And I imagine we're all jealous.

It didn't half need a lot of persuading to do it though.

I have an absence of foxes. Used to come across them playing on my allotment when I went up there early. Not for a two or three years now.

Guess they have an eye on your worms!

Thanks. That might be more easily accessible than farmyard manure in smaller amounts. Trying to be organic and also to work out the hygiene implications when there are small children around too. Do you think tomato feed would work?

Thanks.

It looks fun - a sort of Top Trumps approach with serious intent and with fantastic photographs.

A celebration of long puddles!

Thanks.

Thanks. That looks like a clever solution. The link you gave didn't work but I think you mean this www.ryedalevineyards.co.uk/product/Miss... ? Have you tasted it yourself?

Until two days ago, I had one marigold flower - absolutely huge and a deep, brilliant orange. Someone picked it and took it away. (I couldn't really blame them!)

I know several refugee children. They were my first thought when I heard this announcement. They are growing up in England, learning English until they are as fluent as those of us born here, getting an English education. Living in our weather(!). When they are grown up, will they be thrown out?

And now, following Mahmood, we have Chris Philp for the Tories. Immediately he’s ramping things up. The Tories would be even harsher, he says. That’s what this Labour‘s policy does. Fighting cruelty with cruelty, unsurprisingly results in more cruelty.

They make no case at all that there are too many refugees given sanctuary. Their justifications are all about other kinds of migrants. They are deliberately sacrificing refugees for instrumental ends. I barely know where to start with how wrong that is. It’s also a stupid on its own terms.

If you listen to Labour, their reasons for being cruel to refugees is twofold: a) to win the votes of bigots, b) to deter economic migrants. They think harming the most vulnerable is an acceptable price to pay to benefit themselves & deter the needy.

Yesterday, I posted that Labour haven’t given me reasons to vote for them. The truth is that they’re giving me very strong reasons to vote and campaign *against* them. Stop being horrible!

Labour’s new refugee policy one of the most shameful things I’ve heard from a British politician, and that’s in an environment where Nigel Farage & Robert Jenrick exist. Truly repugnant - if this is enacted it will be a lasting stain.