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Not all slugs and snails are edible. So be extremely careful if experimenting.

Two important points though. Firstly, is the land privately owned farm land? Secondly, even if it is, how would that significantly improve farming space, given the proximity of that wall? Whether your friends are farmers or not, they are displaying limited critical faculties. At most I suspect...

Towns and the urban environment would be your best bet for survival foraging. The amount of food that supermarkets throw out the back would feed a family for ages.

No idea. Angry, reactionary, old, white men* have been acting spiteful and cruel for ages, on both sides of the Atlantic. No idea why anyone would be surprised it was committed by this demographic. We seem to be quick to throw our hands in the air at the actions of young people, but it seems to...

Yes, we've seen that repeatedly.

No, I can't see it happening either. But hope springs eternal.

No idea. But anyone can start a petition. So if there isn't you should do the right thing and start one! Otherwise it makes any protest sound hollow. Enact your democratic right!

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/638225 I've signed it.

Someone was out today having a stoatally awesome time...

That's not my experience. I wear good old Craghopper Classic Kiwis all the time (it's the zips on the pockets that does it for me) and I have NEVER had a pair go in the groin. And I do a reasonable amount of walking in them - up to 30 miles a week. I have three pairs on rotation and each pair...

Thanks ever so much to all those who have contributed (and looked at the thread) so far. To keep things going, here's a couple from yesterday's wanderings on the hills...

I would also add that the amount of waste you get (due to misprints and internal structures needed as the item prints) also adds to the wasteful nature of the product and its dubious effects on the environment as more (unnecessary) plastic becomes waste.

I have a good friend who uses a 3D printer for industrial purposes. I've seen a lot of the work he does. The plastic (and resin, if you have one of those) is easy to snap unless printed at great thicknesses. The printer he uses is an industrial one (well, a small industrial one) and way above...

I can't help but feel there's enough plastic tat in the world without adding more flimsy, brittle, plastic rubbish to the spoil heap. Not for me.

That's a good question. And I'd say, yes it does. It has a lot to do with us whether or not our ancestors created it or not. That's because it tells us a lot about how life on our little rock evolved and what species (any species) are capable of. And whilst our ancestors may not have done this...

Ramble away. I like a good ramble. Hold on...here comes another. Jacques Lacan coined the phrase 'The Mirror Stage'. He used this to describe that moment in a child's development when it looked in a mirror and no longer saw another baby but saw itself. The mirror stage is that moment when the...

Lifts. For me it's lifts. I will never go in a lift. I'd sooner walk up 50 flights of stairs (and I have). But I will NEVER go in a lift.

Digby: The Biggest Dog In The World

Actually, Baskervilles has got me thinking. News reports of dog attacks do feed into the archetype of the 'demon dog'. The Barghest, The Black Dog, Gytrash, Cerberus, Hell Hounds, The Wild Hunt. These are the ones that immediately come to my mind, and I'm sure all cultures have legends of demon...