Privatisation of water means:- • £72bn to shareholders (£2bn pa) • debt of £53bn • CEO pay of £1.7ml pa • 2.4bn litres of water leaked daily (25% of supply) • raw sewage dumped in our rivers & seas 1000+ times a day • bills up 40% in real terms It’s a scandal. Nationalise

Desmond Swayne - MP for New Forest West which includes a beautiful coastline. He voted to allow sewage to be poured out into the Solent. Remember that when you & your kids, who have been swimming, get an upset tummy due to the 💩in the sea. #TorySewageParty

This is my MP, Rt. Hon Dame Andrea Leadsom DBE. She voted to allow water companies to discharge raw sewage into our sea and rivers. Her actions will be remembered in 2024. #TorySewageParty

This is my local MP Anthony Browne @ab4scambs after huge public backlash to his Oct 21 vote that permitted current dumping of raw sewage in UK waters, hastily claimed the Tories would draft far stronger legislation.Reader,they FW haven’t... Feargal Sharkey #TorySewageParty #GTTO

The same Marco Longhi that stands up in Parliament to berate & ridicule me! Shit sticks ya know! All over our coastlines & waterways. #TurdReich

"Liz Truss’s £235m cut to Environment Agency ‘doubled sewage discharge’." And it's looking likely that she also ordered Defra officials to go to Brussels and kill off the Water Framework Directive. independent.co.uk/climate-change…

Sentimental: this sad, fast-fading attempt to graft a vintage peach is on its way out after 6 years. Bud grafts taken earlier this year failed - any suggestions how to use remaining live wood to attempt resurrection? The pit from 1 peach produced is in compost. Bob Flowerdew ?

Approach grafted as per Bob Flowerdew the best of the poor growth now clasped to the bosom of a foster parent. I know it looks like we're above the graft union - close inspection of the ‘plum’ on a St Julien stock shows it’s likely all rootstock. Now we wait.

If that wasn’t bad enough we also had sprouted Maris Piper at the same store from Israel priced at £2,000 per tonne. This is not any old disgrace this is an M&S disgrace. #farming #potatoes #ukfood #ripoffbritain

£65,738 -MP salary in 2010 £86,584 -MP salary in 2023 If rail, teachers, nurses, firemen, ambulance staff, bus drivers, had the same rate of increase, there would be no strikes.

During a 4 hour drive through #France, I saw 8 bridges built specifically for #wildlife, to enable a safe passage from one habitat to another. The UK is so far behind in terms of animal road safety, it’s unreal. Not one dead animal/bird seen. Why can’t all new roads have these?

How many innocent #animals risk their lives to cross this stretch of road to reach further habitat on the other side on a daily basis? A lot more forethought and planning could have ensured a safer passage for #wildlife👇#WildlifeBridges

Norfolk Frost Alert! What’s become the annual ‘chapeau’ to Bob Flowerdew for the tip: peach snug behind its poly screen to protect the early blossom.

It’s that time of year! Join us via St Andrew’s Main Road NR134TA for gardens and free parking, or The Green NR134SZ for limited Blue Badge parking and more gardens. @mikeliggins @edp24 #bbclookeast #garden #gardening #opengardens

Aaaargh… a visitor says my boxhedges have boxmoth attack - found 2 caterpillars. Hedges are 90cm high, 50 thick. Don’t like spray generally, could any spray could effectively penetrate that to get to the problem? Cutback hard before? Bob Flowerdew

Noticed this in the ’no mow’ area - anyone know what it is?

Ignoring for the moment the entire hamlet of Burlingham Green has been without phone or b/b for 14 days due to BT_Openreach reluctance to shin up a pole, this latest is a beauty. The whole system could fail?

Burlingham Open Gardens 2024: Sunday 9th Jun, 10 til 4, main entry NR13 4TA. £5 all day, under 16’s free. 20+ participating gardens. Some Blue Badge parking in The Green, NR13 4SZ. Live music, BBQ, Teas, cakes. Plant Sales at St Andrews. Eastern Daily Press BBC East