humans and snails and TBT links

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:rA1a3s3wWRcJ:www.oregon.gov/DHS/ph/dwp/docs/fact/tbt.pdf+effect+of+TBT+on+humans%3F&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjAi1xybqY8KBjIOFZhgLmmRlk0nF-0hGY4anaEvHEdnLPafRjW-FFgOKlCpun6f_2oWYVTJYkuQ_VmubqJXK4uFWJV--llgsQ_-Qn6u4e4nwtpeWvgcn6fn9FY_7NBNXUIKPnx&sig=AHIEtbSnpBoX8jDY--Iw3M9TVfI2qkWp3w
    Spring seems to be the season for garden snails with many sightings on windows and paths.  So I researched them on the net and discovered the TBT information and interesting marine mollusc contamination links.
http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20101309-21316.html

Australians buying overseas

The current value of the Australian dollar  makes Australian real estate  overpriced and overdue for correction.         Time for Australians to buy into the UK market. There are plenty of bargains especially in high demand better parts of residential London.          Anyone keeping up with prices in both countries can observe this.                For example, UK media reports stated that Tony and Cherie Blair recently bought one of their offspring a substantial London house in a good area for one and a half million pounds.     While a recent Australian guide listed a pretty crumby house several streets back from the beach in a coastal NSW suburb at 3 million AUD.        Given that London residential is some of the most sought after, in demand real estate on the planet whilst Australia is quite far away from the action, the point is clear.                  Australian real estate is rather overpriced. Dont buy it right now unless you absolutely must.                          Another factor is Australian interest rates. These should rise soon if the Australian economy is to maintain buoyancy long term. So Australian house prices would then drop.
 * follow this advise at your own risk. It is only unqualified opinion.
 

So you wish to live in London?

The fantastic London home of well loved celebrities Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson is now, it seems, actually for sale, as they are relocating (not to Tasmania unfortunately as they would have been incredibly welcome and have adored it,)  to Chelsea near his gallery.                  So, the price is only 37 million stirling and if I had that I would snap it up as it compares very favourably with others similar.       Unfortunately I cant even scrape up the million I need to establish my Art Gallery project in Tasmania though, so I wont be buying the lovely Saatchi home - dam!  Nonetheless, whoever does buy it will be well pleased I'm sure and if you heard of it from my website feel free to shop in my art gallery for paintings for your interior decorating scheme.        http://konstsian.blogspot.com/

 

scaffolding celebrity saga sympathy

Art world celebrity impresario and wonderful human being, Charles Saatchi has reportedly been disrupted in his work at the beautiful home in London he and Nigella Lawson domestic goddess dwell in and snatches of the lovely interior of which are seen in Nigella Express and other great cooking lifestyle DVDs.           Charles's life has been disrupted by building work at an adjoining house and scaffolding obstructing his windows.             Sounds like hell, and from what people are saying on websites, others share the distress of noisy, dusty, disruptive building work at all hours in residential London.
 Building work really should be arranged when those affected are out of town obviously.               It goes without saying that structural damage caused by building such as excavating, which has caused a London road collapse incident, should be anticipated and prevented from happening.
  Artists in the UK are very fortunate they've got Charles Saatchi to buy their work.                    If Charles and Nigella ever wish to buy a nice place or abstract paintings -http://konstsian.blogspot.com/ -
in Tasmania they should contact me.     Things can be expensive in Tasmania but very worth it and less scaffolding!           Disputes of all kinds are probably likely to decrease as the ratio of trees to humans increases which could also be a possible factor in London disputes over building noise and obstructions such as scaffolding getting in people's faces all over the city to the detriment of cultural life and daily existence.
 Such situations really are not fair and should not be allowed to develop.
More trees less scaffolding is an answer.      

multipedes

Multiipedes love Tasmania's north east coast which is not a problem as they are part of the ecosystem and feed on silverfish and slaters. So they keep pests under biological control.            Centipedes and millipedes, are however, not nice to make personal contact with, so I usually pick them up with a bit of torn off newspaper, squash them,(not easy as they curl into a defensive spiral and are quite brittle), and throw in the bin.   
 Trying to eradicate them from the human domain is pointless as they will return anyway. They love it if you are sited down from a watercourse and there is mulch around the dwelling.                        Apparently they are most active in Autumn and hibernate in nests at other times.    I have never known them to be completely out of sight except during short periods of cold weather during Winter, but there are usually at least a few sighted every week or day during warmer and or wetter weather.                    Today, for example, I have already disposed of 2.     They range from very tiny to 3 or 4 cm as they can be up to 5 years old.            I feel comfortable about killing multipedes as I believe they have no developed nervous system enough to feel pain and also as I do not use chemicals or pesticides.       Also, plenty remain to continue their ecosystem function controlling insects, as I already mentioned.                              My multipedes could be either Tasmanian natives or Portuguese introduced, so are likely harmless to humans.           If they were South American(which they are not), they might be a type that squirt poison and are harmful to humans.
 Of course, it is everyone's nightmare that they would crawl up your nose while you are sleeping and they can rear up to climb off the ground, so keep bed linen above ground level by longer than maximum multipede length.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millipede