Mikes weather bits & Photo Blog: Statins take another bashing & I start a new wood stack

Sunday 31 January 2016

Statins take another bashing & I start a new wood stack

Statins once hailed as the wonder cure all drug is now, after a 10 year study branded "controversial" in this Sunday Express article. The Government Drug Regulator however says the benefits of statins are considered to outweigh the side effects - - - Mmmmmm - - -

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THis pic fronts a story in the Telegraph with the headline David Cameron to force EU crunch meeting as migration crisis deepens "far right" groups staged a 5 hour riot in Dover yesterday and made it quite clear they did not support the migrants coming into the UK. The story also relates that in Stockholm far right groups attacked migrants and handed out leaflets indicating further attacks would follow. I suppose the Dover riot had to come and i'm surprised this type of thing took so long in surfacing. - - -

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A rather unusual story this one, A british helicopter pilot is shot by Elephant poachers in Tanzania, it would appear that Roger Gower was shot at while searching for poachers in his helicopter near a dead elephant and was hit by a poachers AK47 bullet. He crash landed the chopper but was dead when rescuers reached him.

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It was pretty cold as i ventured down the hill to the logging area yesterday

I had intended to clear and level a 2ft area alongside the whole of the fallen wall where i am going to stack the wood from the copse of trees.

it was so cold though in the wind that after I cleared a short level area I determined that it would be better to start swinging the maul to smash up some of the wood and get a little warmth back into my cold fingers. Of course the sun then came out and it wasn't so bad after all

the beginnings of a wall take shape I'm going to tackle the bits of trunk on the other side of the track and then call it a day

The clouds return and it does look like it might rain as i step back to admire my handy work, it might not win any prizes but its a great way to dry and season the wood. I'll cut a piece of black plastic sheeting today to cover just the top of the stack

There are a couple of Robins who come and look what i'm doing and often they will be around me if i'm disturbing the ground when they go looking for food. I started putting some bird food in the shape of Robin mix on an old piece of tree trunk that i couldn't smash and although i had never seen them feeding the food is always gone next day. As i was leaving yesterday i observed 2 of them in the trees near to where the food was and as i got to about 30 yards away i watched them both swoop on top of the trunk and start to feed - - -

Its taken LM a week to get used to the new settee maybe he didn't like the colour, but he looks to have claimed his spot now

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TODAYS WEATHER
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it appears to be snowing up in Scotland and i even saw a few flakes in the air as i drove back from logging yesterday. The radar is showing the light rain falling right now