Not much hunting needed, if I’m honest. I went into the polytunnel this lunchtime having watered in there a couple of days ago and found this:
I suspect they’d enlarged a mole run. I don’t know if that’s the kind of thing that rabbits do, but I think there might well have been a mole in the polytunnel last year.
So now I have to “encourage” them to go somewhere else.
What is going on with her finger in that photo? Mine won’t bend anything like that.
More than 100 vehicles pile up on US motorway after crash
Fortunately, no-one killed.
But what I find most odd is the quote at the end:
One man involved in the accident said he could barely see the cars in front of him due to the snow when driving 20-25 mph (32-40km/h) before the crash.
and you carried on driving anyway? Why?
From the craft bakery in our nearest town. Tastes lovely. Bacon sandwiches tomorrow are a must 😀
Probably from the late 2000s. These are of our well. Closed up now, though it can still be pumped out.
And the bins are emptying out. Slowly 😀
There’s a lot of shrinkage though. I don’t stop putting stuff in them until they’ve been this full, several times.
The BBC reports that there’s a report published today about the decline in the “health” of the natural world having the potential to affect the UK’s national security. Here.
What concerns me is the quote from DEFRA near the end of the article:
“The UK has a resilient food system and remains one of the most food-secure nations in the world.
We have access through international trade to food products that cannot be produced here, which supplements domestic production and ensures that any disruption from risks such as adverse weather or disease do not affect the UK’s overall security of supply.”
Right up to the point where, for whatever reason, those international suppliers either can’t, or won’t, to supply that food to us?
If it’s coffee or tea for example, I’m sure we’d learn to live without it though it might not be very much fun. Wheat, barley and oats we are largely self-sufficient in. In the case of vegetables however, it appears that the UK only grows 55% of its consumption. And fruit? A mere 15%. If the overseas supply of those were cut off, we might well become a nation of scurvy (and very hungry) knaves.
The quote seems quite odd in another respect. They claim that internationally-sourced products that we can’t produce ourselves supplement our own production. To my way of thinking that means there’s no overlap (we can’t produce those products). But then they claim that this will ensure our overall security in the event of disruption?
“Lead DevOps Engineer required for a high-growth climate tech start-up.”
That’s all it says about the business trying to fill the position. The only way to find out more is to apply, which I’m disinclined to do because there’s nothing there to give me a way to make my application stand out in terms of why I’d like to work for them.
This leads me to one (or more) of the following conclusions:
Whichever is the case, I’d not bother applying. More than one hundred people allegedly have done so though. Makes me wonder if they’ll be using artificial stupidity to filter the applications. Which is another good reason not to waste time applying.
But since May 2025 I have had eighteen emails from HMRC about it. Sometimes two in one day. At what point does this start to count as harassment?
