Extremely sad news.
I hope you have a good network of family and friends giving you shoulders and support. I know you've got these guys. Sincere condolences.
Thanks Winch, but I'm well aware of the difference. ..and I think you'll find that was implying that vegetarians were smarter, the inferring was conducted by the researchers...
The plan is (evidently) to use the revenue to establish the UK as a world leader in "Green Fuel" technology, so in a decade or two's time we have a product/area that is valuable to the planet and will keep us lving to the standard we have become accustomed. As a "service" country we are dead in the water with current global trends, as we are as a "manufacturing" country. We simply can't compete. The idea of saving the planet AND using the revenue to create a future worthwhile market is actually not such a bad one on reflection.
As far as I know, Basque is the oldest spoken language in Europe - actually pre-dating (and unrelated to) Indo-European languages.
Seems Lissa (and Ian-Jane) are right after a quick google. Well that's learned me something....
...a celebrity?
...And I was joking about stabbing the dog before anyone calls the RSPCA... ;)
I'd take a stab at the dog...
If memory serves it was "Funky Gibbon" by the Goodies....
... and I'm guessing he didn't say "Elementary my dear Watson" either...
(not a lot of people know that ;) )
...surely that's an invitation for smutty innuendo? :twisted:
Too late, de_sade in there like a sniper!
To correct your book (using the same argument you gave against Bangkok), Krung Thep is in fact not the capital. The longer name I posted previously (shortened to Krung Thep by locals) is.
It translates as something like:
The city of angels, the great city, the residence of the Emerald Buddha, the impregnable city (of Ayutthaya) of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarn.
Krung Thep.
(Or, to give it it's full title: Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit).
...(that's Bangkok to you and me)...