Depending upon how you say the title, it could almost be the start if a music hall joke, except I've been essaying an essay essay as an essay all day. If that doesn't make sense, neither does most of what I wrote. An essay can be an attempt, a piece of written work shorter than a treatise, a first draft, a trial or an experiment; according to Chamber's.
I am up to my eyeballs pollution in China, for lots of Chinese it goes over their heads. I have a few more days to resolve my dilemma of the essay, not just the exact meaning of the word but a piece of written work. It just so happened my new microscope arrived today, so be prepared to be astonished, that I only checked it was all okay, rather than trying to stick Whizz under it to see what makes her tick. It's what I knew as a dissecting microscope, but these days they call a stereomicroscope because it enables you to see things in three dimensional views unlike compound microscopes which only operate in two. I can see things at magnifications of x10 or x20, which will probably be enough to look at bits of mammal skeletons from owl pellets, which is one of the main things I shall be doing with it.
I don't honestly know if I have the energy to scribble Bike tonight, and I'm out on wednesday to a public meeting on bTB and badger culls in darkest West Darzit, so Bike is likely to be intermittent for the next several days.
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Enjoy your new optics......
Ahhhh, the memories of using a stereo microscope while trying to hold my breath against the stench of death or formaldehyde from whatever I was dissecting under the microscope.
I look forward to seeing your posts and will miss them, but as we all know reality has an unhelpful way of intruding on our time. Relax, and do what you need to do. We'll be here waiting when you return.
D
D. Eden
“Hier stehe ich; ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir.”
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus
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A new toy!
Glad it arrived okay and in one piece!
Just remember that the Chinese have been exporting their rubbish around the world for years so we're all to blame!
Ttfn
Frustrated of Sheffield
Madeline Anafrid Bell
Owl poop in 3 dimensions. As
Owl poop in 3 dimensions. As we get older, isn't it amazing what gets us excited these days Ang?
Love the microscope, When I used to help the Vet and my horse trainer with breeding, we used one like that for checking the motility of the stallions uh, stuff.
You deserve a break, Bike has been posted almost every day lately.
Karen
San Antonio, abbreviated, smells foul. ?? (read on)
As I assay your essay (easy), I say: S.A. is assy.
Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
-Thomas Shadwell
I'll bet 'Darzit'
has confused a few readers from the Lefthand side of the Pond.
I wonder how many went looking (or googling) for 'Darzit'?
ROFL... Brightened up a dull grey morning no end.
Well done. Perhaps they can come and cull the Foxes that insist on trashing my veggie beds almost every night? (only joking but it is getting a real PITA)
Samantha
Foxes
Are just misunderstood!
Now the flippin' flying rats outside my window - please someone come and cull dem!
Madeline Anafrid Bell
Pollution in China ...
... probably goes over the heads of most Chinese because, as everybody knows, they're not very tall :) Actually, Chinese pollution is our pollution because we exported it as we imported the material things that generate it.
I've just added a little electric help to my beloved's bicycle. It was sourced from a British company (Southampton via Stoke-on-Trent) but in reality the brushless motor, Li-ion battery and the speed controller etc, were manufactured in China. So we're saving the planet in England by not using our car by increasing pollution in China.
Good luck with your binocular microscope and your essay at an essay.
Robi