Mikes weather bits & Photo Blog: Fish for dinner? no thanks! & sheep try to eat my chainsaw

Sunday, 26 October 2014

Fish for dinner? no thanks! & sheep try to eat my chainsaw

11 people from the same family are in hospital after cooking and eating a Puffer fish
It has a toxin which is 1200 more lethal than cyanide says the story although it also mentions the Japanese eat it but the chef has to take a 3 year course to qualify to prepare it!
The fish was given to the unfortunate people by a "family friend" who caught it on a fishing trip - - -

Another front page headline that looks as if its wishful thinking - - - only works on people who are renting unfortunately - - -

OK applause applause! a Google executive seen here in the pic suspended below a helium balloon sets a record for the highest parachute jump at 135,000 feet
Hes in a self contained space suit during the four and a half minute freefall he reached speeds of more than 800 mph.
The cost of the project isnt mentioned but it must have been mega dollars!
As usual the last line of the story bears some scrutiny. "This has opened up endless possibilities for humans to explore previously seldom visited parts of our atmosphere" - - - Mmmmm - - - mind you the previous paragraph in the story is an even bigger load of twaddle - - -

I managed a couple of hours logging yesterday in the chilly weather. Not taking Boris and therefore not having any biscuits for Bertie and Napkin they tried to eat my chainsaw when i put it down to take a pic of them. Napkin (on the right) has a good collection of thistle heads stuck to his fleece, very becoming

We realised after we had put up our pergolas that we didn't really have an area for "stuff" in the garden. So yesterday we put up this little bit of fencing. The idea here is to move the dwarf apple tree and the rose on the trellis and have the area behind the fence for empty plant pots bags of peat etc. The growth from the Buddleia will hid the fence for most of the year.