Lottery winners not happy & we prepare for Christian!

Lottery winners were not happy according to this Mail story

This is a pic after they were told they had "Only won £4.7m".  A blunder by Camelot had estimated the prize to be £6.2m .  I think i would still be able to raise a smile!  Some of the readers comments below the article are "priceless!"  no pun intended - - - -

There's something satisfying about seeing a fox in the wild unless you own chickens.  An acquaintance has a constant battle stopping the foxes taking her laying hens!

Walking locally one morning locally we saw a vixen by the edge of a field watching a couple of its cubs rolling around in the grass.  Not long after in the same area we were surprised to see a fix walking along the narrow road towards us.  It had failed at first to see us but when it did it soon shot off into the dense undergrowth.  This BBC story concerns urban foxes.  Love em or hate em it looks as if they are around to stay

Psychics are always in for a bashing if they get things wrong and here's one who paid for it with his job
A bus driver thought something "bad was going to happen" so he didnt bother to pick up the school children he was supposed to.  A "Spiritual medium" defended his action while his bosses dismissed him out of hand!

Just about every arm of the news media is covering "Christian" which is the name given to the storm approaching UK from the Atlantic.  Sky news  has a good piece about it with graphics to match

A satelite image attached to the story shows Christian approaching and the text waxes lyrical about the trail of damage that could come in its wake. They even drag out an image from the 1987 "Great storm"  Watch Christian develop today around Darley Dale on our weather website

So I guess we might see more like this through Monday and Tuesday.
Around here last night the sky was clear and we had a fairly stiff breeze.  Earlier this morning it was raining although now (07:00) the sky is reasonably clear again

as one of our resident squirrels raids the bird feeders.  

I have managed to get myself back into "the book" and am trawling through the 120 odd pages correcting spelling mistakes and grammatical errors before I insert a few remaining pics and move on to the next chapter 

Here's a good pic from 1965.  I was with 7 Para RHA back then and we were live firing the howitzers in Sharjah (Persian Gulf)  The gun has just fired and a guy called Brain Crampton is throwing clear the hot brass cartridge case.  - - - ah the good old days! lol 

Enjoy the day

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