Mikes weather bits & Photo Blog: beer is good for you & one less black Rabbit

Tuesday 23 June 2015

beer is good for you & one less black Rabbit

This initiative which is covered all over the media today targets GP's to spot and treat cancer earlier great idea if they can cope with the extra work after recent reports about surgeries closing because of overworked doctors taking early retirement - - -

10 scientific reasons why drinking beer is good for you - - - sound advice - - -

Amazing video of of a cat using up 8.99 of its 9 lives

Intending to do a few jobs in the morning yesterday then take cover from the expected rain and insert a few pics in the book i modified the drainage system on Boris's carport. The system had been "none functioning" since we built the adjoining one in the winter and just pooled behind Boris. the previous system just drained to a dustbin which then, via a hosepipe on the ground fed it away to the drain by our kitchen window.

This was always suspect because the pipe could get moved and inevitably as it did every winter when it froze with vehicles driving over it it cracked and needed replacing.

It struck me that i could funnel the water back to an underground drain we put in when we had the washing machine in the shed years ago. We still use the drain to get rid of pond overflow so i knew it was working

with an old plastic plumbing elbow joint and lashings of fernox ls-x leak sealant the job was done and tested as the heavens opened for a short while. It might overflow if there's a real downpour but hey its only water!

Flushed (NPI) with this success i completed a similar job on the old wood shed roof which allowed us to get rid of the dustbin the water used to collect in and gives us a little more room.

The wet weather predicted didnt appear so we idled the afternoon away chatting in the garden about future projects and the book work was abandoned - - - THURSDAY! do it THURSDAY!!!

Sally has often mentioned seeing a black rabbit when she does her early morning walk and in the past i have also seen them. LM however has ideas of reducing the black rabbit population!! Around midnight i awoke to the familiar strains of him announcing he has something to show me. In the darkness i imagined the pathetic black bundle to be a blackbird and hoped for its and our sake it was already dead. Switching on the light to investigate it was plain to see that it was a small black rabbit! - - - I returned to bed while LM devoured it noisily and cleared up the, "remains" this morning, the carpet needs cleaning again! - - - the landing carpet is the only one we have in the house but it must have been cleaned to within an inch of its life several times - - -