) but not in the details which should, at that stage in life, be irrelevant - and therefore, inappropriate.
Some children become very knowing, very quickly - and achieve puberty earlier than the average age - but others progress at different rates. Until they reach the age when it is considered appropriate then, hopefully, they will ask questions of their parents, maybe teachers, if they are curious, or don't understand something
I can't really believe many 10 year olds have fully developed reproductive organs, or would actually want to know more about sex, having babies [[of course, it used to be called 'starting a family'), setting up a home etc.
However, if that did become the norm, then sex education will indeed need to be given at a much earlier age.
Hey guys the hoochaminiums are over here blushing.
Are you sure they're not shrinking violets?
From the smacking sound made when they spring up, they sound more like Tulips to me...
We forget that humans are animals at our peril. Putin's sending Russian troops into Crimea owes as much to territorial instincts as to logical strategy. If there was any sort of logic to the situation, instead of reviving the Cold War by dividing Europe into two camps, Russia would be trying to find ways to itself become a member of the European Union.
Thanks. Now, I'm not going to be able to sleep. The situation in Ukraine just proves that imperialism is alive and well, in both the East and the West in the 21st century.
If I can't sleep, Jerry, why should you? It's half-past-four in the morning here, and I'm listening to Midnight Johnny's show.
It's cool. I am on vacation, so it's a good time to lose sleep.
Have a great time.
144man, presumably the only way I can listen to midnight johnny's show is to do as you do - stay up until the early morning?
That's right. I go to bed at half-past-nine and set my alarm to wake me up in time to tune in at 2am. The programme is streamed, and I listen through my laptop's windows media player.