30.11.2020 As if at a distance, dimly.

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Monday 30th 36F, heavy overcast but light winds so far. I took my long lens but saw only one [pale] bird of prey at 150 yards today. It kept moving on as I walked parallel to its hedgerow on the far side of the field. I was surprised to have captured a fair likeness at that distance in such poor light.

Tax-Free Google Advertising.com have just opened a vast new data centre in Denmark. It will provide the necessary capacity to handle some of their local advertising as they push their advertising eastwards to towards the Soviet Rust Belt. 

A number of large, solar "farms" have been built to pretend that the data centre will be "green." How long it will actually take to undo its real CO2 footprint is quite another matter. They didn't dare use a large fraction of the entire Danish grid. Not when it was discovered the power stations here were burning Amazon Rainforest hardwoods shipped half way around the globe. That would have been bad PR. For Google, if not for <cough> "green" Denmark.

There was another news story on the difficulty of selling off all the land from the unused mink farms. Particularly now that the stock has been culled and fur farming may not be resurrected. Perhaps these areas could be turned into solar farms? Rather than over-paying grain farmers for the use of their agricultural land?

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29.11.2020 "Buy me a sheeple! Tra-la-la."

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Sunday 20th 36F, dark grey and calm. A walk to the lanes. Typical! I left my long lens behind and saw four birds of prey within ten minutes and one hundred yards. Traffic very quiet going. More on the way back.

I refuse to say any more about the slaver colonies and their ridiculous election system. Any country with that level of insanity, in choosing its leaders, deserves everything it gets and more. Their "buy my vote" advertising "election" system is so flawed that they can't even get rid of the last raving lunatic. 

Riches enough to buy a team of "ambulance chasers" is all you need to add another total loser at the top table. They can easily undermine the democratic will of the sheeple. Because they are not a democracy. They even add a nice big dollop of raving, drooling insanity on top of the fake new advertising wars. Just to ensure a few corrupt individuals can overturn the sheeple's will.

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28.11.20 Wireless, Jinping Plague, Filthy Lucre, Superspreaders? 😷

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Saturday 28th 31F, dark, white frost and thick mist. No walk yet. Nor today. I captured a "peekaboo" Blackbird in the hedge.

I had to collect some more fuel for the stove. So I went early. The place was deserted except for one member of staff. Checkout screen, disposable gloves and mask? Okay. Very low risk. That is, until I needed my reading glasses to use the manual, pin code entry, card payment device. Of course my glasses steamed up because I was wearing a regulation, certified, surgical mask.

The "wireless" card payment system didn't register my card despite it being a brand new payment machine. I know this because the battered old, manual only machine has been replaced since I last visited. 

So now I am a super-spreader for want of the bank's idiot, 21st century machine recognising a £20 "wireless" [contactless] payment for firewood. Right in the middle of a global pandemic. There is no excuse. Because the shadow of the nearest mobile phone mast literally falls over the business like a huge gnomon. I'm assuming these machines don't use a landline but what do I know?

While deranged [and retarded] cynics rave about phone masts actually causing the virus. It is the banks who are adding their very own dollop of "dicing with danger." To every payment transaction requiring contact with their filthy keys. 

Let's call it a "Filthy Lucre" machine and be done with it! Were I a gambler, I might be willing to bet that the banks routinely demand a token number of manual pin code entries to avoid minor fraud. Let's face it. Anyone who has stolen a debit card and has obtained the pin code would head straight to the nearest firewood outlet. Desperate to "burn" some of their ill-gotten gains! 😷

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27.11.2020 Blinded by the sun or blind drunk?

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Friday 27th 32-41F,  a light overnight frost with a narrow band of mist across the field in front of the house. I headed towards the sun to capture some images as the mist hung in layers. Climbing up to the forest provided the best views. 

One, large bird of prey sat watching me from a tree until I almost reached it. I took exactly 500 photographs on this morning's walk, believe it or not.

It is now after lunch and I'm going for a ride. So I shall finish this later. Even now the frost is still on the grass in the shade of the house. I wrapped up well but soon had to remove one layer after a long slog uphill.

I rode a 16 mile hilly loop in an hour and half. My left knee was hurting most of the time. So I kept the revs as high as possible. The atmosphere was crystal clear to the horizon. Hardly a cloud to be seen all day. The low and brilliant sun meant I had to keep a  watchful eye out for blinded drivers.

It never pays to assume they can see me when they are already speeding into the blinding sun. The speed limit was clearly marked 60kph or 40mph but few bothered to stay under 90kph. National speed limit 50mph + 10mph is only the average in Denmark. Several national speed records have been broken by insane drivers. 

The average sentence for killing by drunken and/or drugged driving, while speeding of course, is only 1 year. So why attend to such minor details as the law when the courts are so lenient? Particularly if you can afford legal representation.

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26.11.2020 A better bit of sunshine.

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Thursday 26th 46F, milder but heavy grey overcast and early rain. Some, or a lot of sunshine, is threatened. Depending which weather "side" you favour. 

The sunshine was short-lived and between clouds. I walked up to the forest and back along the marsh. No more than six mallards visible. Not much else to report except that I was too warm on the last leg. 

It was a pleasant day, weather-wise, with a mixture of sunshine and cloud. The wind remained light.

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25.11.2020 A Chump a day keeps reality at bay.

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Wednesday 25th 40F, Still very dark at 0730 and becoming breezy. Smokey, "atmospheric" clouds to the east are gently backlit and softened by early mist. The battling meteorologists are at disagreement yet again. Sun or no sun? That is the question.

As the trees shed their leaves, new vistas and objects seem to pop into a changed reality. Appearing as if out of thin air. Leaving one to question whether reality is updated at intervals by some unseen hand. Would we even know if this were true? Time travellers could make constant changes and nobody would ever notice. Except in that dusty corner of the mind. Which constantly logs our personal filmstrip of seemingly, ephemeral but "sticky" perceptions. 

Did that road sign really, always, stand just there? No sign of earthworks to suggest recent erection. The grass and weeds around the base are no different from a thousand others. "They" wouldn't have put up an old and weathered sign anyway. How could I possibly have missed it over 25 years of frequent travel along this road? Was it waiting, in an uncertain limbo? For the very moment that it finally appeared solidly, made concrete in one of my photographs?

If reality is instantly made anew then we could never discover if something had always existed. Or whether the scenery had been subtly shifted while our attention was focused elsewhere. From that moment onwards all our memories would be instantly updated to match the changed reality.  

It was once said that a planet could be occupied by several civilisations simultaneously. Each time-shifted, out-of-phase, with each other. This would help to explain UFOs and ghosts. And may even be responsible for my noticing new objects where none had [apparently] existed before. 

Welcome to the Matrix. Choose the colour of your morning pill wisely. In my strange world all of our supposed leaders are complete idiots, narcissists, corrupt or clowns. [Select any four.]

