Work at Chernobyl! & Lunch with the girls

The news today has some particularly gruesome stories or is it just me picking up on them I wonder  Child rape by a former rockstar,  Nigella crack head, bombs in Belfast - - ah well C'est la vie

Christmas is less than a month away, date wise and there are plenty of reminders round and about.  Non more so than the "BBC Sports Personality of The Year Award"and the  short list of hopefuls is paraded in this article

I/we don't watch a lot of sport and that's reflected in the fact i have No Idea who 3 of the line up are! Its an interesting programme though although it does drag on a bit.  Andy Murray apparently is favourite for winning this years Wimbledon mens final.  I would rather like Chris Froome our 2013 Tour De France winner to triumph although its unlikely because of Bradley Wiggins winning the 2012 SPOTY.
The comments below the story are of course, "gems".  Here's one "Its got to Murray this year, with any luck he wont be eligible (soon) as he will be a foreigner"  - - -

Chernobyl is in the news again with the construction of a roof over the sarcophogus which was built over the reactor which blew up in 1986 spewing radioactive dust over most of western Europe.  "Was it really that long ago!?"

The original cover should have been replaced in 2006 and this ambitious and massive construction job is hoped to be finished in 2015, lets hope its in place before the old one finally collapses! - - -

Another church story of "foot in mouth disease" is highlighted in this Mail story

Ex CNN News front-man man Hodson was "called" to be Church of England Curate only to fall almost at the first fence after 13 months by moving in with one of the "flock".  As always the story picks up on the fact that at the same time as he was "tending" his "lamb" he was also urging people to "confess their wrongdoings and repent!  He's banned from the ministry for 5 years so i guess he'll have a long "repenting" period - - - With his connections I don't think he'll be out in the cold too long - - - He could always be a politician with credentials like that!    - - -

Nearer to home
The cold and frosty Peak Organics work yesterday achieved quite a lot and was quite fulfilling.
I "finally" managed to clear everything away from the stone wallers next project

The area along the wall had been a general dumping area for years as well as having a few trees growing on it.  A bonus though was that a lot of the organic material had rotted down into some fine soil which I moved up into the garden area.
The recently constructed dry stone wall area was cleared up and the pathway membrane re-laid.

Here Jenny with the rake and Vanessa arranging the membrane with her 2 dogs looking on show off the new wall
Amazing to think that not long ago it looked like this (looking from the top area in the last pic)

Sainsbury paid us a visit and decided it was time to climb up a tree to get a better view of what we were doing

In our garden (behind the trellis in the pic) a winter project is hatching with unfortunately having to remove the large apple tree in this pic to "open up" the top terrace.  We do however have plans to replace it!

Its a bit of a day off today with car washing and taking Sally and Debs out to lunch before starting a set of shifts at the Fun Factory tomorrow with the new bakery manager in situ!

Enjoy the day

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