PM's not so successful negotiating takes a beating & we have a Daffodil in bloom

The Express and a number of other newspapers pour scorn on the PM's negotiating skills to secure a better deal for the UK, more support for Brexit campaign although it doesnt look to robust right now - - - 

The Mail carries a tale that will not surprise many that lots of people queuing up at Calais to get into the UK are anything but migrants - - - 

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The BBC have this story  about overnight snow in Scotland caused by an "Arctic Blast" of cold air which can be seen on the pic above.  The Met O indicates that the snow could have "prolonged spells" overnight, the familiar tales of closed schools power outages and ferries not running litter the article.  Its looking like the effects of Storm Gertrude could be around until late Sunday at least - - - 

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I hadn't emptied out the pond filters in a while and with the cold but half decent weather yesterday i decided to give it a go.  I replaced our old Hozelock filter with a 

 new one last july, the IR on the old one gave up the ghost years ago.  I'm not all that convinced about how IR light is meant to clump the smaller algae but the foam pads in this filter work great and are so easy to clean. 

up to my armpits in pond gunk i noticed that at least one of our Daffodils has been fooled by the warm weather.  I bet its changed its mind this morning because the Temp is currently 4.5c - - -

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 We had a short period of heavy rain around 04:00 and its been lighter and off and on since.  Looking at the rain radar we look to be getting very narrow bands of it for a while 

No moon again on the weathercam so its 100% cloud right now.  The forecast is for a windy but mostly dry day with some light showers between 12:00 and 17:00 - - -

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UPDATE 08:10

08:10 and the cloud does look to be thinning out, slightly!
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