The planet is burning hotter with each passing moment. There is an unprecedented pandemic. Running its brutal course towards massed graves and/or mass vaccination. Even after a year I still can't safely have a hair cut or eye test. Not even in the foreseeable future. Should I send for the men in white coats now? Or wait for a better, more sensible reality, to kick in? 

Time for a walk. I'm going road sign spotting. Just for a change. It was cold on my hands from the gentle breeze as I snapped away at flying birds of prey. They were being harried out of the area by assorted black birds. Themselves dark silhouettes against a tobacco filter sky. The mink gulls left on cue, as usual. The farmers were working on their field drainage. Gently dissolving into the enveloping mist at 1000 yards.

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24.11.2020 Hammer Horror remake of "Camalla and the Wicked Stepmother" goes badly awry!

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Tuesday 24th 44F, heavy overcast and rather windy. A decidedly cold wind as I walked to the lanes. The mink gulls abandoned ship on first sighting of my arrival. The traffic was very light today.

The largest manufacturers of rubber gloves in the world are shutting down production. Their dirt cheap, immigrant labour, work force has proved even more susceptible to Jinping Plague than mink. They too were trapped in small cages with no escape. 

Ironic really, because it is already, very difficult to obtain rubber gloves. The quality of the disposable/surgical gloves we have obtained is absolute crap. Barely surviving long enough to be put on for the first [and last] time. This story, during a global pandemic, reminds me of the foolish billionaires. Who routinely put their own children in the charge of the cheapest labour they can [regularly] lay their hands on.

The Hammer Horror remake of "Camalla" is still completely off the rails. The Wicked Stepmother and her Stepsisters are still insisting the glass slipper fits all three of them perfectly. While Prince Charming has been literally locked out of the palace by Ye Olde ex-King Donny Von Fuckwit. Who continues to refuse to accept that Camalla is the rightful wearer of the glass slippers. 

Meanwhile the Wicked Queen [and Stepmother] constantly screams "off with their heads" at the sight of any child with a hint of being a non-US citizen. Particularly while illegally selling matches in the snow outside The Great White House Electrified Fence.

All the while ex-King Donny simultaneously and deliberately ploughs up the White House Lawn for a Russian oil pipeline. This was in exchange for Pootin's Mafia loans to stave off imminent bankruptcy. Which would have completely ruined any chance of ex-king Donny sneaking into the White House by the back door last time around. 

Shares in McLardys crashed on the news that Prince Charming may have found a way to buy off ex-King Donny. With the immediate closure of his local, white trash, dietary outlet. By the promise of immunity from prosecution for treason. Though Donny is still on his own on the countless charges of money laundering, property racketeering and tax evasion. There are even rumours that ex-King Donny has been stashing Russian gold bars in his golf course bunkers.

It gets worse: As the White House Trash "First Family" nears compulsory eviction, Prince Charming and Camalla will face a hefty bill for redecorating. The ex-King's offspring are said to have left graffiti, empty beer cans, Coke bottles and McLardy's takeaway packaging all over the place!

They have also run up huge bills at many upmarket, designer outlets for their favourite red-neck clothing. Which posh garb was required for their frequent fancy dress balls entirely at taxpayer's expense. Where they would pretend to be Olde Money. Instead of the white trailer [mobile home] trash everybody else instantly recognised. 

"Insiders" talk of knife marks, blood and vertebral bone fragments on the desk and chairs in the Oval Office. Presumably from the daily backstabbing episodes for which "The Familiars" became rightfully infamous. Though only professional, media-cynics, moving overpriced product, would repeat the lurid stories: Of overt vampirism amongst the younger looking members of the First Family. However, their real age remains a complete unknown. Since none of them can actually lay their hands on a valid US birth certificate. Nor even a tax return apparently.

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23.11.2020 A half hour ride.

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Monday 23rd 40F, clear patches but rather dark and cloudy. I had a walk to the lanes in a cold wind. There were two pairs of deer grazing out in the huge fields. The local bird of prey left before I had a chance to take a snap of it. 

Then I had another dizzy spell. Then went for a half hour ride around the local lanes in quite a keen wind. Just to see if it helped. It didn't, but the sunshine was glorious and the distant views stunning. I spent the rest of the day wrapped up watching YT videos on the TV.

Global media analysis of the mink cull protests continues. With stories of massive over-production as new producers and investors hoped to profit from earlier, high prices. The real truth is that many Danish fur farmers were struggling economically. Prices have dropped to a third of those in 2015.

The initial demand from Asia's New Money was short lived and was five years ago. China started their own mink factories and even some of those went out of business. The same was true right across the globe. Anti-fur protests have had a serious impact. As younger buyers and fashion houses turned to fake fur to avoid public criticism. With the awful irony that some fake fur wearers were attacked in the streets. Simply because of the quality of their fake fur clothing made it look too "real."

Meanwhile, the sheer number of those attending the protests, in Denmark, is likely to lead to a massive increase in human infections. Crowds were packed together without a sign of a mask in the news images I have seen. 

The large gatherings were also illegal. Ironic and hypocritical that they were protesting about the pandemic lawmakers. No more than ten people may assemble under the Jinping Plague rules. Rules which have kept Denmark safely out of the horror headlines so far. The irony is that there is much frustration over these same rules. With genocidal psychopaths, amongst the politicooze, demanding the government go and to leave society to drop dead in vast numbers. Just as they have done elsewhere when their supposed "leaders" downplayed the risks.

The protests coincide with an animal rights group leaving small dead pigs around the capital. [Copenhagen] Their message is that, like mink, factory farming pigs, on an industrial scale, is inhumane and has countless casualties. They say that 4000 baby pigs die every day and that mistreatment in the industry is rife.

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22.11.2020 Sunshine.

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Sunday 22nd 43F, cloud and clear. More wind expected. Along with some sunshine. A walk to the lanes in bright sunshine. Several cars were parked up and hunters out on the fields. There were a surprising number of shots once they'd started. There are often only a few shots before there are no more targets. A pair of deer dashed across the field, across the lane and then on across the countryside.

The hundreds of tractors demonstrations in two of Denmark's major cities have probably led to a super-spreader event. Organisers claimed their protests were successful. The police were supposed to fine anybody driving a tractor on the road, on yellow plates, but seem to have allowed it to pass. 

The large crowds attending the demonstration failed to maintain social distancing or to wear masks. No doubt the huge cost of the tractor fuel required for such high mileages will come out of the taxpayer's pocket, as usual. 

The protests were held over the possibly illegal order for the culling of all mink. Which had proved to be highly susceptible to The Jinping Plague. A mutated form was passed back to humans including the elderly in a retirement home. The government decided the risk was far too great to allow this to continue and ordered a cull of all mink. 

One might have thought this was the safest ploy but naturally there were loud objections from the mink farmers. The contagion was spreading very rapidly southwards from a geographically remote hotspot in northern Jutland. 

Fortunately the mutation proved not to be as dangerous as feared. However the cull was ordered after that detail had already become known within closed government ministries. The minister responsible eventually resigned. 

