Rosliston Forestry Centre

I have been asked to take & send pictures to the centre. I have used Google+ as my chosen destination. I noticed it is underused. A pity really, I know they use Facebook, in my opinion, it is somewhat cluttered the last time I looked. I have had some very good feedback from Debbie, one of the directors of the centre. You can find more images of the centre by a google search other pic's other than my own.
If you have not visited the place, it is well worth a visit. Try the Bulls Head in the village, great food is served there.

Kids on Angels

Kids On Angels

I only know the names of two angels,
Hark and Harold.

Gregory, age 5

It's not easy to become an angel! First, you die.
Then you go to Heaven, and then there's still
the flight training to go through. And then you
got to agree to wear those angel clothes.

Matthew, age 9

My guardian angel helps me with math,
but he's not much good for science.

Henry, age 8

Angels don't eat, but they drink
milk from Holy Cows!!!

Jack, age 6



When an angel gets mad, he takes a deep breath
and counts to ten. And when he lets out
his breath again, somewhere there's a tornado.

Reagan, age 10

Angels live in cloud houses made by God and his
son, who's a very good carpenter.

Jared, age 8



Some of the angels are in charge of helping heal
sick animals and pets. And if they don't make
the animals get better, they help the child get over it.

Vicki, age 8

What I don't get about angels is why, when someone
is in love, they shoot arrows at them!

Sarah, age 7

****** FROM ROLLS-ROYCE STAFF MAGAZINE ******

I had this come though an email this morning. A good start to the day I think 

Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!! (true story)..


Scientists at Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windscreens of airliners and military jets all travelling at maximum velocity.


The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windscreens.

American engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windscreens of their new high speed trains.


Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the American engineers.

When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked, as the chicken hurled out of the barrel crashed into the shatterproof screen, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineer's back-rest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin like an arrow shot from a bow..

The horrified Americans sent Rolls Royce the disastrous results of their experiment, along with the designs of the new train's windscreen, and begged the British scientists for suggestions.




Rolls Royce scientists responded with a one-line memo:

"Defrost the chicken."

NICE are not nice

Golden age of prostate cancer drug discovery and development as NICE draft guidance recommends new prostate cancer drug

"Responding to new NICE draft guidance recommending enzalutamide as an option for treating hormone relapsed metastatic prostate cancer in adults:

Professor Alan Ashworth, Chief Executive of The Institute of Cancer Research, London, said:

“Advanced prostate cancer is very difficult to treat, and it’s taken a coordinated effort to finally bring new drugs into the pipeline, after decades where there were no options once old-style hormone treatment stopped working.

“What we’re seeing now is an unprecedented period of success for prostate cancer research, with four new drugs shown to extend life in major clinical trials in just two years, and several others showing promise. It truly is a golden age for prostate cancer drug discovery and development.”

http://dynamic.icr.ac.uk/press/press_archive/press_releases_2013/24086.shtml

Followed on by.......

NICE has let us down again.

In England if a patient has previously been prescribed abiraterone they will not be allowed to have enzalutamide yet in Scotland these rules do not apply.

Doctors in Scotland can prescribe enzalutamide regardless. This is grossly unfair and is clearly based on cost factors rather than considering the benefits to cancer sufferers.

I have to admit an interest in all this. I am currently taking abiraterone which no longer works and my oncologist would switch me to enzalutamide if allowed but Northern Ireland slavishly follows England.

We can still change NICE's advice – as with abiraterone – by signing one of the many petitions eg https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/nice-licence-enzalutamide-for-all-prostate-cancer-sufferers-not-just-those-in-scotland/sponsors/new or Prostate Cancer UK's at http://prostatecanceruk.org/get-involved/campaign/our-campaigns/access-to-new-medicines/enzalutamide

And they have the gaul to still call it "The United Kingdom"