Holiday Greetings from Charlotte, North Carolina

For all you dudes and dudettes:
Peace and goodwill toward men

http://www.h2omarkdesign.com/stapleton_christmas2005.pdf

 

Merry Xmas to you and your family Sporkman, I look forward to your
postings in the new year.

And a Merry Xmas to everyone else who contributes here.

John Layne
www.solidengineering.co.nz (click the link if you like Dean Martin and
have broadband)

 

Merry Christmas.

 

Thanks Spork,

Merry Christmas to you and yours!
And Merry Christmas to all other news groupers as well.

Muggs

 

Merry Xmas to you all


No pictures of Snow Sporky?

Its still mild here in Cornwall - took this pic a couple of weeks ago

http://www.badongo.com/pic.php?file...+Cornwall+-+Dec+2005__2005-12-20_CIMG1711.JPG

Large file 1.8mb


TTFN

Jonathan

 

Jonathan,

Is that a palm tree in England?

 

Beautiful pic . . . but a PALM tree?

 

Paul & Sporky

Of course its a palm tree The Gulf Stream is the equivalent of
1,000,000 nuclear power stations (if I remember my geography lessons)
so we have a very mild climate here, even though Britain is
approximately the same latitude as Hudson Bay !! Slide us around the
globe and that is where we neatly fit in.

Some parts of the West Coast of Scotland also get the tail end of the
Gulf Stream and they also have palms and banana trees.

I even have a a couple of Banana trees dotted about but its not warm
enough in the summer for actual bannanas !! Plus I cheated a bit and
selected a variaty from the Himalayas, but people grow other stuff

http://www.trebahgarden.co.uk/ This is close by and so was
Trevanson House where I took that pic.

http://www.tresco.co.uk/the_abbey_garden/plants.asp
These islands are the extreme end of Cornwall and show the power of
the Gulf stream.

Unfortunately oceanographers predict that global warming will have an
opposite effect on the British Isles. As the caps melt, the cold
fresh water will tend to push the current further south and may even
turn it off completely - then we will be in woolly mammoth territory
..


In the summer
http://www.badongo.com/pic.php?file=St+Ives+2005__2005-12-21_CIMG1310.JPG

at St Ives, Carbis Bay - Its a prison, as the water is still cold
and I don't have the physique to wear a wet suit ! and now we
have sharks off shore !! Panic !! this year was the first sighting
of Mako and last year a couple of Great White along with the usual
basking sharks and dolphins. We even occasionally get the odd
Turtle washed ashore and if its alive, they put it on a plane asap and
take it south.



Any way the start of the day


TTFN


Jonathan

 

Merry Christmas, to all! (Or chappy Chanukah, or a pleasant whatever holiday
floats your boat.)

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"

 

Hey, I'm finally out of here for the year! Merry Christmas to all, and I'll
be back next year.

WT

 

Joyeux Noel to North Carolina (special thoughts there) and to the whole
world. Peace on all of us.

JM