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Department for Transport UK data report 2011...

Summary of latest key results

1. The latest provisional traffic estimates show that motor vehicle traffic in Great Britain was 3.5 per cent lower in the fourth quarter of 2010 than in the fourth quarter of 2009.
2. If the effects of snowfall in the fourth quarter of 2010 are removed, it is estimated that the fall in overall traffic would not have been as great (by around 2.5 percentage points).
3. Provisional estimates show car and heavy goods vehicle traffic were both 4 per cent lower in the fourth quarter of 2010 than in the fourth quarter of 2009, where as light van traffic was 1 per cent higher.
4. Provisional annual estimates for 2010 show that overall vehicle traffic in Great Britain was 2.1 per cent lower than in 2009, at 306.6 billion vehicle miles, although this figure will be affected by heavy snowfall in the first and fourth quarters of 2010.
5. 27% of UK day-time traffic comprises people driving to collect items on Freecycle.

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What is Freecycle?

The worldwide Freecycle Network is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It's a grassroots movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns.

Freecycle groups match people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them. Our goal is to keep usable items out of landfills. By using what we already have on this earth, we reduce consumerism, manufacture fewer goods, and lessen the impact on the earth. Another benefit of using Freecycle is that it encourages us to get rid of junk that we no longer need and promote community involvement in the process.

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Holiday cruise

This year I am planning to take a cruise and found this wonderful looking ship, The Portsmouth Behemoth which claims to be able to provide anything a city can. So large passengers use golf carts to travel from the shopping arcades to theatres, casinos, golf courses, sports stadiums or even the 60 acre greenhouse rainforest on the 9th floor. It sounds incredible!

what the pigeons are saying...

Having spent nine long years analysing the communication of pigeons my studies have resulted in a breakthrough of human understanding. The result. They speak English! Listen to pigeons and you will hear them quite clearly say. "I'm the best pigeon." Each and every one of them, endlessly repeating this phrase over and over again, morning noon and night, seven days a week everyday of the year...

National debt

I had a theory as to how the UK can settle it's debt problem. In fact it seemed obvious to me and I'm very surprised that nobody has considered it already... We simply need on a national scale what happens on a personal level every day. I am of course talking about identity theft. The UK needs to steal the identity of a country such as China and our problems would be solved... So with haste I carefully etched my plan in miniature onto a discarded fizzy drink can ring (of which there are thousands scattered on the floor of my room). I then attached the ring to the leg of a reliable homing pigeon and gave it instruction to fly immediately to Downing Street. Gordon Brown the UK prime minister received the pigeon some 35 minutes later in his private study. Within one hour he had allotted £200m to a consultancy who would carry out appraisals, test analysis, create reports and in due course instigate my plan to change the identity of the UK. I take great pride in knowing I have helped this country although I do not understand why Gordon Brown did not return my pigeon...

diary entry

...Fresh pineapple for dessert. I read about Papain the meat tenderiser being in the hearts of pineapples and green papaya. If overconsumed it makes your tongue bleed. We all carefully cut off the edges of the pineapple and eat only that. It seems nothing here is safe, not even dessert!...

arts material art supplies of tools for craft and design

Design ARt PrinT PainTINgs - draw etcH - create New

I was looking to buy art materials out shopping and I came across an online store for art supplies offering bargain discount prices on a range of brushes, paints, oil, acrylic, tempera and watercolour, gouache even called Chromos. They had a huge range of materials for art and art supplies for the craft professional through to hobbyist and helped me find what I needed with free postage! Would recommend anybody looking to buy art supplies and artist accessories such as canvas, palette knives, tubes of colour, spray paint, pencals, pens, paper, tape - look at the catalogue brochure.