Wot no snow! & Garden moves!

With the promise of snow yesterday broken i peered out of the curtains this morning with a little less confidence than to expect a mantle of white to be covering the garden.  I see from the news though that the A66 in Cumbria slithered to a halt after a couple of inches of snow that was also forecast - - - heads should roll! Just looking at the Metcheck up wind precipitation gizmo and it predicts we shall have snow at precisely 07:53!  

I see from the papers that young Bieber the Canadian singer is in trouble again, having booked a number of suites in the prestigious Hotel Le Maurice in Paris he has been thrown out on his ear because his fans invaded the foyer and upset the more, shall we say, usual clientele!  Maybe he should have gone for the less prestigious Formule1 they don't seem to mind noise!   

The snippet I included about a tax on savings in the Cyprus euro rescue debacle is interestingly covered by a headline in the I with a "Cyprus shuts banks to halt dash for cash" how naive can they be what did they expect!  Another twist though is that our forces on the island who were promised they would be protected against the tax by our "ministers" look to be betrayed!

A tale dear to our hearts at "Che Dakin" is carried by Sky News nuisance phone calls! we get the usual pre recorded ones about PPI but were also plagued by people attempting to sell us Gold, Diamonds and Wine.  Hey ho to have the money for these!   In the end we disconnected all but the answer machine phone and after 2 rings set it to go to the answer machine message.  Result? lots of silent phone calls!   

A pretty hideous story on sky news shows the bodies of 2 dead men strung upside down with a baying crowd below.  The story is from Egypt where the "attorney generals office encouraged civilians to arrest criminals and hand them over to the police! A case of give them an inch etc etc etc!

Locally a great day was had in the garden as we ventured forth even with the threat of avalanches of snow in an attempt to "move a few things around"  The 2 Bamboo plants mentioned yesterday were duly dug up & successfully and moved to their new position along with a number of young box hedge plants.

Here the bamboo plant is being lowered into its new position with Tom the cat looking on from the seat we use to gaze into our pond.  The second one is on the right of this pic at the top of the garden.  They had been in situ for a few years and we wondered if it would be possible to get them out but all went well.

Both of the Bamboo plants safely in place should supply some good cover to the pond in the summer. 

 

Enjoy the day

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