Iceni warrior

The big bales of hay get wrapped to make haylage for the cows and there's enough plastic to half fill a skip every year. It's not pretty.

Calm down Boston Tea Party. Taxes can be used for good as well as evil. We get government sauce on the farm for not ripping up hedgerows and exterminating the wildlife. We even get a bit of extra cash for a rare orchid which grows on the back meadow. If we've got money for war...

You can tax the worst polluters out of existence and save people money at the same time just by changing habits. Don't even get me started on adults who need a plastic straw to drink alcohol.

They did. They preached the virtues of ''bags for life'' for years to little effect. Once they imposed a tax (I think it was actually 5p when it started) people changed their habits quickly. I have some heavy duty Lidl shopping bags that must be five years old at least.

We started charging 10p for single use bags. The use of them fell by about 95% overnight. Everyone uses ''bags for life'' now instead.

Bloody right. One drunk poet, men singing in choirs and coal is all we've had out of them since the longbow. The best thing about Wales is the castles the English built to subdue them.

Bloody Tories and their Bolshevik state. I blame the Baroness, of course, with her environmentalist and globalist policies. Started the ball rolling with acid rain, ozone holes and ''there is no alternative''.

The Rhone in France and the Rhine in Germany are getting too shallow for the big transport barges. It's not just record temperatures there's also a serious drought going on all over the continent.

Shame you let it turn into a communist state then. Population high as giraffe pussy so they don't object too loudly. Modern version of the Victorian opium dens and gin alleys. Gladiatorial combat on the ice, Roman style, to get you through the winter months without revolting.

Even in the Conservative hellhole that is the Motherland I am able to self medicate with exotic Moroccan imports and panache made with German Pilsner and energy drink. God Save the Queen and bottoms up.

Exactly. Siesta in the afternoon and back to work when it cools down a little in the evening. We were talking about adopting the Mediterranean lifestyle tomorrow by starting early then quitting before noon for lunch and waiting until two or three hours before dusk to start again. Historically too much rain is the problem at harvest not being too hot too work. Blighty is warming up.

Well it was bloody hot again today and genetically I take more from my pale Ulster Granny than my swarthy Gibraltan Grandad. Not quite digging trenches but arduous enough for a softy civil servant's son like me. Don't even get paid. I do it for the privilege of living in my hovel rent free on the land. One day, maybe, when the workers control the means of production...?

I've just spent the day (well about 5 hrs) building shocks of wheat like a Victorian peasant farm labourer. Where's my Winter Palace to Storm?

Yes, and you said it in just 6 words. I'm off to toil the fields....

Stalin was created by the Nazis. He was a failure until Stalingrad.

Electric trains on their way to Auschwitz is wordSmithing at it's finest btw. Kudos.

Say what you will about the Nazis but they did more than anyone in the 20th century to reduce the population of Europe.

Well I just see money as a contrivance created to lubricate capitalism's destruction of the environment. Mere tokens compared to the wealth and beauty in Gaia.

Oh I hear you. The extremist nut jobs on the left are just as dangerous and as big a roadblock to progress. ''All extremists should be shot'' as the popular oxymoron goes.

Best to avoid all that nonsense then and try to create a less divisive society in the future. Come join me round the campfire for a drum circle and a rousing round of Kumbaya...

Like I say. Priorities. I live on a farm in Suffolk, England and for the first time ever the farmer has had to leave a tractor with a harrow attached ready to go in case he needs to make a fire break in a hurry. The muck gulcher has been filled with water ready to use as a makeshift fire pump. The crops are stunted enough due to drought conditions without losing fields full of ripe wheat to fire. So to me ''the nasty man made me cover my face'' is barely registering and if the actions required to stop this catastrophe from becoming a mass extinction look too much like Communism to some then tough. It's not high on my personal list of priorities.

You are right but it's not being required to wear a mask during a worldwide pandemic you should be worried about. It's having to wear one to go down town to protect you from the particulates coming out of millions of vehicle exhausts. There's not much point worrying about which is the best kind of boot to have on your neck when the world is on fire all around you. It's the same fear of admitting the truth that leads to denial but its not Communism or Fascism you need to be in fear of. So I think we agree on the fundamentals too but disagree about the priorities.

You have to admire the Dutch. Led the world in ship building, navigation and trade. Showed the British how to take over the world.

So more American than British then? Apart from the French and the indigenous obviously.

Well you say that but until you learn to love cricket it's not really true.