"Only Mad Dogs and Englishmen.....

Ooo! I'm excited about the National Geographic thing! I haven't watched the DVD yet...maybe tonight.

I think about the ozone days. cut your emissions.

WOW!
I need to find more out about this DNA thing.
My mom is a small part native american and my sister thinks she, herself is 1/4.
We laugh about it was my moms great great granny that was native.

And this mad desert woman goes out in the midday sun to get tomatoes...Ü

YIPPEE for your DNA test!!!

I find this so fascinating. I'm even having an extra test done on my results to get a little more information.

When you get your kit, there will be a fascinating CD included that will thrill you.

We suffer from a surfeit of information so we can't do anything without being aware of the consequences - because we have had unusually low rainfall I think twice before using a lot of water: I'm sure my grandmother didn't think twice before washing the sheets!

Noonday Sun, Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Odd that they should be placed together when noonday sunshine and England seem so unlikely a pairing. I've always thought Noel Coward must have been thinking of India and the old colonials - so what were the six books?

(An Artist had his 5 minutes of fame when he left a tap running intending to waste 15 million Litres of water, "not nearly as much th water companies" he said. Later his agent told him that his 'work' had been sold.
Mark (the artist) said, rather ataken back, what the tap?"
'No he didn't want any of the installation. He paid £1500 for The idea
Whilst esperately trying to contain my alledged 'anti-american sentiments' I have to say I wasn't surprised that an American paid for, purchased, an idea.

When I started to write the note above I went to Google to find out where that saying might have originated. They said it was from India, during colonial times. That would explain noontime sun, and Englishmen. I didn't recognize the Noel Coward connection. I had rather expected it to be Kipling.

What six books? Not great books, just an entertaining author that we both enjoy. Lillian Braun has written lots of books whose titles start, "The Cat Who....." The main character lives with two remarkable Siamese cats and they help him solve mysteries in their own way. I hope the books help my sister pass the two months of recovery from her knee replacement surgery.

Ahh it was the 'Colonials' it has a very witty tune Very fast and clipped as Coward was.

My thoughts and hopes are with your sister.

I was named after Kipling's novel 'Kim'

I saw you on Roadskoller and came to poke about. I hope you don't mind. I am curious about the DNA sample, when you say tribe do you mean Native American?

Glad to have you around! Your name was familiar as I've seen it on my daughter's account.

The National Geographic people are referring to tribes though only one "tribe" includes Native Americans. Their research says that during the ice age most of the people in mid-Africa died out from the drought there. Only one "tribe" survived and pushed north into Asia. From there, another tribe followed the land mass into Australia (the land mass was larger during the Ice Age.) This produced the Aborigines.

They're calling a "tribe" a group of people who all have the same DNA characteristics because an early leader had a glitch in his DNA and it was slightly different. Tribes went to upper Asia, Europe, Scandinavia and England, lower Asia. Because there was still a land mass between what is now Russia and Alaska, some migrated there and down the west coast and those were Native Americans.

I'm fascinated by it. The trace project I'm in is tracing Mitochondrial DNA--mother to daughter to daughter and on through all women. So what I find will also be true of Roadskoller and Cynnerth. Another project traces men through the Y chromosome. Each set of traces starts in middle Africa and spreads from there.

They sent me a CD, explaining everything. The results of the DNA sample should be back to me about the middle of September.

Kind of like Mitochondrial Eve? It sounds really interesting.