Foraging can get over the top sometimes. I remembered this story from last year: https://www.cornish-times.co.uk/news/villagers-are-setting-up-patrols-in-lostwithiel-to-protect-its-wild-garlic-from-f… (View Post)

One of the issues with 'potholes' is that the sorts of repairs a contractor (or the local council) will do will never be able to last more than a year or so. Potholes often (but of course n… (View Post)

Yes, although it is £85,000 rather than £80,000. What you have to be careful of is that it is for each parent company. So if you have money in a number of banks/building societies but they are all ow… (View Post)

I know that many will not agree with me on some or all of the reasons but on the whole I think this has been a good news day. - Sense has prevailed and Lineker has been reinstated. I will now continu… (View Post)

Indeed. Most of the projects I have been involved with have been either lowland chalk/limestone or river valley reshaping - undoing the canalisation of former centuries. The most common way of rewild… (View Post)