A recent study has shown that plastics emit Greenhouse Gases when exposed to sunlight  Yay!  Not only do plastics last 'forever', breaking into smaller and smaller pieces, persisting in the environment and being mistaken by wildlife for food.  Thus, if wildlife doesn't get entangled in plastic waste and killed that way, they eat plastics and starve ( Read more... )

It's as I've thought from our coach trips - roadside verges are becoming a last refuge of rare plants.  For a long time now the sides of railway embankments and cuttings have become linear nature reserves. Many plants and animals thrive there undisturbed by humans, farming or passing trains ( Read more... )

Oh dear.  Just look at all these pigeons coming home to roost.  It could get to the stage where even the most racist ardent Brexiter might wish they'd voted to Remain in the EU.  But we've done it now.  Oh, it'll all sort itself out, eventually.  It will just take a while and with the present Conservative government, well, they might well dig an ( Read more... )

Today the sun is shining again.  w00t!  I haven't done any washing as there isn't that much to do, two big towels is all really.  I dare say I'll be regretting this next week, but there we are.

I gather that the east coast of the US of A is currently under a twelve-hour snowstorm, the fallout of which will be measured in feet, rather than the  ( Read more... )

Should you be able to crochet, even the basics of chain and single/double crochet (US/UK terms) and be at a loose end - fear not, Dear Reader.  You could crochet a nest for Rescued Wildlife.  Pardon?  Hie Thee to their website, Dear Reader, and have a shufti.  They want 'nests' for everything from abandoned baby birds to abandoned kangaroos.  That ( Read more... )

The Morning After

H went off to work this morning in the check shirt which really outlines his 'tub'.  There are other shirts available in the wardrobe, but I s'pose it's just too dark in our bedroom at 5.40am (we have thick velvet curtains)  Know I wasn't with it then.  Have only made it to one 5.40 start this week.  H needs a break, I need a ( Read more... )