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Riverford did eventually navigate admin barriers & get on-farm water storage - but, with climate change driving hotter, drier summers, warmer, wetter winters, water security for agriculture needs to be prioritised if we're to have food security: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers

Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable

theguardian.com

Lunch break at Bottom Flash at Winsford. It occurred to me here, post-Odyssey, that perhaps setting out on water with a grey bearded man could be inadvisable. Pleased to report safe home, not been turned into a pig or eaten by a cyclops.

A kayak tied up under trees alongside a peaceful lake.  Blue sky,  distant fields across the water.  Very much a "mucking about in the water in the summer" sort of photo.

Wild teasel Side view Considered an invasive biennial plant. This was the only one I saw in the field so the seed for it may have been dropped by a bird or other critter. The large center cone of the plant (not shown here) produces the seeds that are spread each season.

Wild teasel
Side view

Considered an invasive biennial plant.  This was the only one I saw in the field so the seed for it may have been dropped by a bird or other critter.  The large center cone of the plant (not shown here) produces the seeds that are spread each season.
This plant produces these lovely purple florets.
🌱🌿🍃🐬

Plucking the pervert glasses off someone's face, then snapping them like a wishbone with a stranger. Our mutual wish to piss off a creep being immediately granted.