Saturday 8 December 2007 7 Musical Smurfs

Friday 7 December 2007 7 things I didn't know last month

  1. The difference between nuclear fission and nuclear fusion
  2. The -caster -chester -cester suffixes in a lot of English town names means 'Roman Town' in Anglo-Saxon
  3. Thomas Edison invented the electricity meter
  4. A cheese maturer is called an Affineur
  5. Silver metallic sticky wrapping tape is almost impossible to find this year
  6. Irn Bru couldn't be called Iron Brew because it isn't brewed
  7. How to tie a bow-tie

Thursday 6 December 2007 7 hottest chilli peppers

#Chilli PepperScoville Units
1Naga Jolokia800,000 - 1,001,300
2Dorset Naga800,000 - 900,000
3Red Savina Habanero350,000 - 575,000
4Chocolate Habanero300,000 - 425,000
5Scotch Bonnet150,000 - 325,000
6Orange Habanero150,000 - 325,000
7Fatalii150,000 - 325,000

Wednesday 5 December 2007 7 tracks making a rainbow of music

  1. Red Rain - Peter Gabriel
  2. Orange Wedge - The Chemical Brothers
  3. Yellow Daisies - Navasha Daya & Fertile Ground
  4. Green Man - Type O Negative
  5. Blue Cosmos - Meg Bowles
  6. Indigo Flow - Limp Bizkit
  7. Violet - Hole

Tuesday 4 December 2007 7 children's TV programs that were seemingly concieved in a psychodelic haze

  1. Magic Roundabout
  2. Mr Benn
  3. Jamie & his Magic Torch
  4. Crystal Tipps and Alistair
  5. Banana Splits
  6. The Clangers
  7. Button Moon

Monday 3 December 2007 7 things I have learnt about writing this blog over the past year

Today is a special day... On this day in 2006, LO7T was born with a post about an overweight girl with matching mustard leggings and handbag. Thank you to everyone for reading so far and especially to my band of regular submitters, you know who you are :)

  1. Finding 5 or even 6 things is usually simple, the 7th is nearly always a problem
  2. The amount of people who point out 7 things to me is surprising
  3. Things don't tend to come in groups of 7
  4. On numerous occations I have spotted groups of 7 things but discovered I have an inadaquate or no camera (7 busses in a row)
  5. I have only once in the past year forgotten to put up a list before midnight! 12:30ish after realising I had completely forgotten. Don't bother searching, I back dated it ;)
  6. On numerous accations people have asked a question that I could answer by referring to a previous 7 things
  7. The LO7T is the longest running website I have ever owned!

Sunday 2 December 2007 7 facts about the Sun

Today's post comes from my Dad, thanks Dad :)

  1. Every second 4 million tons of hydrogen is destroyed in explosions<7li>
  2. The core temperature is 15 million degrees C
  3. It radiates more energy than man has used since the dawn of civilisation in one second
  4. The Earth's entire oil, coal and wood reserves would fuel the suns output to the Earth alone in only a few days
  5. Tongues of hydrogen flame leap from the sun’s surface with a force of 1000 million hydrogen bombs
  6. In the sun’s core 564 million tons of hydrogen fuse each second to form helium
  7. Matter at the core of the sun is so hot that a pinhead of it would give off enough heat to kill a man 100 miles away