Sheppey bridge pile up

Drivers Disregarding Road Conditions

The crash on the Sheppey Bridge, once again showed the carnage that can be created by drivers going too fast in adverse road conditions. One of the witnesses said visibility was down to about 10 -20 yards yet many drivers were driving without lights, and no doubt they were driving too fast for the road conditions. On the motorway I am always surprised how many people (my husband included) disregard the stopping distances required for safety. People tend to think it will never happen to them, the trouble is that when it does it affects many more lives than their own. This time it was lucky no one was killed, but such luck in crashes like that is a rare occurrence.

The operation

All trussed up like a turkey

Went to get the varicose veins in my legs done, since I had my right leg done a month ago under local anaesthetic it was an in and out job. Thought this would be the same, though I knew I had more vv,s on this leg. It was nothing of the sort I was knocked out, and then had to spend most of what seemed to be the last day of summer lying in a hospital bed looking out at the beautiful sunshine, then having the weather forecaster tell me this is probably the last of this and weather warnings from tomorrow. Well  just my luck, now I am going to try and get some sleep though sleeping with compression bandages are going to take some doing

car parts melted by a scyscraper

A believe it or not story

Sounds like something from sci fi doesn't it? but it happens to be true, and it is not the first time this sort of thing has happened, reflections from  the Walkie Talkie Building in London melted plastic parts of a jaguar.

According to experts it is due to the curved windows in the building, sunlight bounces off them and converges at one point, so concentrating the light at that point.

Thing is it is not the first time such an incident has happened, so why haven't architects learned this lesson?