I'm still a very tired lemuure. The sun's out and it would be nice to go out to sit in the park for a while but I think time out must be spent just getting the groceries sorted out and then coming back to have a rest.
I have a summer cold. Aaaaaa......t ... t....ishoooooooooooooooo. Actually just a tiny sneeze ........ more ..... atishu!!! .... but it can still make you feel as if you're curled up in the grumpy bear's den.
Still, the sun is out and it's a nice day. Whoops .. it's just gone in again. Seems there are still a lot of clouds floating about out there too. But, still, we have our sunshiney day at last. We would like a few more.
But for this one a lemuure has to rest. Not the best timing but it's nice to feel the sun's warmth. This isn't as bad as earlier colds though ... just sssshhhhhh .... a lot of sleepiness.
Saturday 28 July 2007
Not much sunshine
So, I was hoping that today would have the sunshine peeping out from behind the clouds. Well, it did a little but not really enough to make it a bright sunshiney day.
At least it didn't rain much though .... though I can hear the rain splashing as the cars go past now. The paws got a little on the wet side while I was out too.
Yes, it rained again today and I was out in it. Just a smittering and just a smattering though and the paws didn't get too wet as I pottered out.
I'd been expecting more this type of weather.
http://www.honoluluzoo.org/images/lemur_heinz.htm
Though I don't know that this'll be so wise with the globally warmings warnings.
I was reading New Scientist yesterday and was interested in the housing article about using known technology to reduce the impact of building emissions. It suggested that some governments needed to be looking into this and to exchange old style norms for the new.
Quote:
"To see what a different direction might look like, consider the homes built in recent years to Europe's "passive house" standard. By carefully sealing all joints, using high quality insulation and positioning windows to make the most of sunlight, passive houses can be heated using around a tenth as much energy as the average dwelling. 'I can usually heat the house using 10 candles,' says Katrin Klingenberg, an architect who built and lives in a passive house in Urbana, Illinois, where winter btemperatures regularly drop below -10C.
That translates into up to 65% less emissions per house, depending on the energy source."
....................
"The savings get even bigger when you include other measures such as replacing traditional incandescent lightbulbs and old electric water heaters with more efficient alternatives."
The article also states that 5000 passive houses are being built in Europe every year and almost 4000 existing homes are being renovated to the same standard.
The savings alone will knock 14% off residential emissions in 2020 according to a report published by a consortium of European building researchers.
I can't remember how much of this was a part of the findings discussed in the US mag I discussed before I became so ill. The report mentioned here has come out since. The article there stated that firms who had implimented certain technologies had actually found them cost effective but it seems that the US is now undermining this gain.
On a commercial level the article says by changing the way buildings are ventilated there could be a saving of 60% of energy used ...... now. It seems there are many things that could be done now using technologies that are here rather than looking into point blank in the future.
I magine other technologies will be developed along the way. Hopefully energy saving will always be a priority.
Wonders what weather'll be like tomorrow. I know it's unseasonably hot in parts of the US and Australia ... lots 'n' lots of sun then!!!!
Actually I'm a lemuure who doesn't want it too hot right now and certainly won't be Heinzing it soaking up the rays. How tempting it looks though. Not, ofcourse that there's any sun so I suppose I could go out if this continues and cloudbathe for a while, though in my condition I have to remember that those cloudies don't stop all the sun's rays coming through and as an ill lemuure I still have to think about this very carefully indeed.
At least it didn't rain much though .... though I can hear the rain splashing as the cars go past now. The paws got a little on the wet side while I was out too.
Yes, it rained again today and I was out in it. Just a smittering and just a smattering though and the paws didn't get too wet as I pottered out.
I'd been expecting more this type of weather.
http://www.honoluluzoo.org/images/lemur_heinz.htm
Though I don't know that this'll be so wise with the globally warmings warnings.
I was reading New Scientist yesterday and was interested in the housing article about using known technology to reduce the impact of building emissions. It suggested that some governments needed to be looking into this and to exchange old style norms for the new.
Quote:
"To see what a different direction might look like, consider the homes built in recent years to Europe's "passive house" standard. By carefully sealing all joints, using high quality insulation and positioning windows to make the most of sunlight, passive houses can be heated using around a tenth as much energy as the average dwelling. 'I can usually heat the house using 10 candles,' says Katrin Klingenberg, an architect who built and lives in a passive house in Urbana, Illinois, where winter btemperatures regularly drop below -10C.
That translates into up to 65% less emissions per house, depending on the energy source."
....................
"The savings get even bigger when you include other measures such as replacing traditional incandescent lightbulbs and old electric water heaters with more efficient alternatives."
The article also states that 5000 passive houses are being built in Europe every year and almost 4000 existing homes are being renovated to the same standard.
The savings alone will knock 14% off residential emissions in 2020 according to a report published by a consortium of European building researchers.
I can't remember how much of this was a part of the findings discussed in the US mag I discussed before I became so ill. The report mentioned here has come out since. The article there stated that firms who had implimented certain technologies had actually found them cost effective but it seems that the US is now undermining this gain.
On a commercial level the article says by changing the way buildings are ventilated there could be a saving of 60% of energy used ...... now. It seems there are many things that could be done now using technologies that are here rather than looking into point blank in the future.
