Bab, you're not dissatisfied with the NHS. You're dissatisfied with years of government mismanagement, underfunding, and the undermining of public health
Thinking about cycling and how extreme weather makes it unsafe.
I can't go out with gusts over 60 mph. While the safest option is not to go out at all, if I had to do so I would be safer in a sturdy car on an unexposed road and might be able to hazard a journey.
I hate it but it's just how it is (the cycling absolutists will tell me I'm wrong, no doubt).
Some of the solutions we need for the sake of the climate are simply made more difficult because of climate breakdown
@TheDonsieLass I've been faced with precisely that dilemma this week, and the result was I was unable to get into the nearest town and do the last of the shopping I had planned. Which is somewhat a nuisance, but it feels very much a first world problem.
I have food, I have water, I will be able to get into town when the wind drops and the shops reopen.
@TheDonsieLass 😢 to keep on trying (even if sometimes/often failing, even with some big failures), and to keep on inspiring others, as you do - that does mean something
Okay, UK gardeners, I'm after a blackberry variety recommendation, if you please.
I like a bit of tartness (all sweet tastes boring and flat to me) in the fruit but sweet enough to eat fresh. I'd like a trouble-free plant. Size is relatively unimportant but I'd prefer a more upright or spreading/vining habit over a bushy one as I'll be growing along a fence. Thorns acceptable.
Note the article makes some erroneous claims. For example, @hicksy2 has pointed out that "ash dieback could well kill up to 80% of the UK's ash trees, it hasn't done yet, as this article sloppily claims"
UK forests face catastrophic ecosystem collapse within 50 years, study says
‘Alarming’ new research warns of risk to British woodlands from disease, extreme weather and wildfires, unless ‘call to action’ is heeded now
Sad to learn that Saleemul Huq died. He was kind to me on Twitter
"A scientist and activist who attended every single global negotiation on climate change since 1992. Saleem was a lovely man, a remorseless but invariably polite campaigner for climate action, both as Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) in Bangladesh and Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED) in London."