Mikes weather bits & Photo Blog: Growing furniture! & a little logging

Saturday 20 June 2015

Growing furniture! & a little logging

There appears to be some substance to the Express headline of Big Breakthrough about type 1 diabetes. Even scientists are convinced that a jab used in the treatment of Tuberculosis can reverse the effects of type 1 diabetes - - -

a bloke somewhere in Derbyshire is growing furniture ! A business from a childhood vision is it would appear flourishing. Pre orders for his first harvest of furniture next year have sold out and people from around the world have expressed interest in replicating the business venture - - -

A climate change phenomenon makes thousands of tiny crabs cover a beach in Southern California after warmer than normal ocean currents carried them closer to shore than normal. A university of California official said "This is a warm water indicator, whether its related to El Nino or other oceanographic conditions is not certain" (!) - - -

Although there was some chance of rain yesterday i ventured forth to do a little logging. The sky was heavy with grey clouds to start with but by the time i finished it was glorious sunshine all the way. The final gangly bits of tree prove as usual to be difficult to fell having grown into and around a dry stone wall

patience is however rewarded with only one slight touch to a stone with the chainsaw blade which then needs sharpening.

picking up some wood for my Number 1 daughter (the elder) from one of our covered piles Bertie, one of Lisa's pet sheep comes to lend a hand. He's really only interested in the ginger biscuits i feed him and Napkin when i'm trying to get in and out of the fields with Boris

On my way driving out of the fields Lisa feeds Bertie and Napkin the biscuits to keep their attention off the open gate. A renegade sheep, at left, joins in the scrum! - - -