What bemused you today?

[Oldboy]

Must admit it was a couple of weeks ago when it bemused me, so I stopped to take a picture.


Suburban Red by abers, on Flickr

Perhaps some folk hoped the Olympians passing by would slow down (while they had a comfortable viewing) or stop for an impromptu interview 

More likely, so far so good! 

[spinner]

The old, bad things come in 3's. For me, it's been computers. I was trying to salvage an old PC that was my sons, for the 2nd time in 6 months it's reported bad memory, methinks it's the board now. Strippin it for parts. The Hackintosh I was playing around with has somehow wiped the boot sectors on two drives that had working OS's on them (guess I played past it's abilities) and just this morning I fried the power supply on my daughters PC trying to run diagnostics on it. Pulled it out of the enclosure and discovered every air hole was clogged shut with dust. When I opened it up I discovered the heat sink and all the interior fans also clogged with dust.

[ABERS]

More at a loss than bemused. How to fill in those hours empty of excitement and pleasure between the Olympics and the Paralympics.

Perhaps I should go out with the camera! Mind you a little voice from the kitchen keeps reminding me the garden could do with a bit of a tidy up, and the car's in a terrible state

[donoreo]

More at a loss than bemused. How to fill in those hours empty of excitement and pleasure between the Olympics and the Paralympics.

Perhaps I should go out with the camera! Mind you a little voice from the kitchen keeps reminding me the garden could do with a bit of a tidy up, and the car's in a terrible state

Resist!  Resist that voice! 
Yesterday I was not at work, my last day of vacation.  I did not know what to do with myself.  The girls were back to school/daycare so I did not have them to help.   I was struggling between going out for a nice long photo session, riding my bike (taking my camera with me) or doing nothing.   

This morning it is back to work since I checked my lottery tickets and I did not win. 

[Beaux Reflets]

Seeing this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19261655 What is it with some folk    Seems  thoughtless when some dear soul may be struggling to stay alive!! And I thought there were Laws against using mobile phones while driving 

[Jonathan]

And here's a story from the BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-19267414

Fill out the form at the bottom if you have mobile phone pics or video of the crash.  Hypocrisy much?

[Oldboy]

This : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2190033/Incredible-shot-US-swimmer-perfectly-shows-phenomenon-surface-tension.html   

[ABERS]

WBMT

Reading that the bottom 40% of the population owns just 0.3% of the wealth of the USA.

The top 20% own 84% of the wealth  

Government of the people, by the people for the people!  Well 20% of them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19284017

[Markulous]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7:84

[jinky]

Last week I bought two narrow 3m long plastic plumbing pipes to hold my DIY backdrops on to save getting them creased up in a cupboard. Got them at a B&Q in south Leeds - main branch. Asked if they could cut them to 2.5m to fit in the car and be right length and the guy kindly did it in the timber cut section with a handsaw. 5 seconds, grateful customer.

Decided I`d get a 3rd one but went to another B&Q. Same request met with - "We cannot do that the saw is for timber only". Yes I said but at the other B&Q they just used a handsaw - 5 seconds". That`s against H&S rules he says. I complain and whine for a while then he just walks off deciding he has heard enough about inconsistent policy. So pissed off am I with his attitude I talk to a girl on customer service who had a face like a slapped arse before I even got there. he should do it she says and walks off - never to be seen again and me thinking she`s gone to sort it. I push a buzzer , wait 10 minutes and then give up. Back home I write a stroppy email to B&Q hqtrs bemoaning poor service and inconsistencies and today I get this:
Thank you for your e-mail.



Please accept our sincere apologies for the difficulties that you haveexperienced. 

It is B&Q company policy that staff should not cut materials with ahandsaw because of Health and Safety laws.   

Could you please supply the names of the staff at both stores so thatthe appropriate action can be taken by the Store Manager.   

Should you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contactus again.

My reply expresses incredulity that the biggest DIY chain in the country is not able to train an operative to handcut a plastic pipe in 5 seconds to meet a customer need and no I did not give names to get the sensible guy in trouble who helps rather than abuses customers. Unbelievable!

[Oldboy]

If health and safety had been around at the start of the industrial revolution it wouldn't have happen! 

[spinner]

Did visit to the Royal Botannical Gardens here in beautiful Southern Ontario. My son's down visiting from Ottawa and came with. My membership lets me bring in a guest. Spent about 2 and half hours wandering their Rock Garden section took about a hundred photos.
What bemused me? Probably the best shots I got of the whole day were in the little side garden that bordered the car park on my way back to my vehicle. 

[donoreo]

We visited the RBG in the spring.   It was before things were in bloom, but the girls enjoyed it. 

[spinner]

We visited the RBG in the spring.   It was before things were in bloom, but the girls enjoyed it.

I have a membership, so I try to get down 3 or 4 times a year, but the heat and humidity kept me home most of the summer. I did venture down in early July but the heat had killed off the Iris (which is what I'd gone to see) and the Roses weren't out yet.

[michaelb104]

More amused than bemused - Sat outside having breakfast yesterday morning (how posh does that sound, in reality I'd just washed the car and was not allowed in the house in my dirty clothes) anyway as I'm tucking into my muesli a hedgehog just wanders up very close (touching distance) has a sniff around and then troupes off into the flower bed.  It spent the next 30 minutes(ish) just wandering around and then disappears at the bottom of the garden.

I know it shouldn't be out and about in the day time but he/she looked fine and there isn't a lack of food in the garden, you should see the amount of slugs and snails!!

Yep, I should have got some photos  -  see dirty clothes / house!!