Such good weather and sunny evenings lately.

It could be if it is gut microbiome research.

Then the toilet is the source of all knowledge.

Is this strike in a Paris library the first to improve indoor air quality? Most interesting because no one in Britain seems to have hear about indoor air quality yet.

Screenshot of the google translated article in English.
www.revolutionpermanente.fr/Maux-de-tete...

Key findings:

More advanced liver cirrhosis and acute liver failure = higher Enterococcus in the gut.

In order of severity:
Healthy = Healthy controls.
Stable= Stable cirrhosis.
Decomp = Decompensated cirrhosis.
ACLF = Acute-on-chronic liver failure.

Potato the cat keeping me company while I'm resting.

One of my sansevieria plants is growing flower buds. Drops of nectar form under the flower buds before they open.

Experts: "Public health is political."

*politicization of public health*

Politicians: "I can do public health now?"

Experts:

First snow of the winter falling this evening.

A new fragrant orchid. Oncidium Katrin Zoch. Fragrance is difficult to describe but the flowers smell something a bit like sweets or chocolate.

This Pilea peperomioides keeps getting taller. Now relying on a bamboo cane to hold it up.

This is the first year that my little olive tree in the back yard has actually produced some olives. I don't know whether there is much flesh on these olives as they are quite small. Perhaps enough to make a teaspoon of olive oil.

Good to see so many cows grazing now up in the Yorkshire Dales.

Thanksgiving cactus flowers opening this week.

I think the degree to which we remember and commemorate terrible events and disasters is the degree to which we can give meaning to them afterwards. We purposely forget pandemics because they are just random death and suffering without meaning. It upsets our minds to dwell on such things.

Watching a couple of goldfinches outside the kitchen window today. I left the dead knapweed seed heads on from last autumn and they seem to be enjoying them. I don't think there can be any seeds left in them so perhaps they are eating bugs hiding in there.

My new amaryllis bulb. Planted on the 16th of November it is really starting to grow rapidly now.