COLD DARK ROOM

[meech008]

I actually just read that in 2004 it was still number one, with 16 times more suicides per 100,000 than than US.
Lithium?
is that right.
help!
Wifey's got me........................................................................................

She wants to spend time with you!

 

[Cowboy_Ken]

Adam, I'd like to light a small candle over here for Mini, okay. Not to bring light to the cold, dark room, but for, you know, healing. Do I have your blessings?

 

[Lyn W]

That's right, though it has some basis on old legends.
The people of those cold climes couldn't understand how in the early spring there were only a few lemmings about and by midsummer there'd be thousands of them. So they had stories and legends that told of them 'falling out of the sky'.
Now, as Bea says, Disney got the wrong end of the stick and thought it meant jumping off cliffs.
So for their 1958 nature documentary "White Wilderness" they rounded up thousands of lemmings and drove them over the edge of a cliff to make good TV . The voice-over pronounced how the survivors which ended up in the river would be drowned. That bit at least was probably true.
The Film won the Oscar that year for Best Documentary and the rest is 'history'.

What? They killed all those lemmings to make a good film? How barbaric!!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

My Cold Dark Room is your home too, Ken.
You're welcome.
I will light a candle myself as well.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Clocks went back again last night, the third time change this year so far.
Silly Morocco.
Doesn't matter much in The Cold Dark Room but, if my friend Zac has forgotten, he'll be an hour late instead of here in ten minutes.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Cold Dark Room best wishes going out to Big Bertha.

 

[Lyn W]

Clocks went back again last night, the third time change this year so far.
Silly Morocco.
Doesn't matter much in The Cold Dark Room but, if my friend Zac has forgotten, he'll be an hour late instead of here in ten minutes.

Good morning Adam!
It must be very confusing being a time traveller in Morocco.
So are you back on BST now?

 

[Lyn W]

Cold Dark Room best wishes going out to Big Bertha.

I was just going to say the same thing about lighting a candle for her as well myself!
I swear you can read my mind sometimes - which is quite worrying!!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Good morning Adam!
It must be very confusing being a time traveller in Morocco.
So are you back on BST now?

Morning, Lyn.
Yes, same time as you lot now, Casablanca Time.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I was just going to say the same thing about lighting a candle for her as well myself!
I swear you can read my mind sometimes - which is quite worrying!!

Not at all.
I think we're quite similar in many regards.
Lucky us.

 

[Lyn W]

Not at all.
I think we're quite similar in many regards.
Lucky us.

Maybe not so lucky for everyone else though!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Maybe not so lucky for everyone else though!

Partly why I opened up My Cold Dark Room.
Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

 

[Lyn W]

Partly why I opened up My Cold Dark Room.
Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

A very good move indeed!!

 

[Lyn W]

Its quite dull, grey and damp here in Wales again today, but now Lola has his sun room (basically a huge piece of plexiglass bent over between a wall and tent pegs) He has a large dry sheltered area on his grass which he can go out on later.

What are you Wifey and Zac up to today?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Wifey's teaching English this morning, Tidgy's eating weeds and Zac and I will discuss the weeks news events and talk for a couple of hours before he has to go see his gran.
However, he's 25 mins late, so I think he's forgotten to change his clocks.
Then I'm back to taxonomy and monocotyledons.
Got any plans?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

What? They killed all those lemmings to make a good film? How barbaric!!

And it got an Oscar for heaven's sake!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Morning all you denizens of My Cold Dark Room.
Morning armadillos.

 

[Lyn W]

Wifey's teaching English this morning, Tidgy's eating weeds and Zac and I will discuss the weeks news events and talk for a couple of hours before he has to go see his gran.
However, he's 25 mins late, so I think he's forgotten to change his clocks.
Then I'm back to taxonomy and monocotyledons.
Got any plans?

May be going for a picnic with some of the family or it may become a BBQ - depends on the weather really.
But nothing academic for me today - or for the next 6 weeks!!

 

[Lyn W]

Morning all you denizens of My Cold Dark Room.
Morning armadillos.

,,,,oops forgot the armadillos! A belated good morning to them too!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

The Spanish inventor Jeronimo de Ayanz y Beaumont patented the steam engine in 1606, but steam power to produce mechanical movement goes back even further.