I was surfing around recently and came upon this video, which really took my breath away, it was the sort of moment when at the end of Tarrant on TV when he introduces a thought provoking clip.

So here’s my thought provoking clip title “Today it’s the sparrow, tomorrow it could be you” See drawings come to live, what was once dead, now gets a second chance.

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As some of you may have read recently with regards to the bad luck I had with my Mini Cooper, it’s was nice to have a gorgeous sunny day today to lift my spirits.

Though I had to go to work this morning, I have had the rest of the afternoon in some fantastic June sunshine with the temperature in the back garden hitting around 27°c and believe me it felt a lot hotter and even now it’s still around 21°c, lurvely

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Just a quick post for you today, not much time I’m afraid! With everyone jumping on the band wagon of protecting the environment, I thought I would just ask a question for today’s post and start a discussion on what your point of view is.

So as you have already read the question in the post title, that’s what I’m asking:

Which do you think is the best way to go when it comes to using batteries for your devices at home, such a TV remotes etc. Rechargeable or Non-Rechargeable?

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It will be interesting to see how everyone reacts on this and never fear I will be back tomorrow with a longer post

The word ‘barbecue’ is a synonym to any kind of outdoors social gathering where food is being cooked and served fresh.  People around the world tend to think that it has been their country, nation, race, or ethnicity that invented barbecue.

The truth, however, lies elsewhere as different people from different cultures have been cooking their meat with the high heat of a fire, usually lit outdoors, since thousands of years ago. Smoking, baking, braising, grilling using would, charcoal, natural gas or electricity, barbeques have always been popular in every corner of the planet.

Argentina

‘Gauchos’, the traditional inhabitants of the vast Argentinean plains (Pampa) have a long tradition in ‘asado’ (grilled meat), accompanied by a piece of bread so they don’t get burnt.  Argentines claim they are blessed producing   ‘world’s best meat’, which may be true given the size of the country in relation to its population, as well as the free lifestyle of their cattle. Using high quality meat is half the secret, though. What makes the real difference is how the meat has been cut, which putting it in simple words is ‘as thick as possible’ but it is much more complicated.  The seasoning is always quite simple, as good quality meat doesn’t’ need any kind of special sauce, apart from a generous amount of salt.
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It’s not very often we get snow here on the North Wales coast, it’s due to the fact that we are so close to the see that it only makes it to the hills behind us, but, yesterday we had a barrage of snow coming down and we were all bought to standstill. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s time to slap on the sun lotion as soon as you can if your living or visiting our little island this week as we prepare for a heatwave to hit the country.

It’s been forecasted that this week could break all the records over the years with temperatures hitting 30°C (86°F) in the middle of the week, which would make it the hottest spell for years!

But despite all this the forecasters have also said that this will not be a solid wall of sunshine as it will be broken up by the odd thundery downpours, it will also feel humid and the pollen counts will rise, which is just what us hay fever sufferers need!

The Bookmakers Ladbrokes is offering odds of 8/1 that Wales beats its top temperature of 35.2C, and 17/2 that Scotland tops 32.9C or Northern Ireland exceeds 30.8C.

Ladbrokes have also set 13/2 that the  top temperature midweek will hit 32°C (91.4°F).

I know that our back garden here in North Wales has hit 29.4°C (84.9°F) which has felt a little cooler by a nice coastal breeze, but it’s still hot and it’s lovely, but have we got this hot spell for a short time, will it disappear next week and return to rain, rain and more rain. We will se but I’m personally hoping for a good run of warm weather, yes the odd shower would be nice to cool everything down at night, but the warm spell would perfect for BBQs and garden lounging

Those of you who have been following my Tweets lately will of noticed that I have made several over the last few days about the weather and how gorgeous it has been.

And for that haven’t been following my tweets, why not!…. 

Anyway over the last few days here on the lovely North Wales coast we have had some absolutely gorgeous weather, on Wednesday our back garden hit around 28°c (82.4°f) and yesterday we hit around 30°c (86°f) in the back garden and the conservatory was even hotter, with the hottest been an unbearable 39°c (102.2°f). Who needs to go on holiday when the weather is this good

Thursday night was great later as we had an amazing BBQ, yes another one, and a quantity of chilled wine to wash the burgers, sausages, kebabs etc down, now I’m just hoping that the weekend has the same sort of weather, a few showers thrown in for a few minutes would be great to chill everywhere down.

So here’s to possibly and hopefully the best summer in years PARTAY!!!!!