The Danish government has been successful in containing the number of Jinping Plague deaths as much of the population followed the closure rules. The exceptions continue to cause infections and casualties as the numbers rise again.

Other countries have discovered mink's vulnerability and have handled the problem in their own ways. Denmark was the largest provider of mink skins and clothing in the world. The product was exported mostly to Japan and China and earned billions of kroner. Denmark's cool climate was claimed to be responsible for the highest quality furs.

Mink farming provided a vital income for rural areas. As smaller, agricultural units became ever more expensive to buy and increasingly uneconomical to run. Leading to ever larger land holdings with foreign investment or ownership. 

Denmark has a very high coverage of agricultural land and an increasingly poor reputation for encouraging wildlife. The former "Farmers Rule" government set back steadily improving environmental standards by decades. They were only elected on the empty promise of reducing open immigration. Having a minority, extreme right wing, party coalition didn't help.

The latest democratic party government was elected on the empty promise of combatting climate change. The minority parties are constantly pushing the coalition to do far more.

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21.11.2020 Wealthy Elysium dwellers well above the rule of law.

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Saturday 21st 41F, very dark grey and windy. I'm feeling a bit better today after another day of dizziness. It came on mid-morning and ruined anotherwise  perfect day. The Head Gardener says I have Menier's and who am I to [dare] argue? 

A walk to the lanes for some fresh air. The fresh air was moving at 30mph and carrying sheets of rain. The forecast was for dry but cloudy. <sigh> It rained and blew all day.

Several wealthy people have placed themselves well above the rule of law in today's news. Hardly any point in discussing Doolally Chump. How do you get rid of The Gilded Nutter when his crooked henchmen will destroy their "grate nation" before admitting defeat? Can you get monogrammed straitjackets for the criminally insane?

Meanwhile Evil Clown Boris kicked every, poor, bullied kid [and adult] repeatedly in the teeth with his ugly, oversized, clown's boots. By backing a committed, but decorative, career bully in his cabinet. Resulting in mass jumping of junior officers from the side of his slowly sinking ship: HMS Badly-Broxit slides inexorably beneath the waves. While on its maiden voyage and sea trials in a Europe-wide storm under another, wealthy nutter. I bet he was a prefect at his private school! You can practically smell the fear of bullied juniors on him, even from this distance.

A wealthy young Swede [20] and a self-styled raving nutter, set a new Danish Land Speed Record of 274kmh/170mph [in 90kph/55mph mixed traffic.] Sadly the Danish police couldn't confiscate his obscenely expensive car because it was registered in Sweden. Though he received an immediate, automatic ban from driving in Denmark. Which meant he had to be driven back out of the country. To continue living the high life in Elysium. The Swedes never mention wealth. It is one of their few taboo subjects. To discuss wealth would be an admission that their ridiculous delusions of equality are just that. Fabricated delusions.

Deprived of having their "Farmers Rule OK Party" in continuous power, the unbelievably wealthy, tax-free and heavily subsidised, Danish farmers are joining distant convoys, in local capitals. They are protesting at the culling of the mutated Jinping Plague mink. How do they even have the time when they are supposed to be up at 5am to milk their factory pigs? How can they possibly afford the fuel for their giant, multimillion, tractors if farming times are [always] so damned hard? They are demanding the government resign. Which sounds like treason to me. But what do I know?

All of this is despite overgenerous compensation from the taxpayer. To those who allowed their mink farms to be exposed to the Jinping Plague. That's the thing about insurance. It favours the wealthy & guilty at the expense of the masses. Whom "They" will follow to the ends of the earth for their very last kroner. While giving away countless billions to every international crook who can be coached to fill out a fake form for rubber stamping by the Danish tax office.

Then there are the WAGS. These are hideously expensive, hideously overdecorated, men's handbags. Primarily aimed, at short range, at highly vulnerable, but obscenely wealthy, male, sports personalities. Primarily intended for footballers. Though other sports are paying well over the odds to ensure lots of advertising space. 

Some of these "money bags" are getting well above their station and suing each other for libel. Entirely at impoverished, football supporter's expense, of course. Nice work if you can get it? I couldn't face myself in the mirror. Let alone spend all day and every day in front of one, in their latest, stately home.

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20.11.20 Total Technology Blindness.

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Friday 20th 32F, cold but calm and clear. Sunshine threatened.

It was a bit chilly on my hands as I headed for the lanes in bright sunshine. Only a few gulls were present. Traffic about normal.

There was a story in the Danish news about a person being denied access to a bus because he wanted to pay cash for his ticket to ride. He was elderly, perhaps in his 60s and the driver admitted the man had difficulty walking. His crime for immediate expulsion from the bus? Not having a mobile phone with a payment app.

Bozo keeps demanding I "tap the link"on my smart phone to confirm my identity. But I don't have a touch screen and "they" don't do emails.

Technology blindness is a remarkably frequent problem for [we] the elderly. I have found myself wanting in the same upgrade department: I'd go to collect a parcel from the "parcel centre." Where the pre-pubescent, supermarket, checkout operator is filling in as part time postmaster/mistress. They cannot manage the apparently simple communications tasks involved unless I have a "SMART" phone with me. I have even been sent away empty-handed by one of these 9 year-olds after a cycle ride in the rain. 

Owning an ancient Nokia "mobile" phone [normally used only for direct comms with my wife on the home landline] is insufficient to cope with modern technology. Nokia "dumb" phones cannot exchange emails for a start. The elderly bod is left feeling inadequate and frustrated because the young zombie providing "the service" assumes that literally everybody [still breathing] is permanently welded at the breastbone to a smart phone. 

On one occasion I was handed the ungainly device with which they communicated with the parcel service. Could I send them a quick SMS with my details and mail address? Could I what? I had never knowingly sent an SMS. Though, of course, I do know what they are. 

The same applies to the kind people who do the home shopping service for the vulnerable during the Jinping Plague. The pocket change they receive for this service hardly covers their costs. But I digress. 

I write clearly on our printed order at the supermarket's shopping website that I want: ABSOLUTELY NO SUBSTITUTES: [In Danish.] Yet these same shoppers still feel bound to ask: [Just in case potential malnutrition is looming in the event of their abject failure to supply.] Do I want X if Y is not available? 

Which, of course, they do by SMS. How am I to usefully respond? They do not reply to my phone call. Probably because we aren't publicly listed and who answers a hidden number? I may have still two opposed thumbs but I missed the Thursday afternoon lesson [in infant school] learning to type onto a "Smart" phone with them. Last week I learned how to type "ok" and even managed to send it via Nokia dumb phone. At the fifth attempt! I kid you not! 

BTW: I won't hear a word said against my Nokia phone. Apart from the screen being too small to read without my folding, magnifying glass. From memory it cost me £7 in a supermarket. It has never failed. The battery survives into its second decade and receptions seems universal.  Even when my wife calls me in the middle of the forest in case I have gone [inadvertently] paddling in a very deep puddle. Or the wolves have eaten me for breakfast. The terrifying "wolf" sounds later proved to be noisy deer.

