Archive for December, 2008
A sign we have become too soft
Dec 31st
A Dubai resort will soon see a “refrigerated beach” which will cool the sand so it doesn’t burn your tootsies. Yes, I am being serious.
A LUXURY hotel in Dubai is to create the first refrigerated beach so hotel guests can walk comfortably across the sand on scorching days.
The Palazzo Versace fashion house will have a network of pipes beneath the sand containing a coolant that will absorb heat from the surface, reports The Australian.
The swimming pool will be refrigerated and there are also proposals to install giant blowers to waft a gentle breeze over the beach.
“We will suck the heat out of the sand to keep it cool enough to lie on,” said Soheil Abedian, founder and president of Palazzo Versace.
“This is the kind of luxury that top people want.”
Happy 102nd Birthday
Dec 28th
You don’t get to say that much, but I can of my Great Grandmother Lily who today on Sunday, 21 December 2008 turns 102 years old.
She obviously has had a large impact on my life and out of all my family members surprisingly we get along the best. I was happy to see her through her 98th birthday and now to see her get to 102 is a rare treat.
Here is for 103.
