We should eat bugs they tell us! & good pics from a walk yesterday

I read with a tinge of cynicism the story on sky news telling us Cameron was "seizing the initiative" and would propose laws to guarantee an "in out referendum" on our EU membership.  This feeling was born out when looking at the Daily Express headline of "The great EU revolt MP's mutiny to get early referendum".  Almost makes you believe it'll never happen!

Mention of the horsemeat scandal and the story from China about restaurants serving rats in yesterdays blog seem "small beer" compared to the BBC story about the UN urging people to eat more Bugs!  It seems "wasps beetles and other insects" are underutilised! Especially as they are "extremely efficient" at converting feed into edible meat. There's a handy little chart to show you the "insect nutritional value per 100g.  It might be looooong time though before i order "dung beetle grasshopper and Caterpillar on wholemeal, to go please!"  Mmmmmmm

Our (UK) fickle weather has truck again so to speak, it was only days ago that "the ones in the know!" were telling us it was going to be a "scorching May" when today Snow is predicted and temperatures could be 10c below normal.  Fingers crossed for all the plants just planted out in the garden.

I was going to pop in a pic of our garden but the upload server isn't working at the moment.  I decided yesterday that the shot would be the subject of my next time lapse project. 

Finally - - - With the threat of snow it makes yesterdays walk in the sunshine seem a long time ago, so without the pic upload facility not functioning just now click on this link  and you can see the Picasa web albumn shots.  We noticed also that the Morel mushrooms we spotted last year are again around in greater profusion if not a few weeks later so here's a Link for them with a few wild flowers thrown in for good measure. 

Enjoy the day

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