Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cookiemonster wrote:

Bah!

*Brainwave* cookiemonster, could you get your sheep to Kate P's land? That way her grass can be cut by the sheep at no cost to riadach's mhílíste while you remove a menace to your sunflowers. Kill three birds with one stone!

No, no. No need. I'm having lamb for dinner.*fetches shotgun*

cookiemonster wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cookiemonster wrote:

Bah!

*Brainwave* cookiemonster, could you get your sheep to Kate P's land? That way her grass can be cut by the sheep at no cost to riadach's mhílíste while you remove a menace to your sunflowers. Kill three birds with one stone!

No, no. No need. I'm having lamb for dinner.*fetches shotgun*

Well I have to say that that's rather a violent solution to the problem!

You wouldn't see that if you'd seen the sunflower massacre in my garden this morning. Sunflowers have feelings too. 

cookiemonster wrote:

You wouldn't see that if you'd seen the sunflower massacre in my garden this morning. Sunflowers have feelings too. 

Ah but Socrates reminded us that it is better to suffer evil than inflict it!

Well, the long bull run in the wind market spectacularly bust in the time after 1500 hours...



I sense a buying opportunity!

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cookiemonster wrote:

You wouldn't see that if you'd seen the sunflower massacre in my garden this morning. Sunflowers have feelings too. 

Ah but Socrates reminded us that it is better to suffer evil than inflict it!

Were his sunflowers eaten by sheep too?

cookiemonster wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cookiemonster wrote:

You wouldn't see that if you'd seen the sunflower massacre in my garden this morning. Sunflowers have feelings too. 

Ah but Socrates reminded us that it is better to suffer evil than inflict it!

Were his sunflowers eaten by sheep too?

In a metaphorical sense, yes.

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cookiemonster wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cookiemonster wrote:

You wouldn't see that if you'd seen the sunflower massacre in my garden this morning. Sunflowers have feelings too. 

Ah but Socrates reminded us that it is better to suffer evil than inflict it!

Were his sunflowers eaten by sheep too?

In a metaphorical sense, yes.

It all makes sense now! *runs out to field to hug sheep*

Beautiful morning here in the sunny south-east of England. What weather can I expect this afternoon on my return to the dirty old town?

johnfás wrote:

Beautiful morning here in the sunny south-east of England. What weather can I expect this afternoon on my return to the dirty old town?

Warm and overcast on the Northside. Risk of showers.

I blame KateP and Ard Taoiseach for doing a rain dance 2 weeks ago.

johnfás wrote:

Beautiful morning here in the sunny south-east of England. What weather can I expect this afternoon on my return to the dirty old town?

I had to turn on the central heating in the office today. BTW, I jetted in last night myself - the pilot kept talking up the gale warning in Dublin with at least three announcements on how bad it was. He then shook us around a fair bit before plonking us on the runway. There was no big wind to speak of. Do pilots who are crap at landing talk up the weather to keep people from reaching for their rosary beads?

Poor Dolly Parton was nearly blown off the stage last night, by a sharp westerly remnant of a pretty good storm. The poor dear had thermals on under the glittery little frock and what looked like the sleeves of a roadie's jacket sewn into it but was still frostbitten, until given a good warm jacket half way through.

We were all fine, sheltered between the stands. The voice was amazing, like birdsong with honey, and she played the tin whistle, harmonium, guitar and zither, all well, and she asked me to pass on to the members of the Machine Nation that Dolly Loves You All.

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cookiemonster wrote:

Bah!

*Brainwave* cookiemonster, could you get your sheep to Kate P's land? That way her grass can be cut by the sheep at no cost to riadach's mhílíste while you remove a menace to your sunflowers. Kill three birds with one stone!

We've only got a couple of hundred of our own, AT... and not just Charolais, like this lady above. But as CM will testify, they're not happy to eat grass when there are roses, herbs, carnations and salad greens to munch on. Feckers.


Weather is good here, johnfás - bright and breezy.

And as I've just written that Aonghus MacGhrianna has just said there'll be widespread rain across the east and Midlands this afternoon.

One graph is going the right way this morning...

Auditor #9 wrote:

One graph is going the right way this morning...

Woops, just posted without saying anything.

The graph is indeed going the right way. The ISEQ is plumbing Hadean depths at this moment in time. It is truly an appalling vista.

Kate P wrote:

We've only got a couple of hundred of our own, AT... and not just Charolais, like this lady above. But as CM will testify, they're not happy to eat grass when there are roses, herbs, carnations and salad greens to munch on. Feckers.

Ah well, I thought it'd work. Is there any way to entice the sheep to eat the grass? Could you scatter chocolate in the fields to attract them away from the flowers?

It looks like tonight is going to be a wash-out, according to Met Éireann;

It's a reasonably windy day today with the grid at over 50% capacity:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

Kate P wrote:

We've only got a couple of hundred of our own, AT... and not just Charolais, like this lady above. But as CM will testify, they're not happy to eat grass when there are roses, herbs, carnations and salad greens to munch on. Feckers.

Ah well, I thought it'd work. Is there any way to entice the sheep to eat the grass? Could you scatter chocolate in the fields to attract them away from the flowers?

No. Next they'd be expecting handmade Valentine cards and that's a step too far.

I think all that wind is howling around my house. The long grass, the whitethorn and even the tall ash trees in one hedge are doing a rolling green Mexican wave. It's rather therapeutic if I stare at it long enough.

Kate P wrote:

No. Next they'd be expecting handmade Valentine cards and that's a step too far.

Ah, I see. Lamb tagines are your only man for that situation then. Zero tolerance and all that.

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I think all that wind is howling around my house. The long grass, the whitethorn and even the tall ash trees in one hedge are doing a rolling green Mexican wave. It's rather therapeutic if I stare at it long enough.

And it howls onward, I think we're nigh on reaching the full capacity of the wind electrical grid today. Very unstable, turbulent day altogether.

And the windiness continues! It's a great time for the wind energy production so it is!

cookiemonster wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cookiemonster wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cookiemonster wrote:

You wouldn't see that if you'd seen the sunflower massacre in my garden this morning. Sunflowers have feelings too. 

Ah but Socrates reminded us that it is better to suffer evil than inflict it!

Were his sunflowers eaten by sheep too?

In a metaphorical sense, yes.

It all makes sense now! *runs out to field to hug sheep*

Great stuff, as long as hugging is all you're doing!

Hopefully there will be good weather in London tomorrow - I am going over (bad boy, carbon footprint bad this month) for Nelson Mandela's birthday bash in Hyde Park tomorrow and for the weekend thereafter.

Some fecker - carguy - over on p.ie keeps complaining that wind turbines produce only 40% of the max of what they are designed to do - this is called the capacity factor and it tends to be around 40%.

40% of 365 is about 150 days of FREE electricity a year - has anyone any idea of what that would do to the balance of trade per year ?

I think most types electricity generation are wasteful, are they not? A lot of raw energy is consumed, whether peat or water or wind or whatever to turn it into nice neat clean tidy transportable electricity. A comparative graph showing the amount of energy used by different means of generation of electricity would be interesting to see.