Re: Sunday AM, coffee, RCTY, blog-surfing, podcasting, etc...

On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:20:56 +0200, YarnWright wrote:

Bernadette spun a FINE 'yarn':

On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:27:29 -0500, Shillelagh wrote:


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Storms last night into the morning have THIS rcty-er groggy this AM,
so coffee is flowing
into my veins as I type.
It is 'supposed' to turn into a nice day.... we shall see. Hope
everyone is doing all right.
Going blog-surfing and uploading podcasts a little later... in the
meantime I'm trying to
convnce Don that jewlery and lingerie shopping is in top order for the
day, grin!
Hugs,
Noreen

Not up early here. I helped a friend move yesterday (along with a few
other people) and I
must admit I'm just getting too old to do that anymore. I'm SO
exhausted, and I
wanted to get so much done out in the garden today. I'm running out of
time to plant seeds,
so must finish up this week.

I'm still working on a Clapotis scarf from Fleece Artist Blue Face
Leicester, and I love it.
I think it's going to be fabulous when it's all blocked and ready to
wear (not that I'm rushing
into winter - not at all).

Other project is still the felted Stained Glass Bag. I'm on the home
stretch with it and will
be doing another one in brighter colours when I'm finished this one.

Ken & I will be off to British Columbia for a short fishing vacation
next week and we're
very much looking forward to that. With gasoline prices the way they
are, this may be our
last driving vacation. We're paying the equivalent of $4.91/U.S.
gallon right now. Gasp!

I hope everyone's having a good weekend. Shelagh

That's cheap Shelagh! See article at: http://tinyurl.com/4qonpz <quote>
As oil prices reached an all-time high, experts forecast the cost of
petrol could hit an average of £1.21 per litre within months. <end
quote>. Today we paid £1.19 to fill our tank.

There are approx 2 Canadian or American Dollars to each British Pound at
the moment and 1 gallon is equivalent to 4.54 litres. The cost per litre
was is £1.19.

So, £1.21 (cost per litre) x 4.54 (number of litres in a gallon) =
£5.49 (cost per gallon in the UK) x 2 (as £1 sterling exchanges to $2
at present) = $10.98 per gallon over here. :-(

Apart from all that, have a lovely holiday. :-)
<end quoted>

Bernadette. . .

I had heard recently that to fill a semi (tractor trailor) with diesel in
the UK, it was now well over $2000.00 in US dollars!! I believe, if
memory serves, the last report I heard about diesel prices HERE were
costing our truckers between $800 and $1400 per fill..... it's terrible,
it's worldwide, and solutions seem to be non-existant! Hugs,
Noreen

Noreen

People's anger is being directed against our government because
most of that cost is tax. For many years each successive government has
treated the motorist here as the milch cow. When our petrol cost just over
96 pence per litre 61.3 pence of that was tax. See:
http://uk.theoildrum.com/story/2006/5/3/17236/14255
This is why there are protests about reducing the amount of tax levied on
it. The percentage of tax levied at the moment by the government stands at
over 69% according to the latest reports.

The other problem is that the number of crops now being grown for use as
bio-fuels is creating a world shortage of food.
--
Bernadette
.

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