1 Year Till Brexit Day. Keeping Birds Out of the Attic

Waiting for Brexit?

One year to go to Brexit Day on 29th May 2019, when we enter The Transition. The BBC news was full of reports on the consequences so far and opinions on panels of guests. Unsurprisingly, there was an even balance of companies benefiting from Brexit and others not; of Remainers and Brexiteers still broadly sticking with their opinions.

What did emerge was that most people still think Brexit is now the way forward, in some form or another. Panelists believd that the EU was currently on top in negotiations and that if brexit negotiations failed, the fault was more likely to be seen to lie with the UK.

Russia has responded to the latest expulsions of its diplomats with a counter-expulsion of 60 US diplomats from St Petersburg.

Today's own battle was our house v the Starlings. We heard the ominous noise of birds in the attic today. The tiles just above the boiler chimney leave a gap just large enough for a bird to enter. Several years ago, I tried stuffing it with foil. That probably lasted a week. Last year, wire mesh was tightly tucked into the apertures. They eventually got pulled out. This year, with the help of our neighbour, we stuffed the holes with mesh and laid more mesh over that area of the roof. I wonder how long that will be successful.