The Express repeats one of its favourite bits of health advice this morning, Dont eat too much sugar and it will reduce your blood pressure - - -
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nice pic in the Mail of the Autumn colours in Cambridge yesterday, the story hints that it was 20c in Southern England. The weather in the next few days is predicted to to be quite wet and the temp around 14c. We shall see a return to 20c for halloween though!
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This story from the BBC says that "the era of routine patrols by the police has come to an end" In our rural area patrolling has not been evident for a long time and the only sight of the police we get is as they flash past the house sirens blaring, a sign of the times i guess - - -
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Another sign of the times is the apparent waste of food, specifically Vegetables as laid out in this BBC story
these parsnips in the pic above will never reach the supermarket shelves they were destined for because, "They just departed,sometimes by a matter of millimetres, from some bizarre set of specifications that defines, with apparent omniscience, what it is that we, the customers, demand our parsnips to be"
Its no surprise that the middle person in the above pic is Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall who champions that 50% of all all food bought by us is thrown away - - -
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I'm musing here on a point of view that might not be politically correct but is purely personal and not meant to insult anyone - - - Listening/watching a programme on the PBS America TC channel yesterday a black lady was talking about a serial murderer who had murdered 6 woman as 4 "African American Woman" and 2 Whites" . Pondering what she had just said about, "whites" i thought, surely if the Black woman can be called African American why cant Whites be called something like "Second Nation Americans" ? - - -
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Lunching at The Grouse was a misty foggy affair yesterday. On the drive up, through 4 sets of temporary traffic lights! the fog was with us one minute and gone the next but up at the pub it was not showing any signs of receding in the breezy conditions. Arriving promptly at opening time is a boon because 40 minutes later it is a noisy thronging crowd that are lunching! - - -
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We had intended to change the pond filters and "garden" a little after lunch but the weather was so gloomy we settled for indoor activities. The garden though did have a little attention the day before, we have had a large wooden tub, actually an old pond complete with liner, with a lilac in that could be better displayed.
In the afternoon sunshine we decided to move it and with a little distraction from a large lump of concrete it finally was replanted at the top of the garden. We are hoping it will enjoy the sunnier aspect!
The small green house at the bottom of the garden has been home as usual to the grape vine this year but its time to get rid of all its foliage and it can be clipped right back in spring. A rogue tomato plant sprung up from the greenhouse gravel floor, some time ago, obviously a previous years tomato having fallen off the vine. There are lots of fruit on it but alas we dont think they will ever ripen so that can go today - - -
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mild to warm once again but as the ran stats show its been raining overnight
the weathercam shows up the mist on the other side of the valley and it is raining lightly at the moment. The weather peeps are indicating that it will be rainy for the next few days. - - -
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Enjoy the day
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