This does seem a bountiful year for acorns. My rear garden borders six other area's......four other gardens...an end to a cul-de-sac and finally a Scouts compound which has a large wooded area of oak trees.....these oak trees are very tall and have a huge spread of branches which stretch at least thirty feet plus into my garden....and are dropping acorns at approximately one every 10 seconds. We have raked up over the last three weeks..... two full to the brim garden wheelie bins....these bins weigh so much it is difficult to tip the bin and wheel it out to the kerb side.....so I just drag it. When indoors you can hear acorns bouncing off the greenhouse all the time.....and walking in that part of the garden can be quite dangerous.....they can be quite painful falling from quite an height on to your head. If scouts did bob-a-job still (shilling ago if I remember) they can come round and pick-em up themselves.
Good job it's your head then. My grannie used to say no sense no feeling after all. You do insist on doing a running commentary on boats don't you. Still blaming one party when it's been an ongoing problem since Brexit and still none of the parties have come up with a cure let alone Farage. Still don't get that the increase in incoming has been vastly increased since Brexit and the French not being bothered anymore. Fuily enough I was reading about that and Brexit on the Beeb News page yesterday. You should read that it's been fact checked.
A new Home Office-funded police boat is being deployed in Devon and Cornwall because of an anticipated surge in illegal immigration to the region as enforcement of the Channel intensifies. The £350,000 Neptune has state-of-the-art gear including a long-range infrared camera and an underwater drone. Devon and Cornwall chief-constable James Vaughan said at the boat's launch in Plymouth that it was a "worry" that organised crime gangs would begin to target the area more often. He said those smuggling people and drugs have "been pushed down into Sussex and Dorset and Devon and Conwall. Daily Express...Friday...3/10/2025.
I've come to believe I went into the wrong profession. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cwyr0xqj125o
Much mockery - or outrageous anger among the dyed-in-the-wool Brexit fanatics - was poured out in the Leave campaign over the need for straight bananas. Firstly if course, we don’t grow bananas in this country, so who cares? But if you ignore that minor detail and consider the wider picture, why on Earth would producers and business people do anything but love common product standards? It means you can set up to do just one thing rather than many and sell to a vastly bigger market for no extra cost. But no, we had cockney barrow-boys brandishing their bent bananas at the French with glee on the news every week. Having previously been pro-Europe, about the only significant businessman who spoke up on favour of Brexit was James Dyson. As soon as it was done, he hoovered off to Malaysia. Thanks for your help mate. The whole argument was complete bo****ks and in the event, generally speaking we’ve gone on producing to Euro standards anyway. How many shops sell on lbs & oz? The problem is, even though that’s what you’re doing. you’ve now got to produce reams of paperwork to prove it when you sell to Europe which you didn’t before. As a by-product, it’s also put peace in Ireland under unnecessary stress. Unfortunately, the debate about “protecting our borders” was conducted at the same puerile level. Rather than giving us control, it just allowed the French to shrug their shoulders a lot and go “0hh-hee-ohn”. Which was known at the time. And do you know what? I don’t blame them. We spent years trying to overcome French opposition to us entering the EU. No doubt some of it was that they didn’t want the competition but a a good part was also “you can’t trust the British”. So eventually we did get in, spent a couple of decades moaning about it and sending Farage’s mates to the European Parliament to make a fool of themselves and fiddle their expenses, Then we buggered off again. Guilty as charged I think.