I do count myself amongst the "technology assisted" by any standards of a moderately mobile septuagenarian. I have been blogging for years. Even surviving the collapse of Orange free blogger. I've been posting videos to YT for well over a decade. [Not that anybody ever watches them, but still, you get the point] I cut my teeth on a Sinclair ZX81 and later BBC B when B&W portable CRT TVs were the norm for "computer monitors". 

I worked on the periphery of computers the size of sports halls in my youth. That was back in the last century and nobody alive remembers punched cards or punched paper tape. [Except me.] 

I must be on my 5th flat screen by  now. CRT is dead. Analogue TV is dead. FM radio is dead. You need Arecibo to receive the BBC by satellite from Denmark. BBC has now broken Arecibo to stop dual license holders from watching what they have legally paid for? Bloody dictatorships! 

I can easily handle a smart camera including video in slo-mo. Or run my observatory. Aided by multiple softwares and stuffed with assorted boxes of electronic tricks. So why should I learn to type and send SMSs for that, possibly once a year. Slight off-chance of communication from another human, more gifted with their opposed digits? Thumb typing will be out of date by Wednesday of next week. You'll have to blink your retinas at 100MHz towards a holographic screen or something.

Let's be brutally honest: I am, by definition and by the highest authority, a fully paid up and approved, old fart. So, by default, I am excused SMSs and "smart" phones on the grounds of having nobody with whom to exchange said forms of communication. Can somebody please put the word around that I am not alone. There are countless millions more of us out there. All of whom suffer from the lack of being "digitally upgraded." i.e. "Un-smart."

First they got rid of bus conductors. Then the steam locomotives. Then it was natural gas. Then metric money. Then coloured TV. Then digital calculators and watches. I was an early adopter of all sorts of long forgotten detritus and mouldering landfill. It is so long since we went to The Moon that nobody believes it was real.

Vinyl, tapes or cassettes? Vinyl, Tapes or CDs? Vinyl, tapes or DVDs? Windows or IOS? GPS. Hacking "smart" fridges which don't work in cold rooms? Wireless, Blue Tooth, Telepathy? The phone boxes are gone! Now they talk to creepy Bozo's loudspeaker which answers back! Android TV and tablets, or what? 

Windows is no longer Pick'n'miXP. USB, USB2 and USB3 A,B,C &D1 2 or 3? Mini, micro and HDMI and all its offspring. Now they change the mobile phone standards every other week. So the numpties burn down the damned masts! Phones are deliberately "bricked" by the makers to improve turnover of new models. They screw with the test software for MOTs! Elon Tesla rules the world and outer space?

Where will it all end? I know, let's cut out the middle man and "chip me" now! Just in case I get lost on the way back from the empty lanes. There'll be nobody to ask the way and I can't possibly SMS for help. By the time General AI arrives I shall be well beyond its grudging aid! When the time comes. will they bury me, burn me or Beam me up!

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19.11.2020 Lies, damned lies and "IN STOCK"

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Thursday 19th 46F, grey, windy and wet. A slightly later walk to the lanes. A bird of prey came sailing over the hedge, saw me and turned around. After being sheltered by the roadside trees and hedges I reached my usual turning point away from the traffic. A small saddle in the landscape speeds the wind through there and it was no different today. 

It was just at that moment that wet hail lashed down. I dived behind a hedge but it provided little shelter. Except from the wind. There was no point in continuing where there were no hedges at all. So I returned. To find a bird of prey soaring over the local hill. Too far away and against the light for  a decent shot.

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I am thoroughly sick of Danish online companies claiming to have stock. When what they really mean is that their wholesaler, somewhere. Perhaps in China, or Germany, or Sweden, or wherever, might have some stock in a week if the fates are on their side. 

The online dealer has grabbed your order under COMPLETELY FALSE PRETENCES. Then sits on it quietly until the item becomes available. Perhaps in a few days. Perhaps in three weeks. Meanwhile, the honest and efficient dealers have lost a sale to these online crooks. 

Even when you contact the dealer after a week of silence. To ask why you didn't get the same, next day service. Which is always provided by the honest and efficient companies. Their lying website still shows: "IN STOCK!" 

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18.11.2020 What a grey day!

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Wednesday 18th 52F Wet and windy with a leaden overcast. The threatened storm has gone further north and has only affected Jutland. A later walk to the lanes. It stayed grey and windy but dry all day.

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17.11.2020 Nero Von Chump Leads Great American Die Off!

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Tuesday 17th 48F, heavy overcast, gales and rain. Just a walk to the lanes to get some fresh air. The traffic was so light on the way that it was like "last man standing." There were lorries, buses and cars as I was coming back again. I saw lots of mink gulls, two Redwings and a Goldfinch. Only a hint of rain in the air and rather breezy.

The "Danish Farmers Rule" party [and other Chump admirers] are trying to win votes and gain attention. By questioning the authority of the government to safeguard the people from The Jinping Plague Mink Mutation. Meanwhile several hundred workers at furriers are now confirmed positive. Which means a huge headache tracing contacts.

Between rounds of golf and talking utter bollocks on Infantile Twatter, Nero Von Chump is <cough> leading The Great American Die Off. The one thing we can guarantee is that he will win this year's Darwin Award for Being The World's Worst Sociopathic Liar.

Lifetime dictator [and world's richest man] Slyme "Plague" Jinping is jailing citizens who reported local conditions under his "man-made" plague. You know, the one the evil dictatorship tried to hush up until it reached the US. Leading to countless, unnecessary deaths under The Great Boaster. While China surged ahead with Slyme's plan for world domination.

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16.11.2020 Nero Von Chump plays Infantile Twatter as 1000 people die every day.

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Monday 16th 46F, gales, overcast and rain. The weather gods are really getting their revenge this morning! I promise never to question the skills of meteorologists ever again. No matter how many times they are completely wrong.  No walk again today. I have been and remain unwell.

The mentally ill, incompetent, ex-leader, of less than half of the US electorate, is playing golf and Infantile Twatter. While 1000 real people die, every day, from "no worse than flu" are rapidly approaching 250,000 dead. 

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15.11.2020 MMGA!!!: Make Meteorology GREAT Again!!!

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Sunday 15th 45-53F another leaden sky day. Cloud with sunshine later? I'll believe it when I see the sunshine! Crows are demanding free yellow glasses for night flying in daytime. They keep bumping into each other in the gloom. My German mate, Donny, says you see it all the time! So it must be true!

Okay! That does it! I'm going to start a new, protest group: MMGA!!! Make Meteorology GREAT Again!!!

I expect there will be millions of cycle helmeted [and properly masked] demonstrators in and on the streets. I will rapidly gain the status of a whining, ex-president.[Aka: Loser] With endless calls for my reinstatement as Senior Local Cycle Lane Inspector General Ist Class.[Retired.]

