I agree that snails are wonderful. I have spent time observing them too, so join the folk who get down and look at things and marvel at them and think about the world. You just need lot of thrushes and hedgehogs to scoff them.

Apparently a product made from the foreskins of circumcised boys is injected into Hollywood's rich and revolting for the same purposes of making their skin look young.

They are becoming truly vile with their dread of aging. Most of them look like sad old harridans wearing greasepaint with lips like sausages and inch long eyelashes.

When "elephant whisperer" Laurence Anthony died in 2012, his elephant herd did something experts still to this day can not explain...

Elephants mourn their human redeemer

I refuse to be told what to eat by a bunch of fools who feed carrots to dogs.

This latest anti-sugar campaign is so stupid and so unnecessary that I can't believe it's happening. It follows on the whole anti-brigade's attempts to ruin our food that started in the seventies when they decided to attack meat. They moved on to salt and gluten and now they are campaigning against sugar. They are also trying to turn dogs into vegetarians. They are mad and it's important to consider this.

Diabetics are different from those without this problem. Sugar, like bread and salt and meat, is a food. Humans will eventually start suffering from all sorts of health problems on account of the mad contemporary "health" fanatics. They are part of clown world and they can stick their sugarless chocolates up their posteriors as far as I am concerned . They are ruining most of the things we all once enjoyed.

I absolutely love your garden! I am entranced by the flowers. I am wild about the green and as for the rain ... faint. Of course that is why England is so beautiful. Take away all that rain and you would have corn flakes.

I would also like to blow a kiss to the birds. the pigeon is interesting. A bit different from ours. Lovely creature. And we have your kind sparrow here too. As well as our own, known as a "mossie".

Can you tell me exactly how to post an MP4? I did try and Heero did tell me but I didn't get it right. I had one of the birdsong.

Where I am Purselane is an edible "weed". It is traditional herb used in stews and salads by the indigenous people, and acknowledged by herbalists and herb fans. Grows well with no help from anyone.

Re Dandelions: Budgies like them. Mr V's grandmother always fed her budgies dandelions.

Ah, a human tree killer

Something to make Heero feel better about his scoffed nasturtiums. ... Or not ...

How do you like these charming specimens of humanity?

Teen disowns dad for proudly posing next to slaughtered lion in Kalahari

   

Garden poison?

Millions of painted lady butterflies are going to migrate to Britain!

Invasion of Painted Ladies

When this first started making itself clearly apparent, I thought I'd go nuts it was such a terrible prospect. But as the years grind on and the clowns get more sinister and the idiots more idiotic, one accustoms oneself to things and as various trolls hack bits off decent people who want to preserve Britain, one also comes to the same conclusions you have mentioned.

The life-world is an intricate web. To break it is to close off some of its wonder and to close oneself off from it. To keep it whole is to move through it and find other webs

Flowers can hear buzzing bees—and it makes their nectar sweeter

Flowers listening for bees

Our weather has been perfectly behaved this year, in comparison to the past few years when we didn't know what to expect next and winters were too warm. This year it has been freezing with blue skies. As it should be. Maybe Mother Nature is returning to her more dependable self? Maybe she is just resting before another whack at the species trying to kill her. Time will tell.

I love nasturtiums. The leaves are peppery delicious on crackers or fresh bread. Natural antibiotics.

He was pretty famous when he was young during the apartheid era's death throes. They performed overseas. He was affectionately known as the white Zulu. A significant unifying force through music, etc. A good guy. One of the last of the English speaking South Africans who tried to create peace instead of conflict.

"The world is full of strange behaviour, every man has to be his own saviour." True.

R.I.P. Johhny Clegg, South African music icon.

https://youtu.be/Oeqnmua-QQ8

Know how you feel. Haven't seen a drop of rain where I am for weeks. My world is cornflakes.

This is actually potentially catastrophic. Meghan is going to start ruing the day she decided to get into Harry's trousers.

They will try to tear down Boris as heartily as they tried to tear down Trump.

I agree with Nigel Brooks that historical accusations have little hope of justice. They can be the work of those who want to bring someone down for a number of reasons. They may also be genuine, but trying to take it to court decades later unless one has the sort of evidence NB suggests, is usually competing with thunder.

Oh my, the saviours! How mad is a mission to save a nation and a country from its independence.

Clown world.

Yep, yous gotta praaahblem!

Yes. Almost everyone who has ever spoken out about anything that ruffles feathers has been silenced, trolled, or libelled. Long ago they were poisoned or beheaded or burned.