WEATHER – OCTOBER 2020

I am fascinated by all things weather and climate related. So I am going to start a monthly weather blog. So see p2 for details of October, which I will update as we go through the month. I thought this might move to top of the list when updated, but it does not. So I will update here, and then repost as a months worth at the start of next month.

WILD GARDEN

I never know what to do with the soil from the tomatoes and cucumbers and chillies in the greenhouse at this time of year. So I have a plan. Mix the soil with wild seeds like yellow rattle and then just spread out onto of the grass – hopefully this will give the seeds enough of a chance to get started and compete with the grass.

NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW

Jeremy Corbyn was photographed at a dinner party for 9. He was wrong and has apologised. If not fined he should make a donation to the NHS. He should also consider who his friends are! Who took the picture and sold it to the press? But the same consequence should apply to Boris’s dad who was photographed shopping without a mask.

WTF!

5 grey parrots at Lincolnshire Wildlife Park have had to be separated as they set each off into bouts of swearing!

Health versus Economy

Probably and over simplification of the title of this blog, because it is not an either or situation. Rather a case of the balance between the two. The main problem would seem to be a lack of a functioning test, track and trace system. This was entirely predictable when the government ignored local NHS bodies with experience to hand out large contracts to private companies with no relevant expertise. To my mind the solution is …..