Easy Sudoku for 17/April/2016

Good morning all

Hope you slept well Hal, cant stay, time for morning tea (at midnight!). Its what happens when you work night shifts.

I gained five pounds yesterday!!
Hard to walk to my computer to say 'Hello'.

I'll bet there's more to that statement, Wolf.

Good morning Hal, Lizzy, Wolf and those who follow later. Our 2nd marvelous sunny day, with the promise of more to follow; eventually maybe there will be a warming trend too!

Here in my bit of Aus, we are still getting lovely sunny days, just a bit crispy in the mornings, guess Autumn/Fall will get here eventually

Good morning.

Hi gang!

Nothing to say at this moment, co I'll toddle along.

Yes I did eat far too much yesterday. I won't go into it in detail but it did all taste good and my cardiologist had given me a diet: 'If it tastes good, spit it out'. Maybe next time I'll listen.
BTW: I already lost half of it in the last hour.

Well I have had two lots of sleep before waking up coughing. I wish I could sleep in the recliner but I need something more up right.

TMI, Wolf!!!

everyone!!!

I dedicate this post to Queen Anne!

Morning.

Lovely colourful photo of Mardi Gras.

thought we would be over the page by now..........still got quite a way to go to even Keiths special spot......

all!

Wolf, sorry to hear about your extra 5 lbs. I burned 2000 calories yesterday...that's the last time I leave brownies in the oven while I nap!

Guess all of you are awake on this side of the planet...good afternoon ! Some day I hope to make it to Louisianne...so colourful!
Sleep well in Australia, too early to get up yet! Sweet dreams and a happy day for the rest of you!

Morning all, they are colourful and look to be having fun.

Cake Lady, that is one way to burn calories !😄👍

You there Keith ?

Nope, he is missing in action.

A CP and I'm gone.

Good maEn, good people. Suddenly summer here in SW Michigan, USA. Glorious. I fixed the screen door and breathed outside air all day!

1:55 Good Sunday morning one and all!

We had great weather today, just perfect, but unfortunately it comes with tons of pollen, so windows closed here.

Happy Saturday!
Almost midnight, PDT, and still on page 1?!

Very slow day here.

I'm back from my travels over the last couple of days. On Friday we drove to Wallerawang, NSW, so we could go to Ironfest at Lithgow yesterday. We stayed at Bathurst last night and drove back via Canowindra, Cowra today and only arrived back a couple of hours ago. It's good to be back home!

Anyway, 1:40 for the puzzle tonight.

For the benefit of our overseas friends and Aussies from interstate Wallerawang is pronounced:
Wal (as in wallaby) air a wang and Canowindra as Can now n dra.....We'll make Aussies of you yet.

Now for some useless information..........

Only a Navigator would think of such things.

The passenger steamer SS Warrimoo was quietly knifing its way through the waters of the mid-Pacific on its way from Vancouver to Australia. The navigator had just finished working out a star fix and brought the master, Captain John Phillips, the result. The Warrimoo’s position was latitude 0 degrees x 31 minutes north and longitude 179 degrees x 30 minutes west. The date was 30 December 1899. “Know what this means?” First Mate Payton broke in, “we’re only a few miles from the intersection of the Equator and the International Date Line”.

Captain Phillips was prankish enough to take full advantage of the opportunity for achieving the navigational freak of a lifetime. He called his navigators to the bridge to check and double check the ships position. He changed course slightly so as to bear directly on his mark. Then he adjusted the engine speed. The calm weather and clear night worked in his favour. At midnight the “Warrimoo” lay on the Equator at exactly the point where it crossed the International Date Line!

The consequences of this bizarre position were many. The forward part of the ship was in the Southern Hemisphere and the middle of summer. The stern was in the Northern Hemisphere and in the middle of winter. The date in the aft part of the ship was 30 December 1899. Forward it was 1 January 1900. This ship was therefore not only in two different days, two different months, two different seasons and two different years but in two different centuries-all at the same time.

Very interesting reading, thanks Peter.