It's hard to be cheerful in this weather. The greenhouse is flooded out again thanks to the neighbour's sheds and the garden is much wetter than usual too now.
I got soaked emptying the compost caddy and then found a vine weevil sat in the bin munching away.
And double glazing salesmen have been knocking the door this morning and posting junk mail through despite the sign asking them politely not to.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Just popped into store , folk are complaining because roads are blocked ( highways agency vans across the road with cones ) and they still expect us to be able to make their delivery.
It’s not just the rubber bands that the posties use ... if you look at the photos you’ll see there are the little thin coloured ones ... yellow, green, blue etc. the seagulls probably pick them up from our rubbish on the landfill sites 😢
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I get annoyed at all the bands the posties drop too, but those are different. They seemed to think it's the kind florists use? I do feel that the fishing nets dumped overboard get ignored though, as the 'consumer' type plastics get all the flack. There was a horrible story recently about a whale full of it
An Oz friend recently posted pics of a large bird flying around with its legs tied together by a balloon and its string and another of a seagull choked to death by balloons. We need to go back to twine for tying and no more mass releases of balloons for any reason.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I've done a few beach cleans and you find bag fulls of offcuts of nylon rope, just little bits up to 6 inches long that get cut off and lobbed in the sea by nautical types. I'm assuming the fishing industry is behind a lot of it. It's that and balloon ribbons I find mostly. Speaking of which there's some helium balloons hung up at the top of a tall tree up the woods here like a long range advert for littering. I hate them
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Plastic/cellophane wrapped bouquets at death sites are an abomination - they are rarely removed and dealt with - just allowed to deteriorate and litter the countryside. Not only the mass release of balloons but those who tie 1 or 2 to fences, trees, etc. often to celebrate someone's birthday and then fail to collect them after the event. It is something which can so easily be avoided but we just continue regardless. Plastic confetti is another bugbear - I recently spent hours picking up the dratted stuff from my garden and roadside. Bride, groom and the rest of the celebrants went off happily leaving their crap for others to deal with. Well, that was pretty curmudgeonly
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Look at ours just 10 miles from you as the crow flies. And a wet week forecast.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I get annoyed at all the bands the posties drop too, but those are different. They seemed to think it's the kind florists use?
I do feel that the fishing nets dumped overboard get ignored though, as the 'consumer' type plastics get all the flack. There was a horrible story recently about a whale full of it
https://stv.tv/news/scotland/1441407-dead-whale-and-unborn-calf-washed-up-in-fishing-nets/
It happens everywhere
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...