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Well that back-fired.  Pop a range rover in front of Chris Packham's gaff and set it on fire .  Cracking high jinx, that'll show him.  Hahaha no one died, fortunately, hahahaha.  Haha criminal damage hahahahaha.  Nothing, and I do mean nothing , gets your point across better than this sort of thing. Chris' response to this was to remind people to vote on the National Trust trail hunting permission and indeed I was one of them.  So I did.   And now trail hunting is to be banned on National Trust sites . So that went well.  Probably not the outcome the chaps in their rangey were hoping for.  Hope they didn't leave their sunglasses in the glovebox. Maybe it's COP26 enthusiasm, but I'm feeling quite optimistic all of a sudden.

As an avid paddler of boards, I have been quite preoccupied with watery stuff for quite some time.  Whilst I live in the perpetual optimistic middle ground of eco-politics, I do think that the situation with english waterways and the water companies sewage release to be an absolute shit show - pun intended.  The fact that I use (and have done for a long time) the Surfers Against Sewage app, that informs of coastal pollution by proxy, alongside weather and tidal forecasts for planning my excursions is deeply depressing to me. I am not directly annoyed with my MP over votes over the environment bill last week, I understand how the whip works.  I do however think it was a gross miscalculation on the part of the Government of the temperature of the Nation on the topic.  Thankfully, amendments yet to be seen, it seems that a correction is on the way.  A real show of the power of calm and peaceful protest .  Well done  #EndSewagePollution  I have been...