UK Deporting Grandmother, and Marine Argonauts

Jeanne Villepreux-Power,
photographed in 1861 by
André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

Orangettes from yesterday still not quite dry and crystallised, so placed in oven on defrost setting for a couple of hours - getting ther gradually. I think it is just slow sugar crystallisation. Continued to edit. review and correct videos today in between other things. Cooked a chicken breast lunch.

Camilla sourdough taken out of fridge to feed. Half of the starter used for a new loaf around lunchtime.  Allowed to rise till about 7pm, knocked back and then put in bread tin, covered with a bit of oil and cling-film. Hopefully, it will not climb our of the tin overnight.

Catching up with the news in this weeks New Scientist, particularly interested in two stories.

One, the nine viruses of the possible apocalypse. These were Lassa Fever, Nipah, Rift Valley Fever, SARS, MERS and related coronaviruses, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, Chikungunya, Zika, "Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome' and A. N. Others that may unexpectedly arise. The worrying thing is that there is little defence against viruses, apart from vaccines - which are not available in the mass required for epidemics. We were very fortunate that the rapidly evolving/mutating Ebola was contained at the time.

The other story was about Jeanne Villepreux-Power, who became a naturalist when moving to Sicily. She is famous for discovering that the shelled octopus species from the group of the Argonauts made their own shells. Where the scientific debate at the time (1830s) was whether these octupuses made their own shells or scavenged them, Jeanne saw that no-one had actually done any experiments or observation. She invented the aquarium as part of her work, though others have been credited in the past. patiently studying an argonaut with a damaged shell, she saw it repair the shell using secretions from two of its arms. (Wikipedia & New Scientist No. 3114)

Tomorrows Telegraph to have an article that Theresa May is set to announce the end of free movement for new EU migrants when she formally starts Brexit negotiations.

A sign of the compassionate way in which immigration issues will be dealt with can be seen in the story of a Grandmother. Originally from Singapore, Irene Clennell lived in Scotland with her British Husband for 27 years, having two children. Yesterday, she was deported at short notice without the chance to pack clothes, only GBP12 in her pocket and no-where to stay when she arrives back in Singapore. More details here http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/grandmother-irene-clennell-deported-uk-27-years_uk_58b3509fe4b0780bac2a517e.