The entire Funding the Future team went for a walk at Wicken Fen last night to discuss ideas. Cameras went with us.
The water pump was an obvious focus of attention, given birds were heard and not seen, except for a chiffchaff, of which the image is definitely not worth sharing:
The flag iris was magnificent:
The sun was setting as we headed for home:
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That woke windmill will have to go..
“Onshore wind!”
“Net zero rubbish!”
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Lovely pics.
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Good walk too…
Good stuff. I like that high key, almost washed out sunny scene at the end – it’s really you.
However, your pictures have knocked the scab off an issue that I am quite worried about.
Walking around Derbyshire recently, I’ve been struck by how dry it all looks. The reservoirs are very low, once familiar brooks and ponds seem to have disappeared.
We have not built reservoirs; seas are rising. This is all going in the wrong direction.
On new housing developments, street cleansing is being allocated to private management companies as councils wash their hands of it under austerity and stretched general fund/council tax budgets. My view is that these ‘man co’s’ as we call them could be bought up by an investor and then the estate charge to every estate resident will rise dramatically – nice little earner for the rich and council landlords will also be hit via their s.106 acquisitions.
So, we have not got enough reservoirs, rain seems to be less reliable or all comes at once so water is going to be short or not constant.
Is it not about time the country invested in desalination plants?
But, what if those desalination plants are delivered by the private sector who might well charge handsomely for their water?
Great.
Not.
I am very worried that the next area of our lives to exploited will be for the life giving water we need. We may be being cornered here.
Water is incredibly low here too – dangerously so, I’d suggest
There are a lot of farm resevoirs around here, but when they plant potatos that require vast quantities of water they are not going to last long.
Thanks re the photos
I tried that sun sot several ways – and that was the best, without much editing.
Lovely pictures. I hope there was some relaxing amongst the working.
Lovely pictures… its always good for the soul to get outside! As a former Somerset girl I don’t know that part of the world but it makes me want to walk that walk!!
Thanks, Liz.
Richard:
The truth comes out !! You have a team!! I really wondered how a single person could produce that amount of quality material on an almost daily basis. Well done … and I hope you treat them well. ++++ I am an ex-journo and an ex-legal academic and I sometimes struggle to put out quality ( I hope!) material once a week. But then I am aged 77. Keep up the good work. Alan Story, THE LEFT LANE. Norwich.
The team is:
Me
My wife (reviews media all day, edits the videos for typos as I am terrible at them, contributes a lot of ideas for videos (10%) and posts (25%)
My younger son – videographer and editor
That’s it
BUT, if I do a book I may add a researcher
I miss the marshes of East Anglia from my school days, so thank you for the pictures. Meanwhile I went to a talk by Simon Reeve – interesting, although I have to admit to having been in places like the Kalahari Desert and the Sahara a few decades earlier than his visits, but that is age (and opportunity) – apart from his adventures, he stressed climate change and mental health – he left us with a ‘motto’ less screen, more green’ – very meaningful.
whoops – age diminishes memory –. Amend to my previous comment re Simon Reeve – I think I was in the Kalahari desert and Sahara (Southern and Central Maroc, Sudan, Egypt +) around the 1950s into the 1960s – so 60/70 years ago – the Thar desert was around 40 or 45 years ago with amazing memories of nomads and hospitality & one of my best photos (with their permission).