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 I caught  the up with my friend Jane for a silly video meet tonight. After that I met up with sheffield Mike on what’s app  It was his birthday today   Here is Mike well out of his sheffield comfort zone  He came to visit me here in wales and this is him with Boris my pet turkey I miss him dreadfully  We hope to go away for a few days together very soon Happy Birthday pal xx from Going Gently https://ift.tt/37tckCb

  After  a balanced food shop ( a purchase of extra hard pigs ears for the dogs) I’ve opened the cottage windows wide to a strong warm and rather welcoming breeze. The wind is just strong enough to keep the butterflies off the buddleia and the thistle down from my field is blowing from west to east in bursts like snow. The breeze is whisking away the construction noise from behind the cottage and all I can hear is the wind in the Elms and the faint contented sound of dog chewing. from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3AtAFnA

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A s I write, the main conclusions of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is delivering the key conclusions from its forty two page report known as "Summary for Policy Makers". None of what they have to say comes as a surprise. It is a tale of woe. A tale of increased CO2 levels in the atmosphere, of warming oceans, forest fires and desertification. Mankind has plundered and abused this beautiful planet and now we are reaching the painful reckoning. More than ever, those who deny climate change  seem like crazy fools - isolated in their ignorance. One of them even got to be America's 45th president. The report brings together hundreds of scientific studies and confirms what the rest of us suspected: climate change is real and human activity is responsible. There is no getting away from this truth.  Seen from outer space, this is just a little planet - a tiny blue and green marble gyrating in the endless blackness. You would think that the inhabitants of th...