Stormy Weather

[marthe]

Thanks to MB members Anna and S_A, I'm ready to convert temperatures from F to C and now know how to get rid of moths using the stuff I've got growing in the garden...lavender and lemon balm! We get moths from time to time though our house is anything but modern and airtight. Blocks of cedar or cedar shavings also help keep the pesky critters at bay. I'm a great fan of lemon balm and lemon verbena (vervain) for making tisane. In early July, I collect linden (lime) flowers from nearby trees for making a fragrant, soothing, and sleep-inducing herb tea. The mild winter and plentiful spring rain we've had is sure to bring swarms of mosquitos this summer. I'm going to make an infuson of almond oil and lemon balm, calendula, and lavender as a bug preventative. If nothing else, it will smell heavenly and be soothing to the skin.

[BBMmk2]

I have become used to thew Centigrade measurement now. The only thing I cannot get used to, is the Metric Measurement of metres, kilometres and heaven knows what else! I watched a documentary of Nat Geographic Channel, yesterday, and they were talking about 300 metere waves! I guess thats a lot, but what's that in Imperial?

[mercia]

talkin g about 300 m,etere waves! I guesds thats a lotbut what's that in Imperial?

300 metres is approx 985 feet = 70 double-decker buses [on top of eachother]

blimey - is that what global warming is going to give us ?

[it wasn't 30 metre waves was it ?]

[BBMmk2]

No it's not! :) I was watching a documentary about apocolyptic asteroids. They were talking about the one that decimated the dinoasaurs, 65 milion years ago. They now think it happened 66 million years ago.

[ahinton]

I have become used to thew Centigrade measurement now. The only thing I cannot get used to, is the Metric Measurement of metres, kilometres and heaven knows what else! I watched a documentary of Nat Geographic Channel, yesterday, and they were talking about 300 metere waves! I guess thats a lot, but what's that in Imperial?

I'm still struggling to figure out Imperial measures - not to mention the bizarre reason why they retained the currency that they did in Britain for so long! We count in tens, our numbering system is in tens, but I still can't guarantee being able to remember how many quarts in a yard! I first attended school in Scotland and they taught us metric measurement before the other stuff, which made sense even though it turned out to be a good deal longer than the teachers seemed to think would be the case before metric measurement was to become the norm. Imperial measure (beside the fact that its very name is enough to make one turn the other cheek) is odd, inconsistent, antediluvian and hardly used any longer (apart from in US); the sooner it bits the dust and becomes a figment of history the better.

And whilst "centigrade" is indeed a description of a measure, it is not a measure in itself; temperature is calibrated in degrees Celsius, not "Centigrade"!

Where the Brits have made matters so unnecessarily difficult in the past has been in the unwelcome habit of encouraging conversion mindsets rather than sensibly ditching one set of measures for another far simpler one that is much more widely used; I recall the sheer nonsense that followed the transition to what was then called "decimal currency" and which gave rise to the all too often used phrase "what's that in the old money?".

980+-foot-high waves? Even certain posters on this forum surely couldn't make waves that big?!...

[ahinton]

300 metres is approx 985 feet = 70 double-decker buses [on top of eachother]

blimey - is that what global warming is going to give us ?

That would rather depend upon the kind of fuel on which the double decker buses run, would it not? That said, "there's 69 more on top" might at least make a refreshing change from "there'll be another one along in a minute"...

[BBMmk2]

Well with an asteroid that was as high as Mount Everest hitting this planet, and weighing aproximately a trilllion tons, I am sure that would be the height of the wave. Personally, with an impact of that size, i am surprised that the wave was'nt higher.

[cloughie]

I have become used to thew Centigrade measurement now. The only thing I cannot get used to, is the Metric Measurement of metres, kilometres and heaven knows what else! I watched a documentary of Nat Geographic Channel, yesterday, and they were talking about 300 metere waves! I guess thats a lot, but what's that in Imperial?

Why when they sell petrol by the litre, and our roadside signs are all in miles, is consumption measured in mpg? Mpl would give us a better measure of how much our motoring costs!

[cloughie]

300 metres is approx 985 feet = 70 double-decker buses [on top of eachother]

blimey - is that what global warming is going to give us ?

[it wasn't 30 metre waves was it ?]

What a silly analogy, down here you'd never see 70 double-decker buses, let alone on top of each other!

[mercia]

What a silly analogy

fair enough
how about 3940 Cornish pasties piled one on top of eachother @3" per pasty [unheated] ?

[BBMmk2]

It'sa lovely day down herer!! :)

[cloughie]

fair enough
how about 3940 Cornish pasties piled one on top of eachother @3" per pasty [unheated] ?

Heated no doubt there would be government claims it should be 20 percent higher!

[cloughie]

It'sa lovely day down herer!! :)

And here after last night's storm, kindly watered the garden and filled the water-butt.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Mpl would give us a better measure of how much our motoring costs!

Possibly why they don't do it this way?

[salymap]

Err back to moths - I have lemon balm in the garden but the lavender seems to have disappeared. How do I turn lemon balm into a moth deterrent - try to dry it in the sun, or what?