Iceni warrior

I'm sure the King will be devastated to hear of your lack of support. Like it or not though he is your King now.

The Queen is dead. God long live the King.

Charles already arrived at Balmoral with William on his way. The family seems to be gathering. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62836057

Dogs? Does Georgia have anew friend to play with?

Years spent arguing on internet forums instead of going out and getting laid.

Like you'd support any effective plan that came from government. ''Government bad'' is your only mantra.

I wonder how we managed before it came along? Nice sisal ropes and nets probably. You could turn all that government hemp into rope.

I bow to your knowledge on industrial shrink wrap. Apparently they use stars and stripes plastic to wrap their hay in the former colonies. A more colourful vista in the countryside at least than our dour black.

It not about the money. It's about using less single use plastic.

I just can't think of a more effective method. I bet if shrink wrap was twice the price the bean counters would be telling you to use less.

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.