Waking Up.
Hi,
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We have had a change in the weather here, thank goodness.
It has suddenly become warmer, with intermittent blue skies, not exactly summery but different enough to give us hope that the summer may actually arrive at some time!
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As all of the horrible black ice is now gone, we are able to take some walks again when Big H feels up to it….nothing like a breath of fresh air for waking you up.
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Talking about waking up.
Last night I went to sleep at about 1.30am and then totally woke up again at ten to four.
After lying in bed, wide awake for a half hour, I finally gave in and went downstairs to make a pot of green tea and toast two Warburton‘s Potato Pancakes.
I then quietly crept back into bed, put on the bedside lamp and read my latest library book until ten to eight.
By that time the heating had been back on for an hour, so it was warm enough to get back up.
Big H did not stir once during my reading epic, so all was well.
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Why is all of the news so depressing these days, is no-one interested in the good things that happen anymore!
It is all a harsh diet of grief, violence and selfish behaviour….sad!
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Talking about sad though.
Did you know that there have been even more reports of large groups of creatures suddenly dying!
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In these latest reports, it appears that Alabama is once more at the centre of another fall of Grackles.
Hundreds of these birds were found lying beside the highway, with feathers spread about in bloody snow.
Some people think that it could have been caused by the birds being hit by something.
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At another site in California there was a similar incident of dead birds by a road, also looking as if they had been hit by something.
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There have been many such reports over the years, sometimes of many thousands of creatures, but thanks to the Internet the general public is now able to find out about things which would once have had only local interest.
See this link to a USGS report in 1996, which shows that an estimated 100,000 ducks died of Type C Botulism on Old Wives Lake in Canada.
It has all led to furious interest and to a mixture of theories about the possible causes.
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It is a shame that an equal interest is not displayed in the decimation and extinction of the very rare animals which we are carelessly allowing to be killed off at a furious and still accelerating rate.
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Sadly,
j.
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