I shall, of golf gold course, have my vast [tax-deductible] team of ambulance chasers working around the clock to undermine question the local authority's behaviour. In sweeping the roads repeatedly onto the cycle lanes. Turning these lanes into impossible [US: impassable] moraines of filth and danger. While the roads are so clean that if you threw MacLardy's packaging on them. Instead of onto the cycle lane. Then everybody would notice and change their routes. Just to avoid the embarrassment of sharing the roads with such filth.

If we ever get snow again, in these globally heated times. We shall shovel all of the snow, which they dump onto the cycle lanes, straight back onto the roads. With full backdating!! That'll learn them! We shall have a GREAT slogan: "Rage, rage against the piling of the snow!" Dump the waste snow on the gold golf courses, I say! You know it makes no sense! 

BTW: [For Darwin Award, Chump supporters] Meteorology [m-e-t-e-o-r-o-l-o-g-y] means the study of the weather. They use high precision [Chinese] seaweed. Then stare at the sky in disbelief after they make another, bad forecast. Just like Chump did with the Jinping Plague. 

Quarter of a million dead already? That makes the terrorists look like complete amateurs. Why isn't Chump being prosecuted for genocide by endangerment? As he is so fond of saying: "Y'all don't need no goddamned masks!"<spit!> Oh, I forgot. Delusional Paranoid-schizophrenia is a solid defence. Particularly when you have unlimited funds for ambulance chasers.

PS. I must have upset the weather gods because it was already sunny at 10.00! It stayed that way for quite a while, on and off. Though the wind was blowing quite hard from the SE. Which just isn't nice!

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14.11.2020 Chump loses election because [only] his followers dropped like flies?

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Saturday 14th 43F, another grey day. The promise of some sunshine was not fulfilled yesterday. What chance it will today? I'm beginning to sound like a conspiracy theorist. Whadya mean "beginning?" 🤣

As the transporters of culled mink continue to let them fall onto the roads, the Danish police have stopped a lorry driver. It was suggested the driver was trying to export a load of culled mink over the border. To process and sell the fur as prices soar due to a perceived shortage. I hope he was more careful about securing his load that the other lot. I seriously doubt the German police would put up with a trail of squashed mink down their autobahn! 

Meanwhile mink farm owners are sending in false claims to be clear of the virus. Some are even "threatening" to move their activities to Eastern European countries. Though this assumes the host country would be willing to accept the risk and the stench.

Imagine if the Jinping Plague was even more lethal? Would their behaviour change one iota? It is widely reported that mink across the world are proving susceptible to the virus. With two-way transmission, from a mutated, virus reservoir in the remaining herds, a serious threat of a future pandemic. 

It is also reported that more wild birds have died of bird flu in Denmark. Though this strain is not a threat to human health so far.

I mustn't forget to mention Chump. Since I know my billions of avid readers are keen to hear the latest: Apparently,  he is now threatening to build A Great Wall around New York. To ensure no vaccine gets in. 

Which begs the question of how all his NY Chumps are going to save themselves from continuing self-harm. After partying late into the night without masks. Because they can! 

Would it be too much of a stretch to suggests that the majority of US deaths are only amongst [overweight] Chump supporters? i.e. Those who followed HIS expert advice on mask wearing and followed his piss-poor diet? Which, by a huge and unmissable irony, cost him the election? 

Whoops there goes his immunity from prosecution! I wonder if Chump will be allowed to gold plate the bars of his prison cell? Perhaps a small gold "T" emblazoned on the lock casing to suggest his self-importance? 😉

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13.11.2020 Lies, damned lies and US ambassadors.

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Friday 13th 46F, cloud clearing to some brightness around the edges of the leaden lid which has been
hanging over us all this week. A definite risk of sunshine this morning according both teams in the Danish Weather Competition.

A walk to the lanes in a cool breeze and under heavy skies. I disturbed the gulls as is my wont. Not much else to report. Slight mistiness added a little drama.

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The US ambassador to Denmark was lying about her vote not being recorded. As she tried to keep Oberst von Chump in power. By supporting his treasonous lies about voter fraud. Her vote was officially registered and counted. Power corrupts. Chump's negative power corrupts even ambassadors. One wonders whether she will join the stream of unemployed Chumps once Biden is finally allowed to take the reigns.

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12.11.2020 Chump wants revolving back door on The White House.

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Thursday 12th 45F, another very dark and dismal day but dry. No ill effects noticed, so far, from yesterday's 20 mile ride. The wind is picking up now it is light. Time for a walk.

Not only the wind but 200 yard mist and muddy roads had arrived. I was grateful for my hood though it didn't feel particularly cold. The mink gulls weren't happy. My name is mud in gull circles. They had all sneaked onto the roadside field overnight. To practice their social distancing, as usual. Then along comes their favourite bogey man and they all leave in a hurry!

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Honorary Oberstleutnant [Sick pass] Chump says he wants a revolving back door fitted to the White House. He claims it will smooth the exit of all the sacked "disloyal" personnel while he still pretends to be the US Deficit.

He has finally showed up in public at a [quote] "losers" war cemetery after six days hiding in the TWH TV room watching cartoons A bit late, one might have thought. After he cancelled an official visit to another "losers" war cemetery because "the light didn't suit his hair colouring" on the day. All we need now is a chest full of self-bestowed, honorary medals and the four year farce will be complete. 

Sly "The Plague" Jinping claims the Hong Kong opposition's resignation is a direct affront to his offshore bank accounts. The world's richest man has been feeling the pinch since he released his plague. It was only supposed to cripple the US. Because he knew The Chump would downplay the dangers for political gain. He knew the cynical US citizenry wouldn't bother with masks and social distancing in the name of freedom from government interference.

A few thousand Chinese "nobodies" were sacrificed to make it look like an accidental release. What Sly hadn't reckoned with was the reduction in exports to the US as Chump got the hump over tariffs. Then Sly's best buddy Bozo still couldn't cope with the online demand for cheap Chinese tat. Despite the colossal loss of US lives.

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11.11.2020 Obersturmbannführer Chump to move into a 'gated' trailer park on The White House Lawn.

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Wednesday 11th 41F, incredibly heavy overcast. 7.30 and it is only now beginning to brighten enough to see anything outside. I hear that is the excuse given by a second, Danish lorry driver. After leaving a trail of mashed mink for 25km along another major road. Road Kill noshing fans would be attending but for the closed, Danish borders.

A leaden walk to the lanes again. I was watching a Red kite through my binoculars. When three Whooper swans swanned into my field of view in tight formation. Their paths appeared to cross but without incident. I'd never seen Whooper swan until I came to Denmark. Where there are huge flocks of them around the coasts. Oddly enough, I don't remember having seen the common Mute swan over here. Which is the familiar bird seen almost everywhere in the UK.

I had to run an errand so chose to cycle rather than drive. 20 miles of hilly lanes later I returned. Going there I was fine despite the hills. Coming back I was tired and riding straight into a cold headwind. I seem to have finally lost my cycling fitness. Not quite back to non-cyclists levels but disappointing on the return leg. I'd need to do more 10s before taking on 20 miles rides or more.

