Lords Support Customs Union. Frogspawn. Photo Show and Tell and Pokemon Gym.

Milton 's Jane Coston bridge on the first warm day

The Lords dealt the government a blow today in their debate on the UK EU Withdrawal bill. They voted by 348 to 225 in favour of a plan requiring ministers to report on steps to negotiate a continued customs union. This will be one of the points passed back to the House of commons.

Whilst a customs union with the EU would be desirable economically, it would be a political catastrophe if we had one but without any political say in EU decision making. In my opinion, the UK really does wither have to stay in the EU or leave..

Overnight our pond gained a ball of frogspawn and a visible frog, peeking up out of the pond occasionally. Keeping an eye on the spawn duing the day, it was soon apparent that it was being predated as it gradually reduced in size. I took a small proportion of the spawn with pond water and placded it in a plastic fish tank in our garage where it still gets light but is less subject to overheating during strong sunshine.

This evening we went to the Milton Photographical Club 'Show and tell'. Our pictures were randomly mixed with those of the other members and then shown on screen for the audience to comment and appreciate. I came away with the intention to try more landscape photos with a detail in the foreground as well. As we came out of the church hall, we passed another group. Curiosity won and we found out that it was a pokemon group. Apparently the churchyard is a Pokemon gym.