Necknomination & swinging seat new location

Necknomination a great game or deadly?
Its common now to see reports of deaths attributed to the new craze .  Someone nominates "you" for a challenge to drink alcohol in a particular place dressed in a particular outfit.

You friends are along to video the event and then its posted online.  Once you complete your challenge you then nominate on the video a couple of your friends for their challenge.
Sounds like fun but there are always going to be casualties in something like this.  Sounds like a great way to thin out the gene pool to me! - - -

I quite like this story about "Why I dont tweet" by Adam Gopnick, Adam who? (writer for the New Yorker) He "loves his smartphone" and has a twitter account but doesn't tweet.

 The article is peppered with gems like "tweeting is like self advertising" "anyone marginally public tweets" "it is our desire to be in our time that moves us" and finally he admits defeat and go's away to tweet, "Nothing is real"
I have had a brief dalliance with tweeting and find it too intrusive, its as if you have to keep looking at it or you might "miss something".  I even added twitter to my website to upload weather reports through the day then removed it because "it was too intrusive on my time" Dont get me wrong I have a smart phone and more computers than you can shake a stick at but "Tweeting" nah!

Talk about wrong place wrong time for the huge rock hitting the French train in the Alps"

2 people are killed tragically but what are the odds of a rock falling down a hillside and actually hitting a moving train, mindblowing - - -





The enduring misery of the flooding in UK still has little light at the end of the tunnel

With the express telling us that "now thousands facing flood misery"
I did see somewhere that the bad weather is set to move "up north" towards the end of the month do at least the south will maybe get a chance to dry out.  I see also that there's a call for some of our "foreign aid" budget to be used "at home"  sounds OK to me! - - -






Closer to home.
With the prospect of a good day forecast yesterday we set forth in the sunshine to walk some way around the Ladybower Reservoir.

The weather had clouded over a little by the time we got there but the mirror view across the calm water just down from the visitor centre lets you see why the area is popular with walkers.

All the dams are of course brimming over and here the famous Derwent Reservoir dam wall is awash with the overspill. The left hand tower in the pic is a small museum dedicated to "The Dambusters"  of WWII fame.  They practised here before the raids because the dams look so much like the targets in the Ruhr.

So with the cloud thinning a little we stopped for a little lunch at Yorkshire Bridge Inn which is alongside the houses built for the occupants of the two villages, Ashopton and Derwent when their original hamlets were  drowned as the reservoir filled

Back home I continued tidying up the site of our recent site of our decking project which consisted of relaying the pathway up our path to the new area.  Just before the sun left the valley it appeared from behind the cloud cover and i managed to tempt Sally from in front of the fire to test drive the swinging seat in its new location

Result!
Enjoy the day
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