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Honorary Obersturmbannführer Chump [Retired sick] says he's feeling uncomfortable in the Oval Office of late. Probably the result of having recovered so quickly from the Sly Jinping Plague. [All thanks to a swift dose of the private stash of the antidote from his best, bosom buddy, Sly Jinping] 

So Chump's going to have a gold plated trailer [mobile home] placed outside the White House at tax-deductible, taxpayer's expense. He says he'll be more comfortable in familiar [white trash] surroundings. Where he can sit and drink beer all night with his sycophantic buddies at the top of the Re-publican, Party Animal, Private Members Club. Plus his hand-picked extremists amongst the Appeal Court, ambulance chasers to make up the numbers. [As they go along.]

Pootin, Sly and Fat Baby Kim have all promised to come around. To watch Chump's Greatest Speeches on his big, outdoor TV. There will be trafficked, East European, pole dancers and strippers laid on, of course. [Care of Pootin] While a golf driving range will provide useful exercise in trying to break the bullet proof, White House windows. 

A private, MacLardy's drive-through restaurant. Specially designed for his widened, gold-plated, golf carts, will be a major feature. Though Fat Kim's taste for chomping down on human babies is unlikely to be catered for. Not unless he imports a few under the guise of diplomatic papers and slips them in by the back door. 

Kimmy Baby says he's tried South American babies. Which were separated from their raped mothers by US Border Patrol Officers. They just don't taste the same as his regular Asian diet. Consisting of the offspring of raped, NK, political prisoners. Fresh from his private, breeding gulags. 

Well, he wouldn't eat frozen babies, would he? He is far too self-important to lower himself to that level. At least according my inside sources at the NSA. Perhaps he just needs to borrow more of Chump's ketchup? He can hardly refuse his best, bosom buddy, can he?

I was just reading that most victims of the Jinping Plague suffer from mental problems within 90 days. Well that's my excuse, anyway. It only took me 8 long months to get around to it. After having those strange flu-like symptoms back in the spring. I haven't smelt the same way since!

Anybody for whopping great, Max Mink Burgers? With the finest, deep Mink grease fried, fries? We're calling it Vanity Fare.

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10.11.2020 The free Brexiteers.

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Tuesday 10th 42F, another long, grey day in prospect. There wasn't a glimpse of the sun yesterday.

A walk to the lanes in a thin, cold, south-easterly wind. A tractor sprayed the fields as the wind roared in my deaf ears. 

Gulls took one look at me and decided I was bent on gull world domination. So off they went to huddle with the others further away. Jackdaw sentries rose from their treetop lookouts. Then soared off to guard their territory somewhere else.

Flocks of mixed finches moved nervously around the neighbourhood trees and hedges. While sparrows chattered excitedly at the latest new from the US election front lines. I saw a robin yesterday. An unremarkable event anywhere else. Here they are rare and very shy. Robins in our last garden, back in the UK, fed from our hands.

As a UK citizen I have been made aware of distant Brexit arrangements causing trouble. We shall all have to apply for residence permits next year regardless of our present status or length of stay. I was approved for unlimited residence 25 years ago.

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9.11.2020 100% of "the electorate" in dictatorships are unrepresented.

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Monday 9th 46F, heavy overcast with a light SE breeze. A grey day in prospect with only a glimpse of sunshine promised. 

A late walk to the lanes under leaden skies with a chill breeze on my bare hands. I saw several [distant] birds of prey. One bird took off on my arrival and flew to the far horizon. It then returned, flew past me and onto the opposite horizon. 

Birds make such distances seem unimportant. "As the crow flies," carries a lot of useful information if you only pause to think about it.

  

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If 50% of the electorate in many democracies are unrepresented. Then 100% of the downtrodden in all dictatorships are slaves to the whim of a raving nutter. Evil, small-minded men, like Jinping, Putin, Kim, Erdogan. And all the other, nameless brutes. Who inherited the toxic, Soviet Rust Belt, Africa, Arabia and South America by means of corruption.

The laziest and worst, half-ex-president in history is locking himself into the White House TV room to watch cartoons for two more months. As his armies of taxpayer-subsidised, ambulance chasers prepare expensive and pointless appeals. Raging against The Chump having lost the US election advertising and tragi-comedy show. 

For the next two months the laziest and worst half-ex-president in history will watch TV and play golf. While he attempts to delay Biden's resurrection of the US and the entire world. Only dictator's need fear the change.

Those who can, do. Chump lied for four years about being only half in charge of only half of the US electorate. Instead of being the wise, humble and inspired leader of the entire world. His choice, because he is also a small minded thug with delusions of grandeur. A perfect example of a working class slob. With a foul mouth and no manners. He can still fool half of the [US] people all of the time [allegedly.] It came that close to losing the entire world to another corrupt and raving nutter for four more years of corruption.

We weren't offered a vote to end The Chump's corrupt leadership of our sinking ship. Fortunately there were over 50% in the USS. Willing to mutiny against this particularly nasty piece of work. We owe them a great debt. For freeing us from the tyranny of drooling idiocy and madness!

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8.11.2020 Lorry driver scatters "infected" mink corpses down the Danish motorway.

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Sunday 8th 35F, a bright start after a much cooler night. Though without a frost. The promised thick fog never happened. There was the slightest hint of patchy mist as I walked to the lanes. Two disease carriers left their vapour trails overhead. If a plane crashed would you need a hazmat suit to rescue the dead and dying? 

Talking of which: Yesterday's Barnacle goose was missing this morning. Though somebody had kindly donated a dirty surgical mask to the asphalt. Infected? Who knows. Hopefully no escaped mink will see it as a comfort blanket for their breeding nest.

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Lastbil taber døde mink på motorvej - chauffør sigtes - TV 2

Every chain has its weakest link. Deliberately employ weak links [usually cheap labour to save the bosses extra money for a better car or house] and shit happens. A lorry carrying [allegedly] dangerously infected mink scattered the corpses all down a Danish motorway. Requiring the motorway be closed off for hours while all the bodies are recovered by suitably dressed labour. Or so one hopes before the local wildlife got to them????

Were they using slave labour lorry drivers? Trafficked from the other side of the world on false pretences. Promises of real jobs in Denmark. Then these drivers are "housed" on the bare floor of a handy shipping container. While they work illegally long hours for only their "food and lodgings." But only by real Danish, sociopathic, lorry transport fleet owners, of course.  

The unions are constantly having to check national prestige, building sites. Or there would be trafficked, foreign building workers lying on the bare floors every night. Resting briefly between working illegally long hours for mere pence per hour. Their passports confiscated by their building mafia handlers to ensure compliance. 

Most prostitutes are "working" for nothing in Denmark and in a similar position. Complain and they are sent back on the next plane to Eastern Europe. Care of uncaring government workers. To be welcomed back by their sociopathic handlers. Before returning in the next shipping container heading west. Or, if they can "disappear" somehow, their families are butchered back at home. Just to show who's boss.

