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If anyone coming to dollyknot wonders about the colour change, it is in honour of my ex-wife Glynis.

I went to her funeral on the 10th and one of her wishes was people wore purple to her funeral, seeing as I had nothing purple to wear at her funeral, I have decided to colour my website purple, gone but not forgotten Glyn - forever.

Its that time of the year again, football season has restarted.

Leicester has won - good.

Went to get some beer and they have put the price up.

At the shop they said that they had to put the price up because their suppliers had put their prices up, wonder if that extends back to the brewery?

Many years ago I was parked in a layby with my truck and this fellar came up to me and said "sell me some of your diesel - no one will know" quick as a flash I came back to him and said "yes someone will know, I will know!" and wound the window up and completely ignored this not know it all fellar.

The high cost to the human races colonisation of space is caused by
the complexity and danger of reaching escape velocity.

The Space Shuttle turned out to be an expensive dangerous white
elephant, the reason the Shuttle was so expensive is, because of its
complexity with millions of different manufactured parts.

There is another route, we can reach the edge of space no problem
Burt Rutan proved this with Space Ship one when he won the 'X' prize
by reaching over 100 km twice in one week.

Yes the Shuttle was 'reusable' but in name only. They could not have
turned that around in a week.

One idea could be to create rocket fuel on the moon, there is lots of oxygen in moon rocks, use solar energy to extract oxygen then the only problem is the hydrogen.

Fill a big balloon full of hydrogen, make the hydrogen lift a small tank of oxygen, make the oxygen and hydrogen fuel an ion drive, make the ion drive increase the orbital velocity of the balloon. As the orbital velocity increases the balloon will slowly spiral out, this technique was used to transfer a satellite called Smart-1 from earth orbit to moon orbit, it took 17 months.

Use the rocket fuel to fuel a space tug, use the space tug to
accelerate Space Ship one to escape velocity.

Then we can use the moon as a fuel station, there are asteroids of ice, in the asteroid belt put rocket motors on the ice asteroids and fly them to the moon.

The moon is the door to the solar system.

From 1987 to 1995 I was a continental truck driver, so driving on the other side of the road was no stranger to me, the only problem being I tended to drive my car like it was a truck, sort of acting like I had a 40ft trailer behind me.

The thing that sort of impressed me was how my mobile kept up with which country I was in, all part of the Vodafone group of course.

We took a diversion through a small town called Breda in Holland that H liked.

Many years ago I lived in Amsterdam and one things I really liked about the Dutch, was the order that is readily apparent in their cities was tinged with a touch of anarchy. One of the funniest examples for this was that everybody stole bikes, the point being is there was that there was that many bikes about that it did not really matter.

I noticed the same sort of thing in Breda - a nest of bikes.


It would not surprise me if I went back there over a week later to find the same bikes in the same place as a sort of cultural street statement .

Decided to sample a Dutch coffee shop, very nice.

The reason for my trip to Peterborough for a passport, is a friend of mine who has children in Gutersloh Germany, wanted to pay them a visit.

He would normally drive there in his car, but this time he asked me if I would like to drive him there in my Citroen with him covering the fuel and ferry costs, so I thought it sounded ok as a deal and the chance to have an interesting experience.

So we set off at 2:45 PM to arrive at Dover by 6 PM.

It felt familiar to have the deck move under my feet again. We arrived at Dunkirk around 2 hours later.

It is very warm in the UK at the moment.

My themometer reads 30 Celcius therein lies the reason for this post, I
grew up with Fahrenheit in this scale. the temperature is 86 which is
more poetical than 30, which sounds cold.

So my suggestion is we switch to Kelvin.

Todays temperature is 303.15 Kelvins which sounds much warmer.

I have a friend with slightly darker skin than me and he said people with colour prejudice are evil and I replied no, they are ignorant.

No he wouldn't have it that they were ignorant, he was adamant they were evil , so I said they were unaware of the genetic evidence some of which follows.

The more people are aware of this evidence, the more racial prejudice will be marginalized.

By David Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 22, 2009

There is a simplicity and all-inclusiveness to the number three -- the triangle, the Holy Trinity, three peas in a pod. So it's perhaps not surprising that the Family of Man is divided that way, too.

All of Earth's people, according to a new analysis of the genomes of 53 populations, fall into just three genetic groups. They are the products of the first and most important journey our species made -- the walk out of Africa about 70,000 years ago by a small fraction of ancestral Homo sapiens.

One group is the African. It contains the descendants of the original humans who emerged in East Africa about 200,000 years ago. The second is the Eurasian, encompassing the natives of Europe, the Middle East and Southwest Asia (east to about Pakistan). The third is the East Asian, the inhabitants of Asia, Japan and Southeast Asia, and -- thanks to the Bering Land Bridge and island-hopping in the South Pacific -- of the Americas and Oceania as well.

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