Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink

According to the experts we are rapidly heading towards a water drought. After two consecutive years of unusually low rainfall London, the south and south east are becoming quite heavily affected with low water levels in reservoirs and now according to the news this morning, parts of Yorkshire too.

The first you get to hear of it is when the press start to scream those ever immortal words, Hosepipe Ban, usually around the first or second of January. Britain wouldn’t be Britain if we didn’t have Easter Eggs on sale at Christmas, our daily fix of Countdown and the annual Hosepipe Ban by the water authorities. Now don’t get me wrong, water is a powerful commodity and something that every living creature on the planet needs to have so to preserve its reserves is quite rightly an important thing. But when we are literally surrounded by the stuff being based on this little biddly Island just off the coast of Europe, why on earth has no-one come up with a cost effective solution yet to purify sea water into drinking water?

Of course we as individuals can all do our little bit to help prevent water wastage such as water your plants with dirty dish water, turn off the tap when brushing your teeth or for the best fun of all, bathe with a friend, wayhey! I’m sure that there are plenty of other top tips and if anyone cares to share them on here then be my guest, but one thing that miffs me the most about the water companies and their message for us to do our bit is how much wastage is caused by their leaking pipes contained within our ancient underground network.

At the bottom of my road the pavement has been dug up for nearly three weeks due to such an incident. The tiny trickle of water that had made its way to the surface and gently down to the roadside has caused quite a lengthy “repair” operation – let alone what I also assume to be a costly repair bill. However, the boffins at Thames Water have come up with a clever little gizmo called the Leak Frog which they are saying is detecting where leaks are happening around the home and helping to point out where repairs may be necessary to an individual homeowner.

So far, of the 70,000 homes fitted with these devices, over 2100 have had repair work carried out which they say has saved around 10 million litres every day – or in other words, enough to fill up an Olympic sized swimming pool four times over. And that's a lot! For more information on the Leak Frog, click on this link http://www.thameswater.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/corp/hs.xsl/13995.htm

And finally, I always seem to be amazed or amused depending on your viewpoint how when natural spring water that is full of all the good things and none of the bad things taking thousands of years to develop will suddenly have a best before end date just two months after you have bought it.

It’s madness!

Wingwalker

Who killed Frank Foster? Part 2

Well. I didn’t see that one coming!

It was his mum, Anne (Gwen Taylor) she killed him. Phwoooaaarrr the story line got hotter last night as it was revealed that Frank Fosters own mother accidentally killed her son after finding out that he did in actual fact rape Carla Connor.

The revelation came after the funeral for Frank where Sally Webster went to pay Anne a visit at her home to see how she was. Sobbing in a back bedroom, Anne is found clutching a vital piece of evidence, a watch belonging to her late husband which Frank was wearing at the time of the rape. Delirious and overcome with grief, she spills all to Sally, but realising that she is now in the presence of a murderer Sally makes a run for it only to trip up on the landing and knocks herself out.

Instead of calling for an ambulance, Anne decides she has to get away, out of the country and fast! She throws everything into a couple of suitcases and is just about to walk out of the house when none other than Carla appears at the door wanting to know answers to questions about Frank and the business in the long running saga you can only get in soap land.

At first Anne tries to remain calm and takes Carla through to the kitchen but then Sally’s mobile rings as her former husband Kevin tried to contact her. Anne makes a futile attempt to try and answer it but is unable as the phone is locked. Realising that the phone has come out of Sally’s handbag Carla starts to search the house calling out for her but this makes Anne her flip her lid and she draws a kitchen knife on Carla blocking her way. Ooooo it gets better…

Now Carla is trapped and looking straight down the blade of a 12 inch carving knife. Anne is getting more and more distressed and I must say she played her part very very well. She starts to wave the knife around and relays to Carla that it was she who killed her son by accident as she grabbed the bottle of whiskey and struck him over the head with it just at the top of the stairs.

Meanwhile…

Kevin decides to go round to the house after finding out where Sally had gone to as it is unusual for her not to answer the phone. He arrives at the front porch and see’s through the window Anne trapping Carla with the knife. Quick as a flash he runs round to the garage where by sheer fluke it happens to not only be open but also has an inter connecting door to the house…..which is also open. He creeps inside and with the aid of Carla they both over power Anne who drops the knife and falls to the floor in a gibbering wreck. Carla calls for the police and an ambulance and as the credits roll you think to yourself, oh Kevin, you’re my hero…

Wingwalker.

