thenotsomightyom

Thank you to Tanya Gupta of BBC News Online for the Headline

I had my suspicion about wood burners, mainly because wood burns very quickly and though it doesn’t create as much smoke as coal or peat, it can’t be a very efficient way of creating warmth in your home, never mind heating water for washing up and showers.

Thanks to Guildford Borough Council for having a “Clean Air Night” and encouraging those with woodburners to turn them off in the middle of January , just after Christmas and help the environment.

The council’s information said that wood burning led to air pollution , which in turn could lead to heart and lung disease and also an increased risk of diabetes and dementia.

So there you go, I was right, wood burners may look trendy and warm but they are harbingers of doom.

Thanks to Jordan Price of Vinylone for the Headline

We have had a particularly cold ( for us ) period recently and I have noticed a robin in my garden.

The article recommends putting cooked pasta out for them , but I use fat balls dotted around the garden and also a high suet ( specially for song birds) wild bird feed in the feeder. Also dried mealworms seem to disappear quite quickly.

It’s a pleasure to watch the birds, although they seem to do most of their feeding when I’m not about.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading. 🙏

Thanks to Zachary Chone and Kaanita Iyer and CNN Politics Online for the Headlline.

I’m sure President Trump must have had an aunt Delcy as he seems to have hit it off with the new acting leader of Venezuela straight from the start.

I bet the CIA Director was a trite nervous having to head off to Venezuela, probably wasn’t let send his deputy. I wonder how many security people he brought with him. He looked very nervous in the photograph.

He was there to talk about Oil Deals and that Venezuela could no longer send Narcotics to the United States. Simples.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading. 🙏

Thanks to Tess de la Mare and BBC Online News for the Headline

This is a particularly harrowing story of a chap running a roofing business going door to door with cards saying they’ll repair roofs, remove moss and then when they turn up to do the work which they have quoted a few hundred pounds to do , they “identify” other work that needs done that will cost tens of thousands of pounds.

The target was two elderly and infirm old ladies. They were defrauded of over £70,000 between them.

Prior to sentencing the said roofer repaid both the ladies all the money he took for them, so he avoided a jail sentence. They were however both traumatised, both by the lenghth of time the work had taken and also by the fact that the fabric of their houses was damaged and they were left worse off than they were before any work was started.

Frankly what is to stop that man doing that again and how about the people who he did it to who didn’t take him to court? We know how difficult it is to bring a timely court case nowadays.

I think we should have an independent trade line that will advise people who are by themselves or are unsure or elderly about work that they need done. It should be part of local Councils Trading Standards Operations and door to door canvassing should be banned.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading. 🙏