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Escapology
So you escaped for our sakes. Now I can go to bed happy having had my fix of EAFOAB's Fable for tonight.
Careful about Houdini impressions, Angharad, remember, he died on the job.
Festive hugs,
Gabi
(whose eyes are a little baGi tonight)
Gabi.
EAFOAB 152
What a way to go!
Oh I see, he died with his boots on, I thought you meant...
John Entwhistle really DID go that way. I bet he was smiling!
Nice one Angharad
I'm catching up...
NB
Excuses
Well besides being the shy, retiring type. This series always seem to effect my breathing. Like our hostess Erin, I have lung problems. Asthma, numerous bouts with bronchitis, pneumonia twice. Some episodes have me holding my breath. Others elicit a contented sigh. Sometimes I'm breathing hard in an effort to keep up. And the quality always seems to leave me breathless. Thank you for your continued efforts on this great series.
A comment?
How can I, a mere plebeian when held against such standards as you have set, make a comment on such a grandiose assemblage of verbiage as this? I could never hope to make a proper comment after reading this finely crafted essay.
Diana
Missed my nap
I had to stay awake all afternoon to get the latest chapter of Charlotte posted to appease the savages 'cause you weren't going to get this up. I could have gotten some more badly needed beauty sleep! ;)
Girl Friday indeed! Friday carries a badge.
Karen J.
"Being a girl is wonderful and to torture someone into that would be like the exact opposite of what it's like. I don’t know how anyone could act that way."
College Girl - poetheather
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
Cathy needs a ...
... Winter bike with mudguards and rack. It's the only way to be 'green' :). I've just dragged out my 25 year old mountain bike on slick tyres for that very purpose. It's still hard to persuade myself to get out on these cold, damp, short days. Full marks to Stella for putting a guilt trip on our heroine.
Can't understand why meat eaters get queasy about certain animals (like cats or horses or ... dormice). If you can eat bit of cow corpse why not anything else if it's palatable? I avoid the problem by not eating any of it, but if I was truly starving I'd eat whatever came near enough to grab. As I often say about the English cooked breakfast - the hen's involved but the pig's committed - lol
Thanks, duck :) for another episode from the loony bin.
Geoff
rule of thumb
herbivores are safer and tastier to eat. cats are for sitting on your lap and purring, not eating! With the logic above, cannibalism would be okay - apart from all the chemicals in humans, the risk of CJD is too high.
Angharad
Angharad
>>> cats are for sitting on
>>> cats are for sitting on your lap and purring, not eating! <<<
After reading that bit, my first thought was of a Bengal Tiger walking into your room and suggesting that you MOVE to the sofa so there was room for her to lay ACROSS your lap and get the adoration she diserved.
Thanks for more fun... If Cathy'll be riding to work more often, she needs to get some sort of "changing room"... I can't see working in riding rig being the best of ideas. :-)
Thanks for the fun.
Phran
My daily comment
Nice job with the chapter today even though it was a bit much with all the tree hugging.I once owned a huge American car with a 440 cubic inch engine that got 8 miles to the gallon on a good day and if I remember my metric conversion right something like 20 kilometers to the U.S. gallon.It had a bumper sticker on the back that said cat the other white meat I figure who am I to argue with a billion chinese.Lol Amy
Silly metrics
~1.6 kilometers equals 1 mile. ~3.8 liters equals 1 gallon.
8 miles per gallon
~12.8 km per gallon
8 miles per ~3.8 liters
~12.8 km per ~3.8 liters
~3.4 km per liter
Edeyn Hannah Blackeney
Wasn't it Jim Henson who said, "Without faith, I am nothing," after all? Wait, no, that was God. Sorry, common mistake...
silly gallons
Are those gallons the US ones? Or the more frugal UK ones?
But I suppose liters are litres the world over.
Hugs,
Fleurie
By the way I have just completed the build of a kit car into which I have squeezed a 1980's Datsun 280ZX engine. I don't know what the fuel consumption is but much seems to depend on my right foot.
Hugs,
Fleurie
Hokey pokey
"... much seems to depend on my right foot."
As opposed to your wrong one? Heh. Perhaps you need to put it in. Then put it out. Then put it in and shake it all about? Oh, and it is the US Gallon. Yes, I'm geeky enough to throw the math about, but apparently not careful enough to differentiate properly. Ah well.
Time to Dance!
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Er... sorry... dunno what came over me...
Edeyn Hannah Blackeney
Wasn't it Jim Henson who said, "Without faith, I am nothing," after all? Wait, no, that was God. Sorry, common mistake...
Imperial v US gallons
A US gallon is 8 x 16 oz pints = 128 ozs. An Imperial gallon is 8 x 20 oz pints = 160 ozs. So a US gallon is only 4/5 of an Imperial gallon. I suppose that makes the US gallon the more frugal?
