Suddenly I have 14 minutes till midnight. It doesn’t really matter because I can get back on course, but it always seems better if I can manage one a day. There may be no photos.
Yesterday I forgot to tell you that we had Sahara dust on the car. It’s nice to know we are part of a worldwide weather phenomenon. By today it had washed off.
It was another early morning as I am back driving and took Julia to wood turning. It took us ten minutes to get there, then I had to join the queue of traffic to get back. That took half an hour. It’s road design and tidal flow. I have to pass the big school complex on the way back, and quite a few people are also going to work a the enterprise park next to us. It annoys me as there is no real alternative. There are alternatives, but one is often gridlocked and the other involves driving ten miles out of my way. Pleasanter, but pointless.
She returned bearing a nice turned pen stand to go with the pen she did for Number One Son’s birthday, and a piece of wood that might make an unseasonal snowman or a strangely shaped vase. Some times the tools do their own thing . . .
I was more productive today and am finally regaining control over my life, which has been a sorry affair for the first two months of the year, with constant infections.
I also forgot to tell you I had a broken injector pen at the weekend. I pushed it, it clicked, the needle seemed to go home, then nothing . . . (You are supposed to here a return click when it finishes). So I pushed it again. It was quite painful and felt a little jagged, though I think that was just imagination. Then it clicked to signal it had finished, which was a relief.
I may or may not have sent you this HCN article before, but if not, it is an excellent read on research that was done regarding dust, its migration around the globe and ramifications of that.
https://www.hcn.org/issues/46-22/the-dust-detectives/
I never knew there was so much science to it, or that there was so much to know. Very interesting, and very worrying at the same time.
And that article was from 2014. It was a memorable one. Things have become much more complicated.
It seems to be the way – everything accelerating away from us at a great rate.
Oh Dear. How often do you get Sahara dust.
According to the Met Office we get it several times a year. I haven’t noticed it taht much and was thinking it must be once every five years or something. It relies on sandstorms to whip it up, wind from the south to deliver it, and rain to wash it down.
In the fens we have Fen Blows – dry soil, flat fields, high winds. Quite impressive but destructive to crops and the landscape.
We don’t seem to have got the dust yet but the wind is blowing so strongly that it may get up here.
It wasn’t an impressive amount of dust – the reports may have exaggerated the situation.
We haven’t seen any sign of Sahara dust. That faulty pen was a pain
It’s the first faulty one in about 300. so it could be worse. :-). I suppose the dust could have come in at an angle.