Another fish dies & The Falklands want to remain British

Just sitting here this morning culling stories from the news for the blog and all our power went off.  I flicked it back on and everything seemed ok. Not long after i went out to feed the birds and noticed ice forming on the fish pond.  Not unusual I thought as its below zero and the pond heater only keeps a small hole free.  The pond filter and air bubble maker only run intermittently so nothing looked out of place. 

I put out some bird feed and came back to the PC and tried to look at the webcam and it wouldn't show, thinking the netbook running that end needed rebooting i went up to the shed and realised it had no power.  It didn't take long to suss out the pond heater had fused the system and I replaced it with a spare and we were up and running!  However one fish was definitely not "up and running" lying on the bottom.  So we chalked up our second fatality, fingers crossed now that its not some kind of virus! 

In the news however - - - I see that Chris Huhne and is ex have been banged up for 8 months.  He has said he is "sorry" for what he's done.  Only cos he's been caught though i fear!!!!!!  

Once again a "little" snow brings parts of the country to a grinding halt.  A cracking example of how not to clear the roads of 4 yes 4 inches of snow.  Can you believe it hundreds of vehicles stuck all night on a major motorway because of 4 inches of snow.  read all about it!

I never knew cricketers had to do homework - - - did you?  A wonderful story in the Telegraph tells of a cricketer "Shane Watson" who says "I'm sort of weighing up my future and what i want to do with my cricket in general".  This is all after he and 3 others didn't fill in a questionnaire requested by the coach.  The coach then dropped him and the 3 others only to get a real roasting from former players at the decision.  Hang on guys, just a minute here, it could be me but i seem to think the coach was just trying to instill a bit of TEAM SPIRIT into a bunch of smug self important spoilt "athletes"  that seems to have blown up in his face!!!!!!!! 

The Falklands folk have been voting to stay, or not, British.  As expected from a 92% turn out of voters the Yes vote was more than 99% so yee haaaa! wave the flag etc etc etc.  But wait a minute 3 votes, yes 3 votes were cast for not remaining British.  I wonder who??  Mmmmmmmmmmm

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