Looking at today’s events, I am reminded of a great David Sedaris sketch entitled “The Unflushable Turd”

Thank heavens it’s windy today. Power generation by wind is currently 60% of our needs. That will save us having to pay for all that expensive gas.

My hero Spike Milligan died on this day in 2002. Comedy has never been the same. If he ever made you laugh, RT & LIKE. Let’s make sure the timeline remembers him today. @goonchild4

There you have it, jump on a bandwagon and then watch the wheels come off. Total incompetence of both politicians, and more serious, the ineptitude of our once revered civil service. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyz…

#1% there were two zeros

Came across this, if anyone has any idea, I am sure those at a loss would be only too willing to hear your suggestions.

Hey @Apple since your last update, I have to turn off Bluetooth turn it back on to connect my AirPods Pro.

A guide to orchard planting under socialism. 1. Let multi generational land custodian plant an orchard. 2. Dispossess them of the land. 3. Occupy the land with enthusiastic inexperienced bureaucrats which are in surplus. 4. Manage the orchard by committee. 5. Call an emergency committee meeting after harvest is overlooked due to commitments to the 4 day working week, annual leave & working from home. 6. Some of the bureaucrats starve over winter. 7. They are sent to the Gulag so the committee can eat. 8. The committee decide pruning trees is below their status. The orchard grows intertwined. There is no fruit. 9. The committee ponders over eating each other.

In 2015 we were bankrupted because big dairy said our milk; worth 27p in September was worth 15p in October then 9.7p by Spring. We had no control, and no way out without selling our cows We had a few cows we couldn’t sell to another dairy - the only route for them was direct to the slaughterhouse; so we had an idea That idea, was to take control and deliver our milk directly to YOU - because YOU saw value in real milk from somewhere not controlled by BIG DAIRY and supermarkets It’s been so incredibly hard too - but we’re still here, now we support other farmers too. But that’s impossible for everyone to do - it’s a full system change that’s needed But it’s not been enough, farmers across the nation have just been given massive price cuts yet again without notice - told their milk is collapsing in price because of ‘international market pressures’ Market pressures controlled by the same corporations and supermarkets giving them the price cuts. And off of this in a country that doesn’t produce enough milk to feed itself - how udderly ironic. Very best of luck @parkviewdairy ❤️

Booked marked this. Working out well isn’t it.

The Great British net zero con-trick of Drax. The Labour government is trying to force through an extension that would give Drax an estimated £1.8bn in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11bn it has already received. Drax has burned an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Burning wood creates 18% more CO2 emissions than coal. And here’s the con trick: Drax is a sneaky way of exporting our CO2 emissions. We pay billions of pounds to cut down ancient forests in the US and Canada, ship the wood across the Atlantic in diesel tankers, then burn it in a Yorkshire-based power station. And here’s the kicker: the CO2 emissions tally is not counted against the country that burns it, but the country that grows it. So Drax emissions are counted against the countries who grow and export the wood for Drax - like Canada and USA…not UK who burn it. So the UK can reduce CO2 figures by importing the burning wood grown elsewhere. Drax: A gigantic net zero con-trick.

In the middle of a spectacular thunderstorm and good old BBC weather says sunny. Really rubbish forecasts these days

Friendly reminder to @RachelReevesMP (and colleagues) that if income tax, national insurance, value added tax, fuel duties, alcohol duties, tobacco duties, vehicle excise duties, environmental levies, insurance premium tax, ETS auction receipts, customs duties, air passenger duty, betting and gaming duties, the climate change levy, landfill tax, the aggregates levy, soft drinks industry levy, capital taxes, capital gains tax, stamp duties, inheritance tax, company taxes, corporation tax, the energy profits levy, apprenticeship levy, electricity generator levy, bank levy, bank surcharge, digital services tax, diverted profits tax, petroleum revenue tax, council tax, business rates, dividend tax, student loans tax, sugar tax, & supermarket carrier bags tax isn't enough to balance the budget.... Then maybe the spending is the issue?

And these really big 'corporate' companies have made such a sensational job of everything. Small is nimble and reactive. Bit like a canoe and an oil tanker. A canoe can turn on a sixpence, an oil tanker needs about 8 miles to just stop.

We will expect the same level of prison sentences indeed even stronger for those who carried out this serious breach of security as those who posted hurty words on social media.

poisoned by all the pollution from all those cars/lorries

If you want a summary of what happened at the Halal Slaughter debate today: Rupert Lowe - "This isn't farming, it's torture" Nearly everybody else - "We love animals but we love Muslim votes more"

Now where have I heard this before?

5 years in the planning and growing and we’re hoping for our first harvest this autumn. If you fancy spending a summer’s afternoon/evening here with great food and lovely wine from our partner wineries then check out the website brecksvineyard.com