I used to cycle about twice as far as I drove (10k miles/year v 5k miles/year) but I'm afraid that no longer applies as regards the pedalling :(
Geoff
Frugality Explained
You get more miles from an Imperial gallon so it must be the more frugal.
Hugs,
Fleurie
Imperial v US ounces
Your comparison is interesting, although incorrect. The problem is that the ounces are not the same. This is one reason that much of the world was happy to move to a metric system where a liter is a liter is a liter.
I'm aware of at least 5 entirely different ounces in the western world, as well as a separate Chinese measure which is often translated as "ounce", but is different yet again.
Definitions of "Ounce":
weight:
Avoirdupois, 1 Ounce = 28.349253 grams
Troy, 1 Ounce = 31.1034868 grams
Apothecary, different weight system but has same ounce as Troy.
more:
Amsterdam Ounce, a measure in Indonesia, 30.88 grams
Standard Ounce, a measure in Pakistan, 28.350 grams
volume:
US Fluid Ounce = 29.572702 milliliters
UK (Imperial) Fluid Ounce = 28.41225 ml.
US Dry Ounce (1/16th of a Dry Pint) = 34.4121938 ml.
So, therefore, a US pint, quart or gallon is a bit more than 4/5 of its British cousin. The conversion ratio is that each of these US units makes about .8326747 of its UK namesake.
For what it's worth, pints in each system are defined as 4 gills. The US gill has 4 US ounces and the Imperial gill has 5 Imperial ounces.
More trivia: The US Gallon is also known as the Winchester Gallon and in the UK (which is where it came from in the first place), it is also known as the Wine Gallon. The definition of the Winchester Gallon is exactly 231 Cubic Inches. The definition of the Imperial Gallon is that volume occupied by 10 pounds (Avoirdupois) of pure water at 62 degrees F (and presumably 1 atmosphere of air pressure and 1 unit of Earth gravity.) This latter definition means that one of these British ounces of water weighs exactly one ounce (at the right temp and pressure, etc.)
Meanwhile, I sit here wondering why my German made pilsner glass has an official 0.3 l. marking when EU standards seem to demand 330 ml bottles of beer.
I stand corrected :o)
I always use 28gms (ml) as the conversion (or even 30 if I'm being coarse :) ) for ounces to grams. In any case I generally much prefer to use SI units even though my age tends occasionally to make that difficult (eg my bike frame size has been 22.5" since Pontius was a Pilot). The main problem with wholesale conversion to SI units seems to be that the USA insists on remaining in the 19th, let alone 20th century, and continues using their version of Imperial units. To be fair, there are reactionaries here in the UK who make a point of sticking to old units but they'll die out eventually ... literally.
The only Imperial unit I really like is the pint. Half a litre of draft bitter is too little and a litre is too much. A pint somehow is just right and these days two is enough for an evening :)
Geoff
petrol/Gasoline consumption
In Sweden and in many countries in EUR we use volume per distance, that is Litres per 100 kms.
But it is still the ssame problem for me to translate to the mph in UK or in USA.
Wishing you all a peaceful Christmas period as I will be away for some days.
Ginnie
GinnieG
Consumption confusion
Ever since our petrol pumps started delivering litres instead of gallons I have given up trying to calculate fuel consumption. I bought one of my previous cars when I was working in France and it had a KPH speedometer and odometer. When we metricated our roads stayed the same so we still have MPH speedos (not swimming trunks!!!) in our cars. I got used to Litres per 100kms back then, but now that I once again have an MPH speedo I just get confused. P'raps I could use Litres per 100 miles or MPL (miles per Litre) but at least that would save me having to convert litres to gallons…………
Now I'm all confusticated,
Hugs,
Gabi
Gabi.
Definition of a Litre (L)
A man who used to work for me about 50 years ago but who left during a particularly exciting period because too much excitement made him tired, defined a Liter thus "A Stupid measurement - too little petrol and too much beer!" (Poor Martin!)
Sorry to have taken so long to reply, but I am just re-reading Angharad's fantastic NEVER ENDING STORY from the start, again. It is not every tale that can survive this, but this one does!
Briar
Briar
driving green
at the moment I'm driving what my kids call The Batmobile... It's a 1991 Pontiac Grand Prix SE... 2 door 3.1 OHC 6... whatever that all means.. I bought it used with 45 thousand miles on it back in '95.. Today it has 104,350 miles on it..
