Not Doris but MrB

Storm Doris is heading towards the UK. In Germany it is named Storm Thomas  or to be very precise "Thomas Goram". In Germany you can adopt all Highs & Lows with a name that then becomes the official weather name used in all weather reports. A tradition started in 1954 and open to anyone. For 299 Euros you can adopt a weather event and will get a certificate of birth and life one it has happened. This year, female names are Highs and we males are the Lows. Here the University of Berlins Website in English explaining and detailing who each of the weather vortexss has been named after - a different birthday present!

Well today is actually MrB's day or at least his birthday. This morning's walk was again stormy and done in the shelter of ´what we call the Beehouse walk which is close to us and not where MrB has his bee house. Confused?

By evening, the wind had reduced so did an evening dog walk over fields close to the village and on the way home stopped off at MrB's place to wish him a happy birthday. He was just on his way out for a quick walk with his dog Donna. I didn't have a present but he still took the time for a long chat. I had to inform him that all of my five beehives died off this winter, I am, to say the least, very upset but as MrB told me at the offset a few years ago - "when something goes wrong, look at yourself for the mistake first".

Angie later when she returned from work, popped over to the B's with the present, amongst which was a rather nice large framed photo Angie had taken of him a while ago dressed and equipped in his hunter's gear.

The Blip is taken close to MrB's house. Parish council has been very busy this week felling and/or cutting back trees in the village some of which have required large scale action from the electricity company to temporarily remove electricity cables.

The forwarder in the Blip is an older model from the Finnish company "Logset Oy" who have a UK agent "RJ Fukes Forestry Services" in Wales and Carlisle, Cumbria close to Copeland District where the interesting by-election takes place tomorrow.

Copeland includes Sellafield Nuclear Reprocessing plant and formerly the Windscale Nuclear Power plant now being decommissioned but "hopefully" soon to be the site of a new nuclear power plant. Well at least according to the Conservative party candidate campaigning on the great and positive value of being a leader in nuclear technology and the jobs generated. No mention of any health risks but I guess that being located on the Irish Sea, the risk is automatically reduced by 50% and most of the remaining 50% is only National Park. Here in Germany for decades, long before the catastrophes in the Ukraine and Japan, residents or areas close to nuclear plants or possible plants/depots have been protesting very strongly to get rid of them - better alive and relatively healthy than having a ticking time bomb. I doubt you would find a female politician with four young children campaigning for nuclear jobs in her constituency in Germany. Probably another good reason for Brexit.

Happy Birthday MrB