Hedges are a good investment because once it has matured a hedge provides food and shelter for many species of birds, animals and insects. There are government subsidies available for establishing and maintaining them. They also provide returns for people in the form of wood and in some cases edible fruit.

Good luck not getting shot mate.

So he should. I don’t know how he could live with himself knowing he’s allowed the guy to continue his abuse.

This is a good one.

With or without carbon offsetting though?

“From now on we will be producing our greenhouse gases in Rwanda.”

“In other news, Labour has appointed the fox as chief advisor on chicken coops.”

Apparently that’s why there is no organic honey produced in the UK. You need to be a certain distance away from land that is sprayed with chemicals to get organic certification for your honey and nowhere in the UK is that far away.

I think Ghandi and his followers understood this.

In the short term we need more like this. In the long term we simply need to stop producing and using plastics on this scale. Recycling is good but by the time plastic gets to this stage in its ‘life-cycle’ much of the environmental damage has already been done through production, manufacturing and transport.

I think it’s because they are a setting where people are there for a separate purpose to meeting a partner, which allows for romance to be portrayed as spontaneous. Also, clothes (particularly underwear, pyjamas and towels) come into contact with the body and imply intimacy.

Fatbikes look cool but lose one of the main advantages of bicycles, which is that you can easily carry them, whether up stairs, onto a train or into a car. Electric fatbikes must be even worse for that. Its probably better thinking of them as motorbikes.

Cool, no more need for American military bases in our countries then. Or sharing intelligence with them. Or propping up their arms industry.

This is awesome news! Can’t wait to try it out in the morning!

Fuck yeah!

“The desire for power should automatically exclude you from having any.” Billy Connelly

Pretty interesting after Robin Wright’s role in The Congress.

The world has been changing fast and I think the safest advice in terms of always having work is to learn something to do with bedrock infrastructure, like plumbing or welding.

If you bang on about the election process not working and then win the election you have totally delegitimised yourself before you’ve even begun.

Vatican City.

Man that is dark!