The temperature dropped quite suddenly later in the day and that, combined with strong winds, saw me out freshening up the bedding for the pigs.
Needless to say, Doris always enjoys fluffing up her bed with fresh straw.
I’ve just collected the Wee ‘Un from playgroup but when I went out to hop in the car, I discovered the wind has been having a bit of fun.
It’s blowing a gale here at the moment and the wind had got behind one of the wooden gates that leads into the steading, slamming it into the back of the Land Rover Defender.
The ladder to the roof rack was smashed flat into the bodywork - it’s three-millimetre thick steel that can easily take my weight - while the indicator was also shattered. Read the rest of this entry »
The slavish amount of attention given to the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change on the cost of climate change continues to annoy me - even if the increased publicity about climate change is welcome.
Why does this society and culture invest more belief and faith in the dubious high priests of economics, than in showing concern for the environment that surrounds us, sustains us and allows us to be here at all?
Economics is not everything. Economics is one way – sometimes a useful way – of looking at the world around us and making decisions. But economics is not the only way, and people often forget that. Read the rest of this entry »
We’ve just had car problems here.
It was blowing a gale with horizontal rain and the Other Half’s Discovery had a flat front left tyre at 8.10am.
And she needed to be at school on time if possible - and she leaves at 8.10am! Read the rest of this entry »
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