Are Danish pig farmer's employing cheap foreign labour? Of course! The meat processing plants are also stuffed with cheap, foreign labour. Many went down with the Jinping Plague. Because their "employers" did not protect them from infection at work. Meanwhile their cheap labour is all stuffed into tiny, piss/poor accommodation when they aren't working. Your food is safe with their vast budget advertising, global monopolies? Yeah, right! 

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It sounds as if the white trash family dossing in the White House TV room is about to be evicted. No doubt they will use their tame "ambulance chasers" to prolong the agony. 

Can the NSA keep the new president-elect alive long enough to start the long, healing process? Or will the gap-toothed, Republican rednecks start breaking the furniture immediately?

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7.11.2020 Goose spotting.

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Saturday 7th 50F, heavy overcast. Sunshine promised for later. It was sightly cold on my hands as I walked to the lane. I could hear gunfire, shouting and dogs barking out on the fields but saw no sign of the hunters. A couple of vintage cars passed.

Further on a goose was standing on the verge close to the hedge. I took its photograph but kept my distance to avoid alarming the bird. Having it dash into the road would not be a good idea. My guess would be a Barnacle goose given its black breast and other markings.

It was still there on my return. Repeatedly shaking its head. The forecast was for thick fog overnight. Perhaps the goose had collided with the roadside trees or even a vehicle. It might have been stunned and would recover eventually. Or, perhaps it was simply exhausted from a long flight and would recover after a rest and nibbling some grass. As it was standing, rather than lying down, I thought it best to leave it to its own devices. There is also the risk of disease had I tried to handle it. What was I supposed to do? Carry it home under my arm?

 

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6.11.2020 Mink cull going ahead.

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Friday 6th 51F, heavy overcast but calm. A pleasant, autumnal day with sunshine and mild temperatures is promised. A walk to the village in occasional sunshine as the overcast began to break up. Lots of birds about today. 

An update on the mink virus mutation. World experts are suggesting that Denmark either hasn't shared the gene data quickly enough or are over-reacting. Given the appalling numbers of infections elsewhere I prefer the Danish attitude in putting people's safety first.

The 17 million mink to be culled should be destroyed within a few days according to those responsible. Compensation is still being argued over. Denmark was the largest supplier of mink to the world. The majority going to Japan and China. Vanity, vanity, all is vanity.

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5.11.2020 Global genocide by muck spreader?

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Thursday 5th 46-52F. Dull, cloudy and breezy and expected to continue that way. I walked the "wrong way" today for a change of scenery. The Far Woods beckoned but large raindrops started falling and increased steadily. 

Fortunately I had chosen to wear my winter rain jacket out of respect for the temperature and wind. So I continued to a suitable halfway point before turning back. My 'fleece' trousers were already soaking wet, from the knees down, by then.

Avoiding intercontinental lorry, tyre spray became a bit of a chore on the return journey. There is not always enough width on the verge to distance myself adequately. I turn my back to the road but it isn't remotely pleasant to be sprayed by filth from head to toe!

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The Danish news is that the mink-mutated, Jinping Plague has already spread to a retirement home. The cull of all Danish mink is expected to start immediately. Restrictions on movement are expected in the area worst affected in North Jutland. With the cull taking at least a month things are looking bleak.

No doubt some fur-brained, "wildlife activist" is already planning a major release into the wild to "save" the "poor little furry animals" from mass slaughter. Where the vicious creatures will cause mayhem amongst the indigenous birds and mammals. Not to mention spreading the mutated virus uncontrollably. 

The "authorities" couldn't even organise the original culling properly. There was no container storage laid on as the ink bodies piled up in huge mounds on the bare ground. No doubt to be picked over by the gulls and rats. So don't expect a quick, clean and safe destruction of tens of millions more. The mink bodies will be burnt in refuse and district heating incinerators.

How will they clean the filthy, mink farm buildings? Burn them down? Send the virus into an aerosol cloud? To spread far and wide? Isn't that an even greater risk than leaving the farm to rot down over decades? No doubt they will use a toxic spray which has been banned for decades in the EU. The drinking water has contained illegal toxins for years but still hasn't been attended to.

There is still the obvious risk of spreading the mutated virus via the vast flocks of "mink gulls." There is also the matter of muck spreading the mink farm's vast, "waste" storage tanks onto open fields. There is even a trade in animal waste. With huge tankers running back and forth. 

Has anybody [sensible] really thought this through? Am I safe to go for my morning walk in the countryside this morning? I am still feeling unwell this morning. Days after my last, longer walk in the countryside.

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Violent unrest has already broken out in the USA. Where heavily armed and jackbooted zombies are angry about their banana republic dictator [and cult leader] losing their election. You really haven't seen ugly yet! 

Mutated Jinping Plague + Chump Uprising + x = 0?

Where, or when, can we expect the "triple whammy" which brings down "God's own Elysium?" Major Californian earthquake? Supervolcano? Tsunami? US Civil Wars 2 & 3? [Dictator's Tax-free Cuts] Or, Slymo Jinping achieves world domination by releasing his Plague? To last for dystopian centuries of corruption. [Dictator's 90% Cut of the profits.]

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4.11.2020 All Danish mink to be slaughtered because of virus mutation.

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Wednesday 4th 45F, rather cloudy with a light SW wind. Early cloud cleared to overwhelmingly blue. It remained mostly sunny for the rest of the day.

Too early to say if I have recovered from my strange symptoms. [Possible agricultural toxins during an hour and half walk close to the fields.]  Headaches, dizziness, tiredness and a strange sense of being unable to inhale. My painful knee keeps coming and going without obvious cause. 

A walk to the lanes. Where a solitary pheasant spotted me too soon to capture a likeness. The gales had stripped many of the trees with a few, gorgeous exceptions.

I have been off the trike because of the weather. No cough but a few more aches and pains than usual. Probably due to domestic weight lifting. Handling lots of 10kg bags of fuel for the stove. Plus a new bath to be manhandled and plumbed in. When the last one rusted away after only 20 years. 

A heat pump would be nice to replace the stove but there is no incentive to do so from an economics point of view. The cost of the few wood briquettes we use is very low indeed. Our heating season is usually only a few short months thanks to global warming. Paying for heavily taxed electricity, on top of thousands for the heat pump, would be a financial burden we simply cannot afford. 

The government wants to phase out older wood stoves but has not taken direct action against their owners. Only when a house is sold must an older stove be replaced by law. Which means decades to replace most of them! There are serious health issues to wood burning. With many suffering and dying early from inhaling the dust particles.

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The arguments within the Danish coalition, over the target for numbers of "green" vehicles, continue. There is now talk of 700,000 electric cars by 2030. The electioneers promised 1 million eVs without doing the maths. Then downgraded the target to 500,000 being just about affordable to the taxpayer in subsidies and/or skewed vehicle taxation. I suspect more stick than carrot will follow if the numbers fall badly short of forecasts. The poorest owners, with their dirty old cars, will be penalised first. It was ever thus.

