They have similar events at some places around East Anglia… the  organisers have a net stretched across the river further on from the finishing post. They recover the ducks and ‘sell’ them off again at their next duck race … they don’t swim off into the wide blue yonder … the organisers wouldn’t make as much money if they had to buy loads of new ducks for each race.Â
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
On August 5, local time, the annual "Rubber Duck Competition" was held in Chicago, Illinois, USA. During the competition, the organizers placed 70,000 rubber ducks in the river, and the donor sponsored the ducks "participating in the competition" at a price of $5 each. The first duck donor to cross the finish line will win an SUV. Pollute for chariddy
You should read some of stories of shipping containers lost at sea. In 1992 about 28,000 rubber ducks were lost from a container in the Pacific. People find them washed up all over the world now and the locations have been used to try and map ocean currents. There was also a spill of Lego off Cornwall in 1997 where 4.8m pieces of Lego ended up in the sea. People are still finding them today. 2-3000 containers are lost overboard each year with similar results.
Anyway is it just me or does it really feel like Friday 13th when it's this dark outside?
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
On August 5, local time, the annual "Rubber Duck Competition" was held in Chicago, Illinois, USA. During the competition, the organizers placed 70,000 rubber ducks in the river, and the donor sponsored the ducks "participating in the competition" at a price of $5 each. The first duck donor to cross the finish line will win an SUV. Pollute for chariddy
Completely quackersÂ
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
Wasn't there a container ship flounder off the south coast a few years back and the locals where the containers washed up nicked what they could despite cops trying to stop it? There's a photograph of one guy pushing a superbike up off the beach from one container.Â
Another ship had a lot of its hardwood cargo washed off. It washed up all along the south coast and sometime later a local council had to get a large beach house built out of that wood. It was built in a location only accessible down a cliff or by sea. It had no planning permission and nobody owned up to building it.
For all the damage of containers that have slipped their ship it's not as bad as the harm caused globally by fishing nets and lines used by commercial fishing and even pleasure anglers. My lad used to love the Steve backshall deadly 50 TV programmes. One marine based section he found a coral covered with a net trapping one half of Fish couple inside to die. He cut it away. Another show he saved a turtle and he showed a local guy running a turtle rescue centre that most of their rescues were fishing tackle related injuries. Even in UK rivers when I used to kayak I would see a fair amount of fishing line at times and if not that it was plastic farming debris. We're a very messy species!Â
Text messaging !!! I had a phone call from the Hospice Nurse this afternoon to say she was trying to organise morphine patches for husband. At 19.10 I got a text to say " the prescription is at Boots and you can collect it any time until 6.30 tonight , or after 9am Monday " WHY DIDN'T SHE PHONE?????
Did you not get the information you needed by that text.? If you did it's probably a lot more efficient communication of that message. A phone call needs you there with your phone. A text can just wait until you're next with your phone. Our in another way you're up in your garden working and your phone rings on the dining room table, would you hear it and get there in time? No such issues with a text.Â
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Completely quackersÂ
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
Another ship had a lot of its hardwood cargo washed off. It washed up all along the south coast and sometime later a local council had to get a large beach house built out of that wood. It was built in a location only accessible down a cliff or by sea. It had no planning permission and nobody owned up to building it.
For all the damage of containers that have slipped their ship it's not as bad as the harm caused globally by fishing nets and lines used by commercial fishing and even pleasure anglers. My lad used to love the Steve backshall deadly 50 TV programmes. One marine based section he found a coral covered with a net trapping one half of Fish couple inside to die. He cut it away. Another show he saved a turtle and he showed a local guy running a turtle rescue centre that most of their rescues were fishing tackle related injuries. Even in UK rivers when I used to kayak I would see a fair amount of fishing line at times and if not that it was plastic farming debris. We're a very messy species!Â
I had a phone call from the Hospice Nurse this afternoon to say she was trying to organise morphine patches for husband.Â
At 19.10 I got a text to say " the prescription is at Boots and you can collect it any time until 6.30 tonight , or after 9am Monday "Â
WHY DIDN'T SHE PHONE?????