Daydream fund challenge part 4

alfie_1

im still up as apparently transport delays re pup .... so now 2.20am pick up about 30 miles away !


re climate change... ive noticed the beaulieu rver has risen dramatically and we get floods in the village and some other areas en route of it ... climate change ? OR the fact that the bottom of the river is so full of silt where they opened up the marshes at mouth of river so the "yachties" can get their trophies in safely [ahhh] and destroyed the natural filter system that has been for centuries ! in the last 30 years I have seen the river channel disappear under at least 6ft of silt... so even a cse grade 5'er can figure that the water has to go somewhere and that is UP !! same has happened on the lymington river and others where marinas have taken over...
I know this is just a mall part of it all but I think "climate change" gets the blame for a multitude of human c*ck ups !!

choille

This was quite intense and a new movement - feel jiggered after it. Didn't help we thought we'd go for fish & Chips to Ullapool but they were just locking the door when we got there at 9pm - didn't realise they shut that early - never go anywhere & when we do they lock the doors. Must of known we were coming.

greenbee

I think climate change is probably just one of many human c*ck ups Alfie!

Lots of air moving in the heating this morning, so I'm hoping that it will eventually sort out the last radiator.

Need to give the utility room a deep clean so I can do laundry, and then have to start planting 17 bare root hedging plants that I hope haven't dried out too much while I've been away. I put them in the utility room sink for a good soak last night and am crossing my fingers!

Davesnave

Climate change was the reason we didn't go after a couple of properties close to the Somerset Levels, backalong. We foresaw a possibility that the sea would rise, the rivers would receive more occasional extremes of rain and the economy wouldn't perhaps allow the proper maintenance of the sea defences.

And that's more or less what happened in 2014, though I can't say whether or how much the places we considered were affected.

Whatever we do in this country is just tinkering at the edges; it's USA, China, India and similar sized countries which will determine the path of future change. As they all seek a continually expanding economy, I can't really see that ending well, can you?


Perhaps our only hope is that advanced technology of a kind not currently in the public domain will become mainstream and employed for something more useful than knocking down a couple of big skyskrapers.....

Meanwhile, people continue to use outdated methods to send space probes to Mars in ridiculous attempts to convince people we are making 'progress.' We aren't going anywhere like that, ever!

choille

The Planners here now don't allow building below 5 m above sea level here.

I lived somewhere where they built on flood plains. Crazy. It definetly{sp?} is something to consider when moving house. Another one is don't buy near pylons - OH reckons they are the new asbestos scare health things for the future.
This group are very apocolyptical [sp?]- seems that children are being encouraged to get involved in school strikes - don't know if that is happening by you?

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

This group are very apocolyptical [sp?]- seems that children are being encouraged to get involved in school strikes - don't know if that is happening by you?

I think that has spread from Europe, Scandinavia perhaps. Yes, I'd be bloody furious if I were a child growing up now and watching idiot adults arguing over the minutiae of trade deals while emissions continue to rise annually.

We had The Bomb to contend with when I was a teenager; sad to say, all I did was wear my CND badge and take the detentions for it. We smuggled them into the official school photos as well, and the head went ape, but really it was all rather pathetic. We were told it was 'unpatriotic.'

My mate's Dad was the local vicar, and he had an early warning phone in the vicarage which kept beeping out a double tone all day and all night to indicate there was no threat. If the tone changed to the warning one, the vicar was supposed to leap into action and ring the church bells..... Freaked us all out, that did. After all, what could we do, hide under a table?

I think the same helplessness many of us felt back in the 60s is what those kids are feeling now. No one will listen to them though, unless they make more waves than we did.

choille

Davesnave wrote: »

I think that has spread from Europe, Scandinavia perhaps. Yes, I'd be bloody furious if I were a child growing up now and watching idiot adults arguing over the minutiae of trade deals while emissions continue to rise annually.

We had The Bomb to contend with when I was a teenager; sad to say, all I did was wear my CND badge and take the detentions for it. We smuggled them into the official school photos as well, and the head went ape, but really it was all rather pathetic. We were told it was 'unpatriotic.'

My mate's Dad was the local vicar, and he had an early warning phone in the vicarage which kept beeping out a double tone all day and all night to indicate there was no threat. If the tone changed to the warning one, the vicar was supposed to leap into action and ring the church bells..... Freaked us all out, that did. After all, what could we do, hide under a table?

I think the same helplessness many of us felt back in the 60s is what those kids are feeling now. No one will listen to them though, unless they make more waves than we did.

I agree but it's primary school kids.

lucielle

Just been playing with a friends horse, lovely. Finally chopped out all last years raspberry canes. There doesn't seem to be as many new canes to tie, just wondering if the plants have gotten to old.

Lovely day, just hope it keeps like this. Slowly getting better, the sciatica is nearly better but the shoulder is still painful. Keep seeing the physio but need it right to go lambing.
L

choille

Sciatica is awful & you have to take it easy but keep moving.

Turned into a gorgeous day but very windy. Thought it was supposed to chuck it down but didn't so a long beach walk was in order.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

I agree but it's primary school kids.

Primary kids [STRIKE]are[/STRIKE] were my specialist subject.;)

I can tell you there are quite a few 9+ year-olds, who are very aware of environmental and other issues and the way the media's used to present them, get support, or conversely, ignore and poo-poo them.

These guys have laptops, mobiles and the whole gamut of social media at their fingertips, so they don't feel cut-off and isolated like children in the past. They won't just take opinions from adults who talk down to them.

Pre and early teens don't have much financial clout, but like the workers of old, they own their labour.....

But walking out of class to protest is an action that catches the media's attention for only a short while. They need to develop strategies for attending and continuing their educational development, but maybe putting pressure on in other ways.

After all, if some 11 year olds can be difficult for all the wrong reasons......