take your eye off the ball for a second..................

[Martin]

during my incarceration in hospital, one of the few saviours of my sanity was the free radio channel that pumped out Radio4/World Service 24/7...................
One of the last programmes I listened to before being let out was this........
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusi ... ness.shtml
- for me, very interesting - a really good explanation of the German system that has put them way out there in the lead for renewables - best of all, that squirming eejit Wickes gets a really good roasting - and someone says loud and clear "there is a cadre in government doing it's best to stifle renewables, so that nukes can flourish"................
In the meantime - guess what? - permissions granted for wholesale development of nuclear power....................all to be built close to the sea for cooling water.........(ain't they heard of surges?)..............
And the "great and good" just "forget" things, apparently with complete immunity....... (I'd suggest we all start "doing a Hain") - ermn sorry , overlooked my poll tax, I'm an awfully nice chap doing a great job, so that's all right isn't it?
Resign you arrogant b*stard!

[kimmie]

wb back martin, good to see online again!!

[ina]

You certainly haven't lost you sense of humour - good to see you back in full swing!

I hadn't heard of that solar power station yet - how did Britain manage not to build this, seeing that it's the biggest in the world? Usually that's a tag they like to fix onto anything that's built here... Biggest wind farm etc...

[snapdragon]

welcome back Martin- back like a whirlwind with all guns blazing eh? well what more (or less) would we expect

I'm still waiting for a vat allowance against any sort of non carbon based home heat / energy system

still waiting -------- waiting -------- waiting -------- waiting -------- waiting -------- waiting -------- waiting -------- waiting

[Stonehead]

They didn't manage to remove your acerbity then, Martin? Great to see you in fine form.

[Martin]

I may be even worse than before..........
Having been without my lady nicotine for nearly a month, and in view of the type of illness, ~I've decided that restarting smoking is a pretty daft thing to do (oxygenation and all that........) - with my usual propensity for reacting badly to things, they tried a nicotine patches on me in hospital to which I responded by bouncing off the walls bigtime........so it's cold turkey!

[Smooth Hound]

I gave up myself 4 yrs back now, it was hard i must say, but if you can stick at it , its well worth it, youll feel much better for it in the long run

[snapdragon]

hmmm I stopped twice - once when I was pregnant (thats how I guessed I might be) and once after surgery and a day 'out' under anaesthetic - neither of which I'd really like to repeat (errm too old for the first one)

must try giving up again some day