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Not my weather, but a friend of a friend just popped over to visit her family in Alberta. Arrived in a blizzard and minus 30°C. As Michael Hordern said in that wonderful ghost story ‘Oh whistle and I’ll come to you, my lad’, upon seeing the bedclothes in his room writhing, “Oh no… No… No…”

But why should charity be confined to causes close to home? Plenty of "ordinary blokes in the street" care sufficiently about the horrendous suffering in Gaza, for instance, to try to do something to relieve it. These are human beings just like us - except that we have the benefit of living in...

That really made me well up @Tui34 . Thank you for posting it, it sums up the whole situation and the response. I have relatives in Oz, and visited Bondi many years ago.

If you like the Shipping Forecast on Radio Four, tune in to this morning’s version in the style of Jane Austen. 7.26 to 7.28, the time.

New to me Magpie Inkcap says it all where we live there are lots of Magpies nearly every day there’s one or two flying . As for Earthstar very unusual and learnt something new , Thankyou @strongylodon

Got to the Allotments today, managed to cut back the Asparagus fronds and get them on a bonfire, unfortunately in spite of covering the the pile with heavy black plastic, most of the rest was too wet to burn properly. I cleared up under the fruit trees, and put some heavy cardboard down...

@pete , you need to get a smartphone. It's the perfect size, shape and weight to keep Chiltern's catalogue open.

Sown Kelsae, giant onions, yesterday in a pot in the boiler room.Once germinated they will go under lights in a cooler unheated room.

Maybe mine too but I was only saying about my day so far I don't look at the moan thread, it gets too political and boring.I don't know what 2GB etc means ...

Finally from G K Chesterton The Rolling English Road (1913)Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round the shire, And after him the parson ran, the sexton and the squire; A...