Now the token 2030 figure is pushed back up again but still depends on many factors. Like having truly affordable eVs for ordinary working people to buy. Not everybody needs a Tesla let alone can afford one. There is no existing market for secondhand electric cars. Which would have to form the vast bulk of all electric vehicle purchases.

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It has been confirmed that Danish mink have developed a mutated form of Coronavirus which has passed back to 12 people. The mutation increases the risk that any future vaccine could be made worthless by the mutation. This could affect the entire world if the mutated virus escaped into the genral population.

The government has decided that this is so serious a risk that every mink in Denmark is to be put down. They had already been putting down mink at infected farms. The virus had been spreading rapidly through the mink farms. Particularly in the north of Jutland, at first, but heading south and east. 

We must hope that no mink will be hidden by misguided mink farmers or by unregistered breeders. Some farmers were refusing to allow the police and government culling workers access. Mnay farms represent several generations of breeders. It seems unlikely that mink farming will be allowed again for quite possibly decades. The government has promised compensation for the mink farmer's losses.

There is already a scientific study into the wild birds which associate with mink farms. I have previously mentioned the vast flocks of gulls which collect around many [if not all] mink farms. 

They seem attracted at the morning feeding times. When great clouds of birds circle above the farms. Though whether there is close contact between the birds and animals I cannot say. It would be foolish for the mink farmers to waste valuable funds and profits on feeding the gulls accidentally. So why would so many gulls congregate there so often?  I have often taken photographs of the mink clouds and have called them "mink gulls" for years. The image shows a typical scene taken on a morning walk.

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3rd November 2020 Where were the real MIBs when the cosplay Chump showed up?

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Tuesday 3rd 48-53F. Windy but with clear patches between the clouds. The wind is highly variable. Going from trees bending to almost complete calm. A brisk walk to the lanes and back. Hundreds of gulls circled over the mink farm. 

12.00 The morning turned very cloudy until nearly lunch time. Now I am feeling unwell again. Headaches, dizziness and shortness of breath. I think I must have been poisoned on my walk around the fields yesterday. There is nothing else I have been exposed to that I know of.

One in four of those infected with the Jinping Plague has a non-Danish country of origin. Yet they represent only 9% of the Danish population.

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Today, the US electorate decides the future of mankind. Do we get the same aggressive, unstable, deluded, territorial Neanderthal ? But further reinforced in his role by his dumb followers? Or just more of the same-old, same-old, Establishment corruption? Answers on a voting ballot form to Gotham City Mayor's Office.

One can almost understand the US citizens desperate desire for change back in 2016. No superhero had stepped forward to cure America's deep-seated ills. The token black leader had promised The Earth but had failed to provide the necessary sea change. Not helped by the lack of a majority elsewhere.

So a new, self-styled alien presented himself as the endlessly recycled, comic book saviour. All they really got was a very lopsided, totally corrupt, deranged sociopath. Whose only recognisable human trait was an extremely unlikely hairstyle and colour. Their new, ersatz superhero soon proved to be seriously flawed. More of your insane and seriously abused Joker. Than the equally tormented, Caped Crusader.

He obviously saw himself in a completely different light to the cruel, uncaring, overtly vicious ape which I saw. He who repeatedly trumpled [sic] on the weak, sick and defenceless as if they were mere extras in his equally vicious, TV series. They should really have seen that one coming as a dress rehearsal. What if he was ever to gain power over real human beings? It seems many Americans are as obsessed with seriously flawed slebs. As are others of their equally flawed royalty elsewhere.

I knew little to nothing of The Chump who had appeared almost out of nowhere. But rapidly developed an overpowering loathing. One which made it completely impossible for me to listen to him spout his deluded, hate speech, drivel. Or to watch the hideous creature slime all over the surrealistic movie set. Which suddenly dominated the TV and online news. 

Why could nobody else see The Predator in his terrifyingly ridiculous, Walmart cereal packet, cosplay, office suit? Where were the MIBs, with their shiny zap guns? Ready to match every possible alien threat? No matter how hideous the badly concealed, baby-munching creature. Squelching horribly beneath their unlikely and bloated disguise!

The Chump Predator was something hideously alien. The lead creature out of an unbelievably nasty, cheap and just plain bad, horror, B-movie. One which will go down in history as the worst movie ever made. With by far the the worst cast ever. Though the weird creature kept killing them off almost as fast as he appointed them. 

What made The Chump, alien invasion worse, for me, was the horde of loyal, zombie followers. All ready and willing to build the new concentration camps at the behest of their "Grate" Leader. There were  literally millions who could not see through the sick, evil clown's mask. To the revolting and slimy alien beneath the hideously ugly facade. 

Natural justice will find him in front of a string of judges if he loses his immunity as the Head US mafia boss. No doubt his cohorts will claim they "were only following orders" before their sentencing. Chump's one, last, great failure must surely be not reaching a nice, round 250,000 dead before the election. So close, but no cigar! This must surely be a huge disappointment for Chump. He doesn't like cemeteries full of "losers."   

If I keep on like this the CIA will be accusing me of being an Iranian with Russian ancestry. 🤣

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2nd November 2020 Thinning out the weeds?

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Monday 2nd 60F. Mild, with gales and a heavy overcast. The promised storm is reduced to a windy day. 18ms gusts are expected for many of today's daylight hours. That's about 40mph.

It was certainly windy but not as bad as I had feared. A longer walk today in fleeting, fast moving showers. Past the marsh pond. Where only a couple of dozen, visible ducks retreated upon my arrival. Onwards by the damp and muddy track which circumnavigates the marsh trees in their soggy hollow. 

Two birds of prey took off unexpectedly. Though my rushed attempts to snap them were not sharp enough to share. And so on, along the windswept borders of the forest proper. Where fragile conifers shelter behind great oaks. Willows invade the dampest bits. Heavily punctuated by competitive birches. The strip of maize provides a sticky thoroughfare. For that rarest of rural walkers. Or the very occasional, weekend shooting match against unarmed wildlife.

We live in strange times. The experts are calculating the huge number of unnecessary deaths and infections caused by one presidential candidate's massed rallies. How do you re-elect the most dangerous threat facing American democracy? Not to mention the entire world as we know it. 

Dunno. Better ask them. The rest of the world wasn't given a vote in the thermal destruction of their only home. All for the personal, tax-free profit and entertainment of the 1% and their deluded/retarded, heavily-indebted puppet.

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1st November 2020 Is fleeting sunshine a "glistering?"

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Sunday 1st November 50F. Heavy grey overcast and becoming breezy. There were only a few, fleeting glimpses of the sun on my walk to the lanes. 

Where I disturbed the breakfasting gulls on the roadside field. The crop there is still low and sparse. Allowing easier access to the bare ground between the plants. Elsewhere the "sward" is far better developed. Making foraging far more difficult. 

A rare, dog walker passed me going the opposite way. He seemed to ignore my cheerful greeting as his dog crossed the road on a very long leash. I had already taken to the opposite verge to avoid the risk of conflict. The golden foliage of the autumnal trees held my main attention as I snapped away.

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