A pair of young ones

oday the baby birds are sleeping a lot. They hang around and fall asleep (eyes shut) in numerous places, waiting for the next meal.

The other night we caught them sleeping and staying overnight at the windows. We don’t mind. They need safety and this place is quite safe for them (unlike construction sites).

The baby birds (two of them) don’t have names yet. If they stick around long enough, they probably will need names (it makes communications about them easier).

We have a problem

eptember ends tomorrow and today it’s mild. It’ll be 20 or 21 degrees at night (tomorrow) and 23 degrees today (daytime).

This is not how it used to be. September can still be warm, but we’re now at the end of September.

The media treats climate change like it’s old news or some boring topic.

Bad for the planet

here are just 30 hours left before this month’s last day and the latest weather forecast predicts temperatures over 20 for October.

This latest year has been unseasonably warm in summer and there’s no reason to suspect that will stop given the growing pollution levels and unwillingness to curb emissions.

People who live in already-hot countries will suffer more, but extreme colds are another phenomenon.

I am not seeing much press coverage about climate change anymore.

Beefing up the animals

recently added several more birds to the feeding cycle, especially young ones. We must nourish them for autumn, then winter. Sometimes they hang around me when I sunbathe, so I can’t say “no”. They are demanding.

We’ve stocked up enough food for them to last until Christmas. Same for the fish, as all new fish are doing OK, I hope for 12 months to come (like the last time). The critical period passed for environmental adaptation and they have a lot of food.

Put away the gadgets

‘ve noticed that About Manchester published this quote ysterday: “Trees will play an increasingly important role in helping our cities adapt to a hotter climate. Having just experienced one of the hottest summers on record, we have all felt first-hand the importance of trees and their cooling effect and benefit to cities, plus they make places feel more beautiful. During Mayfield’s life over the past 300 years, a tree has never been planted in this part of town. It’s always been an incredibly busy, industrial part of the area. Mayfield is about transforming a part of Manchester that was once overlooked and largely inaccessible into a vibrant green place where people and nature can thrive alongside one another. Having seen for many years how much people love Mayfield Park, we’re delighted today to be extending it to be even bigger. Part of that growth is the rehoming and redesigning of The Intelligent Garden. It’s a natural fit for that vision, bringing together nature, technology and design to explore how our urban landscapes can respond to the challenges of climate change.”

But technology isn’t needed there. The article seems to be promoting gadgets, i.e. part of the core problem.

think it was in May of this year (early or mid May) that we ‘branched out’ the fish tank to another one, a shells-dedicated tank. It has since then expanded to a much bigger tank, which I found discounted by about 96% (lower than RRP), it just needed a lot of cleaning and sanitising. Today, two weeks after we added some danios and testas, we can easily see they have grown and have become accustomed to their new environment. We initially had a couple of cardinals, but they could not survive the conditions, I’m not sure why (maybe pH level, but probably something else; size could be a factor, they are very fine). Unlike last year, no fish just mysteriously ‘vanished’.

At the moment I am chasing a heater, as noted some months ago, and look for something that costs a pound or a couple of pounds. I saw about 4 in-water heater this past Sunday (a vendor I know and knows me too), but those were too powerful and way too expensive. We still have some time to go before it gets too cold for tropical fish.

Maybe we can crowdfund this.

What will we as individuals do about it?

t’s another weekend and next weekend will be the month’s last. It is autumn now. Europe is having torrential rain, Spain has floods, and the rain here barely stops (for more than an hour or two). That’s the sort of rain we needed in July and August but seldom saw.

Climate change is annoying. What annoys me more is the lack of press coverage about it or how scarcely this term is mentioned when covering floods/avalanches, for instance.

I do my best to write and relay news about it. Keeping it in the public mind/awareness is very important.

We’ve lessened our power bills to the point where they’re below 70 pounds a month. We garden.