3.02.2022 Rain.

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 Thursday 3rd 40-43F, dark grey overcast, misty and raining hard.

 10.00 No walk so far. 

I went after morning coffee instead. It rained steadily so my jacket was wet on the outside. Warm and dry inside. I wore my man made, waterproof trousers just for a change. They proved to be wet with condensation on the inside on my return after 40 minutes. So much for breathable material! That said, my walking trousers were not wet and would have been. Had they been exposed.

 Later I was shopping in the car, still in the rain. Very few people were wearing masks today.  

 There were huge clouds of rooks all mixed up with gulls on a roadside field. The combination of vast numbers of jet black birds with snow white looked strangely untidy! I can't remember ever having seen these two types of birds mingling so thoroughly. The gulls were mostly on the ground and didn't seem too bothered about the aerial invasion. Presumably the rooks are pairing off for the breeding season. I couldn't stop to watch their antics because of the traffic. They were there yesterday while I traveling the opposite way.

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2.02.2022 Commons Party Clown takes crate of crowned beer glasses to Ukraine.

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Wednesday 2nd Feb 38F, almost clear with lots of sunshine promised. SA band of cloud is crossing to the south. The trees are rocking in the wind. So it will feel much colder than the thermometer might suggest.

 Cloud soon arrived to spoil the show. Not completely but enough to hide the sun. The birds seemed far more active yesterday. With some singing for the first time this year. Today they were just foraging and making alarm calls. When I went out in the car yesterday there were huge flocks of rooks and Fieldfares out on the fields.

Two deer were making their way across a field some three hundred yards away. They reached a copse and disappeared. It was much more pleasant walking with the wind than across it.

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The Commons Party Clown is taking a crate of his trademark beer glasses. With etched crowns. As a gift to the Ukrainian people. I just hope they have enough booze to keep his glass filled right through the coming parties official celebrations. Tsar Pootin 'The Awful' must be relieved Ukraine's visitor wasn't anybody important.

  EU corruption is still trying to make Pootin's weaponized farts smell green.

 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60229199

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1st February 2022 Freedom to catch Covid from today.

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 Tuesday 1st Feb 35F, heavy overcast. With rain forecast for all day. I have to take back some rotten/mouldy fruit to the supermarket a few miles away. At least two supermarket chains were selling mouldy/rotten organic clementines yesterday.  I had to dash off from the checkout to quickly find a replacement for one obviously rotten bag full. Only to discover that the bag I had taken was completely mouldy/rotten when I got home. 

That's the problem with living in a country where there is no detectable consumer protection. Not even for the thousands of Danes. Who had their pensions stolen  by swindlers on the government's, own <cough> "secure," online, payments system.

 Grey and breezy, at first. It started raining at halfway on my walk to the lanes. No that it mattered to me in my recently reproofed, winter coat. Three deer broke cover from a distant hedge. Then ran uphill, diagonally across the prairie. Probably some 800 meters in all. They paused to look back just before entering the forest. Meanwhile a bird of prey sat bemused throughout the whole drama. It was sitting slightly to the left of their route. So in no danger of being trampled.

 Denmark is freed of most Covid restrictions from today despite soaring levels of positive tests. THis doesn't mean that it has gone for good. Just that it is no longer considered a national, survival critical pandemic. I shall continue to wear a mask. Who knows how new mutations will affect people in the long term? 

 What will the overpaid, brain dead, anti-vax "influencers" make their dirty money from now? Probably get paid for downplaying the dangers of oil and coal to climate change. Probably much too late to make a quick buck from downplaying tobacco. Though there's always artificial tobacco products to promote. For a nice, big, fat backhander from the tax-free classes.  

 I returned the rotten/mouldy fruit to the supermarket. Where the staff member would not give me a refund because I did not have my receipt. I had changed jackets because of the rainy weather today. I persevered and the overtly racist, checkout operator put the coins in the tray. Just as she has done in all the years I have been shopping there. 

She always slides the fence across. So I have to go right around the belt just to reach my shopping. Even when nobody else is anywhere near the checkouts. My receipt is always placed in the money tray. Unlike every other customer. Where nothing is ever too much trouble and she smiles and hands them their change and receipt. 

 I just checked the independent, online, customer rating website. To discover that this supermarket chain is very badly scored and has quite a number of racism accusations. They must be specially breeding their staff to get such a low score!

 Thought for the day: What is the value of any "justice system?" Where, if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it!

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