18.01.2020 As one door closes so another closes.

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Saturday 18th 40F, heavy overcast and breezy. Another grey day is forecast. After early teasing of weak sunshine from the horizon it descended into overcast with light rain at times.

 Denmark's deepest lake [at 500'] has never fully recovered from the 2018 drought.

Sunday 19th 34F, clear but cold. Sunshine forecast for most of the day with northerly winds. Huntsmen turned up to practice their Sunday plank dropping exercises. A chill wind accompanied unbroken sunshine.

In an unlikely coincidence of timing the totally decrepit and utterly irrelevant monarchy writes its spider's scrawl, suicide note to the future. Just as Boris writes his own absence note to the EU in the absence of any responsible adult. What has the UK really gained?

A few more, or less, Chinese tourists? A few less, utterly pointless headlines from the lower order's, cartoon tabloids? Lower minimum wages, [if any.] While the director moves into a second, stately home? Due to the absence of affordable homes in The Capital. As the money launderers fight their turf wars over desirable property and expanding their drugs empires. Meanwhile the planes constantly roar overhead. To-ing an fro-ing between packed resorts full of drunken, beached whales and the skin cancer wards.

In Danish news, the flagrant production of CO2, by countless, medieval church, central heating boilers is to end. The last of the remaining, elderly church goers have gone to their old people's homes in the sky. Churches will become available to rent for weddings and funerals. At all other times the boilers will no longer be stoked for empty services and constantly empty buildings. Except when the builders are in for repairs, of course.

Nor will the churchyards be constantly tended as they are now. Nor, presumably, will the buildings be re-painted the traditional white every couple of years. At vast expense to the compulsory taxpayer. I expect the same was true when the Vikings were compulsorily converted to Christianity. Back when all the old rings, henges and mounds were taken over by the new-fangled wooden churches. Before long they invented witch burning to keep the congregations warm at compulsory, winter services.

Plans are afoot to store Danish CO2 in old oil and gas wells under the sea. Only the largest producers would have CO2 stripped from their chimneys and sent down from a buoy marking a hose out at sea. Norway has been storing CO2 underground for years. While the technology is bulky and costly, it is available "off the shelf." Smaller producers would have to continue to reduce their CO2 as technology and energy systems advance. Denmark now produces half of its energy from wind and solar.

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