David Jeanneret

I’d heard of this search engine from a freind, and then I found out that the people that run the website are friends in Bristol!

So I joined up to see if I’d win anything - and I haven’t yet but I’ll keep trying. The person that I heard about had one a number of vouchers through using WabbaDabba as their search engine - so maybe we shall.

Anway join through clicking the button above and if you win something, I’ll get the same thing too! It’s got to be worth a try!

Basicaly I search for something on WabbaDabba and if that doesn’t throw up the right result I turn to Google.

Peace to you all!

We got a combi boiler when we moved in and didn’t realy think much about it.

Now we’ve been wondering about solar heating and thinking: “can’t do much about it because we don’t have a hot water tank”

But I’ve just found that ferroli have a system to allow a combi boiler to simply top up the heat on some solar heated water.

Presumably that can be retrofitted.

I shall investigate.

Edit: Ahh - they’ve said that it can’t be fitted on my boiler because my boiler can’t sense the input temperature of the water in order to decide whether or not to fire up!

Navy used goats in submarine experiments

Read the article if you can be bothered but near the bottom I came across this and laughed out loud.

Goats had suffered brain damage and other “hideous effects”, said the trust’s Wendy Higgins. “It is regrettable but inevitable that warfare causes human suffering but it is totally unethical that we should add to this the unnecessary suffering of innocent animals,” she added.

I re-read it twice and I still only get the impression that Higgins’ statements imply a greater value on the life of ‘innocent animals’ than human suffering. That’s amazing (but in a bad way)!

Peace
(No goats were harmed in the writing of this blog post)

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I saw this news article and remembered again that this is an example of the real meaning of the “Do not take the Lord’s name in vain” commandment.

It’s not about hitting your thumb and saying “Oh Christ”.

It’s more about saying “God told me to blow up Iraq” or “God think’s it’s good that you’re dead” (because you’re fighting in the army of a country in which some people are allowed to live openly gay lives. I mean, talk about a spurious connection!).

Stupid, stupid, stupid so-called Christians [Edit: OK so perhaps that’s too strong. Maybe they’re not so much “stupid” as deluded and hugely insensitive in their protests and the methods of communicating their opinion about their country]. It annoys me that they’re called Christians and it annoys me that they’re called Baptists (even though they aren’t connected to any baptist organisations!) [Edit: so what really annoys me is that other people will see their actions and potentialy transfer a wrong understanding of Christianity and the baptist tradition on to me]

Bah

I also think the idea of bankrupting the church is a good one! Of course it won’t change the heart of the leader or it’s congregation.