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Some of the bean harvest. I'll use some as seeds for next year.

Storm Ciarán is breaking records and research suggests more severe weather in future THECONVERSATION.COM Storm Ciarán is the UK’s third named winter storm since September.

Ouch.

..... And AI.

I'd put money on Fungi inheriting the earth after we've fcked it up too much for ourselves. Incredibly successful organisms. BBC Four - The Magic of Mushrooms WWW.BBC.CO.UK Mushroom enthusiast Richard Fortey explores the strange and surprising science of fungi.

Both I reckon. People used to be far more in tune with the natural world around them, but were sick of it after the hours walk home to a cold, dark hovel at the end of a 12 hour working day out in the elements.

Some leftover tomatoes, too late to ripen now. So they're set to ferment, hopefully.

I've seen similar Beech trees, part of out grown laid hedges on top of banks or stone walls, around Exmoor too.

I agree. Who doesn't enjoy a bit of cork-sniffing? We're getting into the realms of Oliver Rackham now.

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Interesting topic. That first photo doesn't look like an Assart Hedge. More like a wall or earth bank hedge where the trees have been left to grow up. You can see the stones underneath the moss and roots. Pretty special place that; Teign Gorge / Fingle Woods.

As Dan's comments above, but I'd add a 4th compromise that might have to be made; Money. Probably obvious but might be worth saying. Nobody will pay very much when you're just starting out, with little experience and part-time, so you will face some drop in income whatever happens There is a large element of "right place, right time" I think. I was lucky by indirectly finding a guy who needed some help with some manual forestry cutting work, thinning. (To be blunt about it; he needed me with my recently acquired tickets to be able to get the job. As his had expired!) I worked my socks off for 6 weeks and got paid bugger all at the end of it. Wasn't too p*ssed though as it was invaluable experience of using a saw in anger and I wasn't doing anything else much at the time anyway.

Here's some good news. It was a p*ss poor proposal in the first place. The rail network is bad enough as it is. Went into our local station the other day to find some train times for the local service, and found that they don't have the big printed timetables posted up on the walls anymore. I must have been lucky as I did find a real person in the ticket office, but she said they don't even have the TTs on printed leaflets anymore either. I feel sorry for a lot of the older generation who don't have smartphones or internet access. Plans to close rail ticket offices in England scrapped WWW.BBC.CO.UK The government tells train firms to ditch the controversial closures, sparking anger from rail bosses.

Here's the answer; Roast Squirrel stuffed with Chestnut! Sounds good to me.

Looks like some are a bit too early but they're dropping now anyway. Hopefully they'll keep as well as last year. We had more than that and barely a couple of handfuls that went mouldy or wormy.

Things are about to get a whole load more confusing for the hard of thinking as well;- Boris Johnson to join right-wing broadcaster GB News – POLITICO WWW.POLITICO.EU The former PM will join Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg on the broadcaster’s roster.

Wrong type of rain, that's all. Therese Coffey Blames Rain Coming From The Wrong Direction For Flooding Failure WWW.HUFFINGTONPOST.CO.UK Environment secretary says Britain has got dealing with downpours from the west down to a "fine art". Less so from the east.

Sounds good. Comfort food as well. I'm a big fan of the rarer, (these days), cheaper cuts of meat. Loads of flavour, just need a little longer to cook.

A hearty winter stew. Made with a nice, respectably sized slab of Beef Skirt.

It's not unduly heavy, I've never felt it on my neck. The one problem I have found though is that most of the weight is at the front. So it has a tendency to slip forward and down at the front of you're leaning over for a prolonged time. I was wearing it whilst working in the loft, replacing all the rubbish old glass fiber insulation, and I kept having to push the face shield away from my nose. I was kneeling down, looking down most of the time.

Another vote for Trend Airshield Pro. Absolutely nothing gets into mine. Plus you've got eye/face/head protection all bundled in, and it never fogs up. Only downside is that is a slightly noisy, but that's nothing major.

Moving on from this particular detail of the hospital, and back to the wider picture of the whole situation. What's the endgame? Setting aside for now the inhumanity of what's happened, and is still happening, what's the strategy of the Israeli government, aside from its immediate objective? I'm not sure that they've really considered it. Say they do succeed in erasing Gaza, which I'm sure they can, given enough time and collateral damage. They'll kill some or most of Hamas and the general (innocent) population and the rest will escape the country. (Though I heard somewhere that the Hamas top dogs don't actually live in Gaza anyway). What happens then? The best case is a whole new generation of jihadi fighters is spawned, hell bent on carrying out more terrorist atrocities. Worst case is more Islamist groups and maybe countries in the region get drawn into the conflict with unknown consequences for the rest of the world. Israel is surrounded by Arab, Muslim countries and there are still more Muslims all over the globe; it can't fight them all forever.