J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

Can't you video it, or whatever it is that one does today with the new modern technology I haven't got and don't understand?

Ally

'I Robot' is on now, on Film 4 plus 1, if anyone wants to watch it, and tell me what the end means.

Ally

The extra insurance I bought with my lift pass in Val Thorens was called Carre (acute accent on 'e') neige. I don't know where the 'carre' comes from because as far as I know it means 'square' and neige is snow of course. Anyway, I'm planning on buying it again - just in case!

Ally

Dave Mac,
Although nuclear power is cheap to generate, what is incredibly expensive is the capital cost of building the power plant, and then de-commissioning it afterwards. They seem to have only a short operating life of around 40 years, so I would think that the total costs of generating electricity during their lifetime would be considerable.

I also think that they release radiation even when they're working normally, and obviously a lot more if there's an 'accident'. The Irish sea is said to be the most radioactively polluted in the entire world due to Sellafield/Windscale, even though Sellafield is now used for re-processing etc. rather than energy production.

I know why our government is considering building new nuclear power stations. It's simply because we will soon be in a situation where there isn't enough electricity to power the national grid, and conventional power stations produce more CO2 than nuclear ones, and we have promised to control our CO2 production.

I would rather put up with 1960s style power cuts than build more nuclear power plants. And in any case I'm sure people would soon adapt if they were told they would now have an energy quota of e.g. 50% of their current levels. We would all start taking the bus to work/car sharing/use bicycles etc. and build solar systems to heat our hot water, stop using tumble driers, stop buying a new kitchen/bathroom etc. so often, put insulation in our walls and roofs etc. etc.

I think the government should put money into other safe sources of renewable energy like bio-digesters which create bio-gas, etc.

Ally

Rose,
Maybe your poor blind neighbour should get a new guide dog - that one has obviously got it in for him.

I remember years ago, when I was a student at Aber, watching a blind man trying to cross the promenade with his guide dog, from a distance. The blind man couldn't understand why the dog wouldn't take him across, and he was getting quite cross with the dog. What he couldn't see, and the dog and I could, was that there'd been some road works in the middle of the road and there was a great unfenced hole in front of him. So I rushed over to him and explained the situation and then of course he petted the dog and was really pleased with him, because he'd saved him from falling in a hole and possibly hurting himself.

Caron-a what's the DM ski and snowboard mag? I don't think we get that in my cave.

Nelly - have you got one of those new-fangled bubble caves to accommodate your head? And do you have a special hat to keep your head warm in the winter, you must lose a lot of heat through a head that size?

Ally

Dave Mac,
Are you still living in one of those underground caves? I've got one of the newer sort, built on top of the ground, with walls about 2 1/2 feet thick and these things you can see through called windows, which are really great because they bring a lot of light into the cave. Unfortunately though, the roof isn't very thick and a lot of heat from the fire escapes through it. So I'm trying to do something about it.

I fixed the door problem, by having 2 doors. It's quite ingenious really, because you only open one door at a time so the wind doesn't whistle into the cave. And there's room to stand in between the 2 doors in the dry, while you put your welly boots on.

Ally

Eljay,
I don't listen to the radio, or read the national papers, and I never watch the news on telly, so I do miss out on quite a bit. But I do like living in my cave.

Ally

Trencher,
See who's ghost?

Ally