The Virtual Lounge

[blissgirl]

Anyone here ?

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[Cleoriff]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Hello @Cleoriff ... glad you slept well 

How's the new bathroom going ?

No doubt you've got plenty of strong tea & chocolate biscuits to accomodate the workmen 

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Noisily @Anonymous 

Yes they had tea...but no choccie biscuits. I don't want them to stay longer than possible!!

[Mi-Amigo]

@Cleoriff  Hope the building work you`re having done goes OK.

My painter brought his own flask of coffee [He must have sussed I dont do coffee] and also brought chocky biscuits, which he shared with me.

To be honest, he`s made a really good job, he not only covered furnature but moved it [as I can`t], stayed until 6pm and will be here at 8.30am in the morning, and all will be finished and returned back to how it was. Well pleased   

[Anonymous]

Hello @Cleoriff 

Hope your bathroom work is going alright ... & ... the workmen are clearing up as they go

You've made me lol with your comment about no choccy bicis 

Pleased @Mi-Amigo that your decorator is doing a good job for you 

[Anonymous]

Have a Laugh on Me 

Twice today, in 2 separate public places, have I been caught with my flowery dress caught up in the back of my Big Girls Knickers ..... Oh The Shame 

[Cleoriff]

@jonsie  @Glory1 @Anonymous @Mi-Amigo @pgn  (and anyone else interested in Chernobyl Lol

Bit of an eye opener tonight. I was watching the last episode of Our Planet.

It was about Forests and the animals who live within them

Of course the awful news is 50% of the worlds forests have been destroyed due to humans.

However and this is fascinating. Many of us have discussed the series Chernobyl?

So Chernobyl, 30 years on is still an exclusion zone.

10 years after the disaster, trees and vegetation began to grow and thrive. So NOW Chernobyl has a massive forest and animals have returned. They showed wolves, deer, foxes, rabbits etc. All growing, all thriving. No humans, just animals and a large beautiful forest.

I found this particularly poignant. An area so destroyed by a nuclear disaster, and somewhere which will be an exclusion zone to humans for a few 100 years has somehow managed to become a safe haven for trees, forests, vegetation and wild animals. 

[jonsie]

It makes you think doesn't it. Soon people will be back living there and destroying nature. When nature is left to itself then it will thrive. Add a couple of humans to the mix and they will devastate it within a few short years. Long may they be excluded.

[Cleoriff]

@jonsie 

Not for another 20,000 years will humans be allowed to return to Chernobyl according to many articles including this one

https://www.livescience.com/39961-chernobyl.html

The region today is widely known as one of the world's most unique wildlife sanctuaries. Thriving populations of wolves, deer, lynx, beaver, eagles, boar, elk, bears and other animals have been documented in the dense woodlands that now surround the silent plant. Only a handful of radiation effects, such as stunted trees growing in the zone of highest radiation and animals with high levels of cesium-137 in their bodies, are known to occur.

But that's not to suggest that the area has returned to normal, or will at any point in the near future. Because of the long-lived radiation in the region surrounding the former Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the area won't be safe for human habitation for at least 20,000 years.

[Mi-Amigo]

Thanks for letting us know about the programme @Cleoriff .

It is amazing that humans destroy the environment, the habitat and creatures with which we share this planet. Yet, whilst Chernobyl remains an exclusion zone to humans, nature has made it a haven, with forest, trees and vegetation, which are the home for wildlife - free from human interference, and may it continue to be so.  

[Glory1]

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:

Thanks for letting us know about the programme @Cleoriff .

It is amazing that humans destroy the environment, the habitat and creatures with which we share this planet. Yet, whilst Chernobyl remains an exclusion zone to humans, nature has made it a haven, with forest, trees and vegetation, which are the home for wildlife - free from human interference, and may it continue to be so.  

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Amen to that @Mi-Amigo. At least with humans out of the picture, the area can continue to thrive for the benefit of our flora and fauna. Mother Nature keeping her hand in.

[jonsie]

Nothing really has changed from the meteor wiping out the dinosaurs and all other animal life when you think about what  man has acheived since then. The only difference being that the meteor was a natural disaster. The force of nature is nothing compared to the force of man on the planet.