I magine other technologies will be developed along the way. Hopefully energy saving will always be a priority.
Wonders what weather'll be like tomorrow. I know it's unseasonably hot in parts of the US and Australia ... lots 'n' lots of sun then!!!!
Actually I'm a lemuure who doesn't want it too hot right now and certainly won't be Heinzing it soaking up the rays. How tempting it looks though. Not, ofcourse that there's any sun so I suppose I could go out if this continues and cloudbathe for a while, though in my condition I have to remember that those cloudies don't stop all the sun's rays coming through and as an ill lemuure I still have to think about this very carefully indeed.
Wednesday 11 July 2007
hamsterdancing
Well, off to heat up the oven to heat up the dinner. Pills taken. Got some groceries in though my first walk out was a bit painful. Second time around it wasn't so bad!!!
Ik ben ziek.
Ik heb de pijn.
That is fer the leemuurjes on holiday in Hamsterdam. You just never know if the paws will be poorly or not.
I have left my doctor behind me.
Thankyou.
You'll find that a lot of people there speak English better than I do so you can speak the bi lingual and people'll be able to help and speak English back to you. But a little bit of Dutch extends the paw of friendship.
http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencereport/page50.index.html
And hamsters and lemuures can dance the day away.
Ik ben ziek.
Ik heb de pijn.
That is fer the leemuurjes on holiday in Hamsterdam. You just never know if the paws will be poorly or not.
I have left my doctor behind me.
Thankyou.
You'll find that a lot of people there speak English better than I do so you can speak the bi lingual and people'll be able to help and speak English back to you. But a little bit of Dutch extends the paw of friendship.
http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencereport/page50.index.html
And hamsters and lemuures can dance the day away.
Sunday 8 July 2007
The manuka honey
is very good for lemuures. Well, maybe ...... very good for lemuures with phlegmn!!
And lemuures do have pharmacies but there pharmacies are in the forests and wild places:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3293
As it says some things do not appear to be what they seem at first so please don't try to find the medicines for yourselves.
But in Tesco and Holland and Barrett it is a different story providing you have a little chat with the doctor first. Herbs are medicine as lemuures have said before.
St John's Wort is a good example of this and you should ask your doctor before taking herbal remedies if you are taking orthodox medicines too.
The honey is good. and another lemuureAnd very good it seems for lemures on steroids .. when they need antiseptics for colds.
There is a contra indication though and this is to keep it off the fur. If you can't you're going to end up one very sticky lemuure. Paws will stick to paws and even when disentangled honeyed paws can still be very sticky.
Oh, yes.
Non stick paws
http://www.angelo.edu/faculty/kboudrea/lagniappe/pictures_san_antonio_zoo_2/2_Ring-Tailed_Lemur.JPG
And lemuures do have pharmacies but there pharmacies are in the forests and wild places:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3293
As it says some things do not appear to be what they seem at first so please don't try to find the medicines for yourselves.
But in Tesco and Holland and Barrett it is a different story providing you have a little chat with the doctor first. Herbs are medicine as lemuures have said before.
St John's Wort is a good example of this and you should ask your doctor before taking herbal remedies if you are taking orthodox medicines too.
The honey is good. and another lemuureAnd very good it seems for lemures on steroids .. when they need antiseptics for colds.
There is a contra indication though and this is to keep it off the fur. If you can't you're going to end up one very sticky lemuure. Paws will stick to paws and even when disentangled honeyed paws can still be very sticky.
Oh, yes.
Non stick paws
http://www.angelo.edu/faculty/kboudrea/lagniappe/pictures_san_antonio_zoo_2/2_Ring-Tailed_Lemur.JPG
Tuesday 3 July 2007
I think it's gonna rain today
What a nice start to the day. No rain for a change. Just wispy white clouds drifting by on a blue sky. Perhaps the weather forecasters will have something else to say though and change the day completely.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=1045
Sigh, I thought so ........... the rains are coming our way. Why should it be any different from any other day.
Summer is here.
Still, I'm a lemuure who has to stay in a lot now and the rain is on the outside and I'm on the inside. Though, in the past couple of weeks there's been no avoiding the rain and I've padded the paws around town in and out of the puddlies and off to search out dinner in Tesco.
And what do you know .. you look out of the window again and there are more clouds and more and more clouds and more and more and more clouds outside the windows.
And the day is ready to begin.
But, this isn't as bad as it seems because we've been promised sun and still have that to look forward to later in the day.
Hopefully it'll be nice and dry when I potter off down to see the doctor.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=1045
Sigh, I thought so ........... the rains are coming our way. Why should it be any different from any other day.
Summer is here.
Still, I'm a lemuure who has to stay in a lot now and the rain is on the outside and I'm on the inside. Though, in the past couple of weeks there's been no avoiding the rain and I've padded the paws around town in and out of the puddlies and off to search out dinner in Tesco.
And what do you know .. you look out of the window again and there are more clouds and more and more clouds and more and more and more clouds outside the windows.
And the day is ready to begin.
But, this isn't as bad as it seems because we've been promised sun and still have that to look forward to later in the day.
Hopefully it'll be nice and dry when I potter off down to see the doctor.
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