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 I am being asked this a lot recently, since I've started devoting a lot of time and enthusiasm into water vole conservation in my local river community.  Last weekend I spent Saturday, under a punishing sun, in fishing waders and moving through a local ditch performing a survey.  I cannot begin to describe the excitement at finding compelling evidence of good old Ratty. I guess that's a good reason to start?  Wind in the Willows, which was devised and based on my patch of the world, has been an important book in my family since as long as I can remember.  I can still remember prodding my Dad to wake him up as he snored into the pages whist my sister and I waited for the next chapter.  My own children, especially my son, are also avid fans - long may this tradition continue. But for more "why" I have to go into the specifics of what they bring to the ecosystem.   There's plenty of chat about what we screwed up with waterways and flood management when w...

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...

Problem Statement Worst case scenario: our emissions are cooking the planet.     Every commute and cow fart is melting a polar bear’s back yard just a little more and he’s pissed off but mainly hungry - and they are higher up the food chain than us.     Sea levels are rising and we may lose Scunthorpe.     Scunthorpe !     Whales are gagging on coke bottles and dildos and coral reefs are being boiled, threatening the gap year tourism plans of about 30,000 students per annum.