I drove it up to visit Sapphire last weekend and got 23 mpg on the highway both ways.... gassed up at home and watched it drop to 16mpg on the first fill up.. I'm guessing that when I refill it tomorrow I will see around 12mpg. By the time I can afford to replace this with something green.. the green thing will have to be at least 6 years old and be in such poor condition that my mileage wont change one iota.. LOL I wish I could afford something better but I'm at the point where my auto insurance is under 1,000.00 dollars a year.. Life sucks when your poor and out of work since the Towers Tumbled.
Nora
If we're talking cars....
....I have a '93 Citroen Xantia, diesel turbo, with over 145,000 on the clock. It does about 40mpg.
Whereas my Specialized hardrock XC MTB has done over 2,000 miles and only used a smidgeon of oil, on the chain! The same goes for Dolly, my Specialized Dolce road bike (I have a few other bikes too).
Have a green Christmas.
Festive hugs,
Angharad
Angharad
Green vs Comfort
My Chev. Cavalier gets about 34 MPG EPA estimated, real life a bit less as the traffic around here is not conducive to maximizing gas milage. However, I do it with a roof over my head, a decent-sized trunk for suitcases, groceries or what-have-you, windshield wipers (and a windshield), heat and AC, a AM/FM Stereo CD Player, reclining seats and a holder for my cup of coffee. Try that on your Specialized! Oh, and the only pedals I have to push are the go-fast and stop ones. :P
Karen J.
"Being a girl is wonderful and to torture someone into that would be like the exact opposite of what it's like. I don’t know how anyone could act that way."
College Girl - poetheather
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
Green vs. family
Here I am driving a Dodge Caravan... A real "mom" mobile. But it gets the family around... Now why couldn't they have put a hybrid engine in this pig. Well, we do get about 22 miles / US gallon on the highway. My spouse, on the other hand (who does 34 miles each way - across Manhattan) drives our Kia Rio which gets 33-36 miles/ US gallon. I wish I could say I get more miles on my bike, but sadly this isn't the case.
Phran
Dreaming of a White Christmas—
Angharad wrote:–
I don't think there’s a possibility of a white Christmas in our part of the UK, Angharad, but I hope you have a merry one.
You'll hate my car, it's an old Volvo estate, 1990 with over 200,000 miles on the clock; it's not very economical and with petrol (gas in US) at £1.02 per litre—approx £4.62 (0ver $9.00) per imperial gallon, I think twice before going on any unneccessary journeys. However it suits my arthritic joints and enables me to live independently. And I ALWAYS give due courtesy to cyclists, having been one in the past, but, sadly, creaky joints (ankles and knees) preclude cycling nowadays.
Christmas hugs,
Gabi
Gabi.
When I said the comments were more interesting....
.... than my stories, no one believed me. Maybe they will next time.
Angharad
Angharad
Part 151
marie c.
You or someone has intimidated me into sending a comment. I love being intimidated! More, please! Ohhhhhh. Carry on.
Will this be in published form someday?
It continues to be an excellent story of a young TS in a Barbara Cartland style, but good!
marie c.
Barbara Cartland!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
How could you?
I'll just have to go rip a bodice now!
Angharad
Angharad
How convenient!
Guess what you are getting for Christmas? :)
Karen J.
"Being a girl is wonderful and to torture someone into that would be like the exact opposite of what it's like. I don’t know how anyone could act that way."
College Girl - poetheather
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
EAFOAB
Hey! I can't comment on every flippin chapter.
You really are a slave driver!
I'm reading about now until I get to chapter 200.
Stop being greedy.
Beverly.
But, but, I've really,
But, but, I've really, really been trying to but the dog ate my Dormouse!
My excuse..
Is that I haven't been able to find a way to comment without replying to someone else's comment! o.o
A poem
There once was a girl in Britain,
Whose readers were thoroughly smitten.
She wrote day after day,
For little or no pay,
and the ending,
it is still pending.
Excellent!
Excellent!
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Wonderful mental painting of
Wonderful mental painting of Cathy's day. I feel like I'm following in her wake seeing everything that happens
Kind of riding her emotions, stressful and busy but normancy reigns.
What are you going to do to Cath next ?
Cefin
The better question might be:
What ISN'T she going to do to Cathy next?
Cathy has been harassed by BigMac and Tiger, her mother died, her father has had two strokes, she was getting nasty notes which apparently culminated in Mary's attack, Simon was shot while helping with the dormouse fieldwork, the Prof was injured in Mary's attack, she had her emotions run through the wringer on her last visit with Dr. Thomas, and that's just the nastiest things I can remember.
Now she's trying to juggle a higher workload, getting up to Bristol to visit her father whenever possible, the session with the other psych, the possibility of getting her SRS, which would lead to a fair amount of downtime for her, being engaged to Simon, training people for the dormouse section of the project, and who knows what else. She needs some serious time to relax, or she's going to explode from all the stress!
Sorry...
a random dormouse chewed up my comment.