Primasonics Blog

There has been much excitement lately concerning the nightly meteorite 'show'. Personally I'm never able to stay up that late and those who did in my locality did not obtain such a good show as other areas. These meteors are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering Earth's atmosphere at extremely high speed. The majority are smaller than a grain of sand, so almost all of them disintegrate and never hit the Earth's surface. What we have seen lately has been intense or unusual meteor showers known as meteor outbursts and meteor storms. These may produce greater than 1,000 meteors an hour.

All you those thousands of my blog readers will know that I am a big 'fan' of the RMS Titanic, mainly because I come from near Belfast, Northern Ireland where the Titanic and her sister ships the Olympic and the Britannic were built for the White Star Line. However how many of you have ever heard of the SS Nomadic?

As I have mentioned in the dim and distant past, I was born in a small County Down, Northern Ireland town called Dromore. Indeed I have mentioned in a previous blog about my grandfather Joseph Magill who originally was a boot maker, in this link which is a snap shot from 1910, you can see his name mentioned within a summary of Dromore.

It is sometimes hard to believe when you look at Ullswater Lake and Helvelyn that Cumbria, England does not just possess stunning natural beauty but also contains its fair share of innovators and entrepreneurs – and this has always been the case stretching back over generations.

Within the Primasonics International organisation, one of the key jobs is that of head of security and that position is admirably filled by Miss Tina Tiddlemouse – my little Jack Russell terrier. Tina is now eleven and I got her when she was five months old and already had three owners, the last one locked her in a barn with horses for 23 hours out of 24.