Bonzo's boring rambling

I am going to bird more this year.

Yes, I am. I only recorded 182 species last year, and that is appalling

And what is worse, it is the best I have done for about 7 years.

I will work harder!

There seems to be a really serious bug becoming more and more prominant in search engines, both of the web-wide kind and the within-website kind: an inability to distinguish between similar terms, be they synonyms or homonyms, even when those terms are enclosed in inverted commas.

What is more they do not seem to give any preference to the search term given over a possible alternative, which is incredibly frustrating to the user. The thing most frustrating to me is an inability to distinguish between the search term "Season 3" of Dr Who and the search term "Series 3" of Dr Who (with inverted commas), which given that one relates to a televison series made in 1965 and the other to televison series made in 2007 is immensely frustrating. The first 70 hits for the former relate to the latter for me.

But now it has spread to retial websites too. The first 6 hits for the search term "whiskey" on a well-know supermarket's website deliver me scotch. Grrrrrr.......

What is the point of inverted commas in search engines if they don't appear to work properly? And how hard is this bug to fix????

I have just seen a clip of a film featuring Glenn Miller's band playing for a dance. The dancers were doing a very gentle quickstep.

Am I the only one who finds that so odd? To me I would always jive (or jitterbug) if In the Mood was played?

Oh no. Mock OFSTED next week at work.

*stress*

It seemed to me at the strt of the weekend that something seriously needed doing about this bit of garden:



Improvement made. Pity I can't get rid of the huge lump of concrete; spot its new hiding place...

Last sink full of washing up begun.

Last night seems to have unaccountably added four cocktail shakers and four cocktail glasses to the pile.

I clean and cook like crazy for 3 days before my aunt visits, and when she leaves 48 hours later every possible utensil is dirty and there is food everywhere.

There is also the usual logistical problem that in preparing the aforesaid food and cleaning the aforesaid house I used every single tea towel and cleaning cloth I possess. Since the process only ever ends shortly before her arrival, these were therefore in the washing machine on her arrival. They now need to be rinsed, but this cannot occur because if the washing machine spins it throws everything waiting to be washed up off the draining board. However, I cannot wash the items on the draining board because the tea towels which I need have to be rinsed by the washing machine first.

Finally got round to watching last Sunday's Dr Who. If you are coming down the A57 from Grindleford and want to pick up the A61 to Hillsborough, why would you take the road under the M1???

I guess it's physically possible, unlike cycling over Garrett Hostel bridge in 2 directions at once...

Turn left, she said.

So I turned left.

And so it took longer to return to my ship. I was only five minutes late back on duty. Only five minutes. Not a major problem, really. OK, if I had been on time we might have been able to tow the New York back into dock after its anchor cable snapped. Then it wouldn't have crashed into that bloody luxury liner (which was resposible for the whole thing anyway)

But it's not like it was important. The Titanic was repaired after minor damage, I've watched it cross the Atlantic 100 times.

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