Wilko's Weekly Waffle .................

Well that’s a third of the year gone! But gone where? Is it just me or did the last four months really go wherever at the same rate as previous third of years? Definitely only seems like weeks ago we were seeing in the new year.

Certain Wilko News staff members are back, fleetingly, in the UK as they brush off the Madeiran sand and prepare excitedly for the Croatian coast. Obviously good luck to them in the next chapter of their 'rock n roll' adventures. 

There may be a few of you, newer readers that are just a little confused right now! 

Wilko News started as a hard copy monthly ‘family’ newsletter. A somewhat old fashioned way of keeping family members in touch with what was going on with each other!! With the growth of the internet and other forms of communication, the hard copy disappeared and Wilko News was born on Blogger. The style of reporting has always been ‘somewhat secretive’ never referring directly to people with their names, so I was always Wilkoman and became EBEZP on Wilko News. Family were always referred to by nicknames and as ‘staff members’.

Other blogs developed and some disappeared until now we are left with this, that started in 2011 -  Wilko News Two. Now the Weekly Waffle is fairly close to the old format of the original so I still refer to family as staff members!

So don’t forget you can always have a little explore round this blog by the side bar. Over >>>>>> there somewhere or at the bottom of this page by clicking ‘Home’ or ‘Older Posts’ you can go back…… way back!! Also on the side bar you can get to my two photo blogs or even back to Facebook! 

   

So the website that gets some mileage from me this week – there is a pun hidden in there too – is this one, travelmath.com, just click through and you can have fun too!! 

Like for example how many miles is it from ? to ? and how long would it take to fly and why is the mileage different if you go by train….. trust me it is good fun!!

The other one that also had some mileage put on it this week is the ever popular Flight Radar 24 and if you’ve never been on that, click and be amazed. 

Every yellow ‘plane’ you see on a global scale represents an aircraft that is flying! In real time! Stand by to be astounded at how many there are! Choose somewhere near one of the world’s largest airports and see how many you can count!! Yes there are thousands aren’t there?!! Oh and plus there’s the facility to go ‘up with the pilot’, no really!! So next time anyone you know is flying , almost anywhere in the world, this is definitely the site for you.

You may already know I am a huge fan of a programme called ‘The Amazing Race’ but over the last two episodes it has become a real pain in the neck!! Let me explain…. CBS go to great lengths to ensure that people outside of the North American continent can not see it. I won’t bore you with the lengths that people go to so they can get to see it, nor with the detail of how people from the far flung corners of the world upload it to you tube. I know that for the moment I am incredibly grateful to a Russian person, gender unknown, who is now the only one remaining in this series to upload it and not to be forced to change their user name and all the other things to avoid the so called copywrite infringements imposed by CBS. However two weeks now #8 and 9 have been uploaded on to youtube, sideways on! Now this may be fine with certain tablets and the like but on an old lap top with the power cable in almost permanently and nearly always at least one hard drive connected at the side this just leads to getting a pain in the neck!! It’s not that I’m not appreciative or anything though!! 

Hopefully this isn't sideways but it is my Picture of the week on my Pixel Rainbow blog!