Given that the Anthropogenic Global Warming scammers are retreating rapidly on all fronts, there is still a group of scientists trying to convince the world that animals greatly affect the climate. This time we are not talking recent history, but prehistory and then some.
Some scientists are claiming that during the Mesozoic Era, there was a period of global warming on Earth caused by dinosaurs farting!!! What about that big shiny thing in the sky, then?
Today, being Monday was sunny. OK for me, as I don’t work Mondays as a rule. But I thought of all those folk, who’d had a completely washed out weekend and then went to work in blazing sunshine this morning – (well sunshine intermittently at least) – while I walked in the woods with a friend and two Labradors and we caught up with a few weeks’ news.
“Wait until you see the blue bells,” she said.
The rain has had a significant effect on the river levels around here. Lots of places where it had burst its banks, including someone’s back garden. And they say the water hasn’t finished rising yet and that there’s more to come. Continue reading “Weather be nice”
It may not last long, especially as the weather will be cold and there’s a fair wind, but the cherry blossom is looking wonderful. This evening as the sun went down it looked beautiful against the yew hedge, with the sun shining through it.
I grew up about 80 miles north of here and the cherry blossom in our garden used always to be out for my brother’s birthday in early May… are we really a few weeks ahead these days?
They’re on a 4-day state visit to Denmark, here being greeted by the Danish Crown Prince and his Tasmanian wife, Mary
We woke to the telephone. Being the first day of half term no-one had to be anywhere at any particular time and Cyclo decided that a bike ride was out of the question, so we hadn’t set the alarm. It seems the plumber had been up for hours and it was before 9am. I suppose it wasn’t surprising since the temperature was pretty low last night, down to -14c in some places. Anyhoo, the plumber was ringing as I had left a message last night – for a leak unrelated to the cold. The shower pump – again.
I got up and bought in the milk which had frozen and spilled out into small globules on the doorstep, then took a tray of tea back up to bed, where it was warmer.
Pippi-long-Stocking, the cat, enjoyed eating the milk globules Continue reading “Frozen milk”
Here are two buds which were ready a little too soon, caught by the frost and snow.
Colour it Grey
Grey pale thoughts of senses dulled
Lost hints of colour, long time past
Memories tarnished by loss and age
Glow less now on yellowed page
Saturday:
The snow was forecast. We had been warned. And so it was, at about 4pm, a few small flakes fell as I came back from the shops. Not enough to stick. Not at first. But it was pretty cold.
By the time I had come in and made a cup of tea the snow fall had thickened a little: I could see that the bonnet of my husband’s blue car had a coating of icing sugar.
By supper time when we looked out at the patio we saw this
and laid the dining room table.
Yes, we’re leaving the La Mancha region of the Baltic, having tilted at the monster mills and lost the fight. The local council, this evening, was unimpressed by our action group’s petition from 350 burghers, maintaining that the noise is no worse than the birdsong from the hedgerows and the new generation of turbines, far from being a blot on the landscape, will be a tourist attraction. Who could argue with logic like that? Oh and they’re cheaper to install than mills out to sea. So there. Think green. Yeah, right.
Fortunately we are well on the way to negotiating a not-too-painful departure from here by Easter, before the spreading wheat fields become an industrial zone.
Boadicea's Chariot 
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