Category: Environment

Temperatures have definitely dropped to early autumn levels. And we have had a useful drop of rain. First trees are begining to brown whilst my apple tree is shedding some apples before they ripen. I think the variety is Braeburn – but not sure.

First major earthquake for a while in Afghanistan. The USA has not had a major rumble for a while – whilst not wishing death and destruction on anyone innocent – a quake there would keep Trump occupied for a while – especially if in a MAGA state! Just sayin’.

Farage and Tice object to a christian view! The Archbishop of York has said that the Reform policies are ignoring the facts of the issue. Oh and the economics of it. Fucking morons! And yet they are supported widely. Is the population of these isles so thick? Would they be so uncaring if returned migrants are executed on airport runways? Probably is the answer!

Best opening words from a book? I have finally stopped grining about this one ” Its too hot for sex. I should have just said that before he pulled his shorts down and got his knob out”. This is not from a porn book but a romcom book by Kristen Bailey “Hot to go”. Yes I read rom-coms and wish I had been reading before my marriage went pear shaped! Never look back and say what if!

Angela Rayner is again a hate topic for Murdoch – is there an unholy alliance between Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, and Rupert Murdoch? They seem to alternate between their shite publications seamlessly! Latest that I can see is that she has sold her property up north, and has bought a flat in Hove. Her grace and favour property is irrelevant? How dare a member of the common people actually get to the heights of our society!

WHO issues warning that take up of MMR is 83.7% and polio, whooping cough, tetnus and diptheria was at 81.4% – herd immunity is 95%. Why? Regional differences are not easy to explain with Liverpool and London being below 70% whilst the North-east is above 90%. Ethnicity does come into it with Afro-Caribbean uptake being low. Conspiracy theories are also takinga toll – even the defeat of Covid is not acknowledged by many. The lack of trust in government (and thus the NHS) is concerning. How long before the Mai, Telegraph, Sun, i or Eepress have a horror/sob story about someone reacting badly to the vaccine. They will ignore the 83.% who benefit to spread fear amongst all parents. The latest addition to the NHS range is a vaccine against chicken pox.

Of course it is totally obscene and criminal the Robert F Kennedy Jnr is able to pursue his conspiracy theories and force the resignation of respected scientists in his pursuit of vaccine free policies. The USA has also cut funding mRNA programmes by $500 million – this how America has become a corrupt regeime controlled by an egoistic charlatan.

Governments are unbelieviably stupid! Anyone with half a brain could have predicted this summers weather. If not this summer it would be next summer or/and the one after. No new reservoirs or supplies yet a population increase of 10% in recent years. The ‘drought committee’ met yesterday – a bit fucking late. reactive is poor management. Only Devon, Cornwall and London, Kent and Surrey seem to be OK. Much of the South-east gets its water from aquifers and are thus protected somewhat by vaguries in supply. Areas that rely on rivers or reservoirs are susceptable to changes in the weather.

Housing design should also take into account these changes in water supply. I have 3 water butts totalling 350ltrs. The largest and most used has now run dry – I wish I could channel bath/shower water into usable containers for the garden (and toilet flushes!). Hopefully my plants will survive the drought conditions as they mostly have deep roots and have become well established (and moderate the climate of my house and garden).

However it is not a case of just inconvenience – Southern Water took time from counting their wages and bonus’s to apply to take more water from one of Britains almost unique chalk streams famed for its biological diversity. Bastards.

Elsewhere – Switzerland is suffering from glacier melt and rockfalls affecting many villages – presumably the same is happening in Austria, France and other mountain regions. But do not worry – Reform deny climate change as do MAGA supporters in the USA and BP shareholders and the rest of the fossils

So considerable numbers of people can be persuaded to react violently to people who have risked life and limb and probably a fair wack of cash to get here; but are strangely quiet about the £100’s of millions embezzelled by companies during Covid. The fast track was developed for conservative supporters and at ties only supplied sub-standard equipment. So how can anyone with an ounce of humanity complain about the asylum seekers being put up in, often crowded conditions in hotels (which charge the government over the top rates, and being provided with a pittance and being barred from working. Whilst some people elevated tomthe HoLords and claiming £300 expenses per day are allowed to get away with massive fraud?

The same arguments are used against the unemployed. Indeed I have heard complaints about a single mum receiving more than a shop manager. The biggest subsidy on welfare is the exorbitant rents. The welfare budget could be slahed with a sensible realignment of the housing market. Second homes should have at least 75% occupancy or be financially penalised. WTF – and yes increase the tax on salaries/bonus’s to at least 75% – do these people really work harder or have more stress than doctors, nurses and teachers who earn less than 10% the average wages of city slickers. (Most of whom make money by glorified gambling on the stock market, currency markets and commodities. i.e. they actually do nothing productive to aid society (my first job was in a foreign exchange dealing room and nothing beneficial came out of it – well apart from me, of course!).

The police have said they will arrest any and all at any Palestine Action demonstration. Is this democracy under threat? PA have undertaken some dubious activities including vandalising Jewish offices and RAF planes (with paint!). These acts are illegal and the perpetrators arrested and brought before the courts. But Yvette Cooper has decided to ban people from even stating that they support a Palestinian state and she is wrong. The police have better things to do, and she will have increased the number of peple demonstrating anyway. Israel is bleating about the UK decision to recognise Palestine in the future – so it must be worthwhile. Hamas says it will not disarm until the Palestinian state is recognised. This reminds me of a sketch in a Monty Python film! That there is any Hamas organisation still existing is a phenomenon.

More waste of police time is ‘Tommy Robinson’ being arrested again – can we just lock him up and throw away the key – or deport him to join fellow wankers in Romania.

The Star leads with an article regarding Lucy Letby – there is much about her case that needs examination – rather than sensationalist bollocks. Storm Floris would have been a more usual headline!

And at present just 10% of our electricity is being produced by gas! Summer, sunny and windy. But wtf not. It will conserve gas stocks – so what has loopy face got against it? Oh and Rayner and Corbyn have a spat apparently. I like Angela, but she is wrong if she allows building on allotments. Whilst producing loads of food they also act as wildlife hotels/motels. We need to keep the wildlife corridors in our cities open.