sunday - well we shall see (shan't we)

saturday

a walk up the hill. a can of some brewdog thing (tasty but not politically correct).  in the afternoon zoom beer with howard (while he was eating his dinner - veggie pie and mash). 

the sheep are back (ewes and lambs). 

his mum was looking into getting more chickens. there's an adopt an ex-battery hen scheme but it looks a bit official. 

in the morning a dust up between crows and a buzzard. the buzzard had either killed or found the corpse of a young rabbit, the crows chased it off to spoil its fun.

horsemouth did more watering. he's run out of compost so he can't pot out any more plants until he gets some (granted he can re-use the compost in the pots that didn't come up). he's planted some more runner beans in pots - looks like two have come up so far (woo-hoo). 

his mum wants to get more potatoes (and some tomatoes). 

sunday

well we shall see (shan't we). 

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why global warming may result in the UK getting colder and drier

the argument is that global warming is causing the atlantic meridional overturning circulation to weaken.

'this weakening would reduce average air temperatures over scandinavia, great britain, and ireland, because these regions are warmed by the north atlantic current... 

a collapse would substantially lower the average temperature and amount of rain and snowfall in europe. it may also raise the frequency of extreme weather events and have other severe effects.

a 2020 study assessed the effects of an AMOC collapse on farming and food production in great britain.... an average temperature drop of 3.4 °C (6.1 °F) after the effect of warming was subtracted from collapse-induced cooling. a collapse of the AMOC would also lower rainfall during the growing season by around 123 mm (4.8 in), which would in turn reduce the area of land suitable for arable farming from 32% to 7%.' 

so you can see why horsemouth would worry about these sort of things. 

and yet he has survived again. 

next week: 

wednesday evening the first meeting of the communal endeavour of this season with the game of thrones (election of the officers). 

thursday bell-ringing

saturday an incredibly brief visit to the wen followed by a return to the wilds on the sunday. (let's see if that works). 

week after abbey rota.