Giant Phone

I noticed they installed some more 'BT Global' digital billboards. What's special is they're actually phones. They are advertising displays that use video screens but they also have a dial pad, microphone and speaker on the side to make a free call.  I tried it out and was able to call my mobile phone and hear my voice on my phone and I could also hear my voice on my the dial pad speaker. They installed one on Belmont Road near Uxbridge Station and I saw another one just outside High Wycombe Hospital. I thought it is a good idea because if someone is stranded and lost their possessions they can use the dial pad to get help. 

I also learnt that there is a London bus that uses a civil car park to turn around, the 331 from Uxbridge to Ruislip. When the 331 bus gets to Northwood station, the road is a dead-end and narrow so it needs to go into a car park at the end of the lane to turn around. I never saw a bus use a car park for cars to turn around before but I guess that is the only way they can keep the station bus stop open. 

What August 2026 Means to Me

August 2026 was very hot and dry, we had a series of heat waves and a prolonged drought that persisted until the last few days of the month. All the grass on the grass verges and in the parks were dead and dried up. The county resembled a dessert; there were a few wild fires in various places. 

I got to visit two places I haven't been to before, I went to the Twist museum in London and later I went to Ruislip Lido: pronounced "Ryslip Lee Dow". It is a lake that has sand added to one side of it to make it look like a cove but it isn't near the coast. There are two restaurants there by the water side and play areas. It costs nothing to enter the premises or to go on the beach. There is a miniature railway there that can take you from the entrance to the beach, they charge a small fee but you can walk across on the paths yourself if you wish. If you're a tourist to London, I recommend you visit that place because it is lovely. If you want to go there, just get off a train at 'Ruislip Manor' Station served by both the 'Metropolitan' and 'Piccadilly' lines and take a H13 bus from bus stop D on the high street. 

Towards the end of the month I learned that Dolly Parton passed away because she had terminal cancer, later I learnt that the British actor Tim curry also passed away. I don't know them personally so their death was mostly a reminder that we don't have long. Death is very unpredictable and it is almost impossible to know how many days of life I have left. A day or two after they died, there was a gigantic flash flood that swept through the centre of Nepal, I was later informed that it was caused by a large chunk of a glacier falling off the side of a mountain.

I don't know much, I can only make the most of every day until my time is up.  

Fake Beach

I went to Ruislip Lido for the first time the other day. It is a large lake with a lot of sand added at one end so it looks like a lagoon or a cove; its a very nice affect. If you're a tourist visiting London, it's worth visiting because it is free to enter the premises. 

To get there you just get off  at Ruislip Manor station served by both the Metropolitan and Piccadilly Line then walk up to Bus stop D for the H13 to Ruislip Lido, the bus terminates just outside the premises by Waters Edge Restaurant next to the lake. They have a mini train that will take to the other side where the synthetic/fake beach is or you can walk there on the woodland footpaths. 

I thought the terminal station by the beach is clever because it bends around to turn the train around so it doesn't need to reverse direction to go back. Here in England small talk is dead so it is sad I can't really talk about how cool I think that is. I would put the bend first then the station at the end of the bend and have it like that at both ends but it just looks cool to me the way it is.   

Butterfly Effect Story August

Everything is effected by small things: everything. Everything  is a chain reaction that started from something small. A tree stated out as a tiny seed that grew bigger every day. The earth itself started out a some grains of dust that stuck together and slowly accumulated more grains until it was big enough to attract bigger stones and more objects. I imagined a person was born because of something I did today. 

A guy decides to post a blog article about cactuses because he likes the way they spontaneously transform into a flowering body at seemingly random times and he thinks they look cool and you only need to water them once every 2 weeks. 

Someone thousands of miles away reads the post and buys a cactus for their window pane. Their cousin visits them and sees the cactus, they visit a website for advice on what cactuses are best for the home, on the website is an advert for a dating site. They sign up for the dating site and find a partner and eventually become committed to that person and have children. The children grow up and one of the children meets a guy that has invented a hover drive vehicle but he can't get it to work, the son of a cactus guy talks him into trying again, he gives it another go and the thing works and everyone can hover around at a very low cost. A chain reaction is created. 

One guy writes about Cactuses

He inspires someone to buy a Cactus,

They inspire their cousin to visit a cactus advice site and discover a dating site. 

The cousin finds a partner and they have children. 

One of the children talks an inventor into trying again. 

He invents a new type of hover vehicle. 

If the Blogger changed his mind and didn't write about buying a cactus then all the children of the stranger's cousin wouldn't be born and the hover vehicle doesn't get invented. 

Nepal Tibet Floods

It is the last week of August, I learnt that the centre of Nepal and southern Tibet were hit by a large flood.  

The valleys and marshlands that feed the Bhote Khoshi river received too much rain and the river surged violently and overflowed, all valleys connected to the river were effected in Tibet and Nepal. 

In Nepal it was particularly bad because the floods went across the whole country in fairly densely populated valleys. I hope they're ok and they recover quickly. I don't know how bad it is in Tibet because the news isn't showing much. Tim Curry and Dolly Parton died around the time when the floods were about to start so I will remember the Tibet Nepal Flood when I see media of their work. 

What can I do, I just keep my chin up and continue to do my hobbies. I create things and play computer games. 

Flash Flood

I learnt today that there was a flash flood in Napal yesterday in the mountain areas. It happened a day after Dolly Parton passed away. The whole river basin was devastated. I feel pity for them, it is very unlucky. 

All I can do is my hobbies and keep my mind clear. It didn't rain much in Britain this summer but it rained a lot today. 

I was wondering if the social media site called x will keep that name. I thought they could change their name to 'Post Xtra or something like that. The name x is confusing because it looks like to stop sign or do not enter. X doesn't mean anything and it usually means to close something. 

Dolly Parton Dies

I learnt last night on the 25th of August that the singer Dolly Parton died. The main effect it had on me is to remember that my life span is finite, I have a limited time to live. I don't even know if I will still be alive tomorrow because death is very unpredictable. I recall that she wanted to get people to read more, the more you read the happier you will be. There are so many wonderful books out there. I would always hear her songs on the radio, 'Joline', 'Islands in the stream' and 'I will always love you'. 

It made me feel better about playing with my new games console, the evercade alpha. I shouldn't feel guilty about playing computer games because life is very short. I do what I need to do then I have some leisure time. There are so many retro games for me to explore, all of them are little worlds with stories.