The COP carnival is long gone, its long list of cartoon characters representing humanity are but memories, the flashes of inspiration, the loads of insights and the promises have been replaced by life as normal, or as normal as a Covid world can be. Perhaps nature has come to reap its bad harvest. And to mark it all, here in this little market town we splayed the night sky with a ton of fireworks whose stench told us what foul polluters we humans are, to say nothing of the CO

Depressed? Damned? We are lemmings, but worse. Four thousand years ago, Hindu sages warned of Kali Yug, an age when materialism will over ride every other value. Perhaps they were right, for last week must go down as the saddest week in human history. The age of Kali Yug is here, now. All the hope the world put into COP26 has been evaporated by hot air loaded with CO2 emissions which will continue for decades. Those whom we chose to lead us have shown that they are lead by in

We stepped carefully through mud covering the roads, houses had sand bags across their doors, gates, driveways, but still the water had seeped inside. “The fields were rushes of floodwater, look,” a man pointed, “all the lovely topsoil wasted, on the road, in the river, into the sea, gone!” Various people were wheeling barrow loads of apples towards the Perry family’s farm where three men and two women of various ages and two infants were busy collecting as many apples as the

There in the Kenyan bush, he got it, although amongst teachers, it is said to be one of the hardest things to teach in geography, perhaps because three concepts need to spin together to make it clear. Today my wife, who has never totally grasped it, asked and, as it is that time of the year when everything is getting darker for us in the northern hemisphere, I picked up an orange and a satsuma. I know, we shouldn’t have bought these items which require transporting many miles

Adrenaline is amazing stuff. Last night our house was partially flooded due to my not being fit enough to sweep autumnal leaves from our courtyard. Despite my condition, we worked flat out for an hour and all was contained, but as soon as we stopped the adrenaline drained away and I was shattered. Sadly, other poor souls down the hill weren’t as fortunate - unthoughtful cars splashed waves of water through their front doors. For hours tropical loads of water fell from the sk

“Sunny all night, cloudy all day.” I leaned over and pecked my wife good morning. “What?” Half awake, she rubbed her eyes. For most of this year, the nights have been bright and starry and the days dismally grey with little rain. I know because, like most men my age, I get up several times in the night. “And where are the October gales?” “Next week’s rainy,” she was trying to get up to speed, yawning, rubbing those loving eyes. “Blinkin’ Climate Change, and the government’s s