Who Killed Frank Foster?

In the fictional town of Weatherfield supposedly located within the suburbs of Manchester, Coronation Street's resident bad boy Frank Foster, played by actor Andrew Lancel, has just been found murdered in his factory which he jointly owned with Carla Connor.

Frank has had a colourful and varied past. His exploits include alleged rape, extortion, playing the field and generally being all round Mr Nasty. The list of people who have a good motive for wanting to see Frank shift off this mortal coil seem to be ever growing. So lets have a look at the key suspects.

Carla Connor  - (Alison King)
Carla used to be engaged to Frank until the relationship broke down where she accused him of rape but at the trial he was found not guilty giving her an ideal motive. Since then he has tried to cheat her out of her share of the factory adding fuel to the fire. The murder weapon is a whisky bottle covered in Frank's blood and her fingerprints.

Peter Barlow - (Chris Gascoyne)
Peter recently left his wife and son for Carla after a short affair with her. He is a registered alcoholic who has fallen off the wagon and back hitting the booze hard again. On the night of the murder he gets blind drunk, shouting his mouth off against Frank and turns up the next morning with grazed knuckles, unknown blood on his shirt and severe memory loss. Unfortunately for him it is found that he bought the whisky on his credit card.

Sally Webster - (Sally Whittaker)
Recently jilted and embarrassed publically by Frank, we find Sally next to Frank at the foot of the stairs of the factory covered in blood.  We know that she went to confront him after hours but what happened next?

Kevin Webster - (Michael Le Vell)
Sally left husband Kevin of over 20 years due to his love child but he still has feelings for her and was angry about her relationships. He wants to win her affections once more......slightly odd way of showing it though.

Michelle Connor - (Kym Marsh)
So far Michelle has been very much in the background playing the supportive friend and manager of the factory. At the moment you see very little of her with just the occasional scene of her and Carla or the factory staff. We have just found out that she stole the contract that Frank used to deceive Carla into signing away her share of the factory to him as without the paperwork there is no deal.

In the classic whodunnit style the writers of this poular British TV soap that has now been running for over 50 years, have come up trumps yet again with a ratings winner pulling in over 8.5 million viewers on the night of Frank's death. The Police have certainly got their work cut out especially as at the end of tonights episode (March 12th) Peter has gone to them and supposedly handed himself in. It's too soon after the start of the investgation for it to be wrapped up and we the viewer just know that there is more yet to come. This jigsaw is not yet complete and I get the feeling that something quite significant is missing which will only be revealed when the time is right. My guess is that it will be none of the  above but is in actual fact the smooth talking fraudster Lewis (Nigel Havers) for reasons yet unknown. However, my dearly beloved disagrees with me and thinks that Rita's (Barbara Knox) new found happiness with Dennis Tanner (Philip Lowrie) is about to be shattered as you are never happy for long in soapland.

What do you think?

Wingwalker

What do you search for?

Here's a quick one for you...

You look for something on a search engine and it comes up with the results based on the keywords you have written. Then auto suggestion kicks in and you start to see things you didn't actually really want. Suppose you have just recently got engaged - the next thing you see are adverts for baby clothes, toys, prams and everything you can think of, rather than wedding rings, dresses, flowers and cakes etc.

You go out in your car and you rely on your satnav - or crapnav as some people I know call them. You enter the destination you want to go to and you are lucky if it takes you from A to B without going through Z, P, T, J and R first.

In the past you bought an automated telecommunicatatatron device - or telephone as it used to be called in the olden days to make a call and speak to one another. Then someone came up with the idea of sticking a camera on there.....a camera, who would have thought of that? Then came "Apps" and before you know it, BOOM, you buy a phone to listen the radio whilst playing Angry Birds. Making a call is now a secondary requirement.

At what point are we going to "like" something on Facebook before it comes back to you with suggestions of what else you may like. Some people like knitting whereas others like porn. However it may be a little while yet before we see pictures of scantily clad sexy people dressed in your favourite knitwear.

Hmmmmm...

Wingwalker.