There are exceptions - check them out on your water company website. I found this on mine, so despite a hosepipe ban from tomorrow, where I live, I am able to continue to use a hosepipe if I wish.

I discovered some volunteer squash plants earlier in the year and decided that as they seemed to want to grow, I would let them. I transplanted them into a raised bed and that's where the problem lies. Because now, I've had to offer support to maintain the health of the plant. What you can't see in this picture is the makeshift hammock on the left, which is holding that part of the plants up. They are rapidly growing along the hooped wire panel on the right. I fully expect them to keep going..... I may not be able to get in the cage at this rate..... 😂

Wondering how far you all have to go to get produce is it tricky or is it getting better for you. I can get eggs milk yoghurt, could get cheese but dont, dont eat meat but theres a few sources. I cant get fish, grow almost all my own veg and fruit. I dont grow alot of potatoes and carrots, I like to leave that for the farmers, theyre easy crops for them and should at very east be growing them on their land. Butter and cream -difficult, unreliable. Obviously we will not be able to get everything whether time, economics, unavailability. Theres alot of travelling around though, its a deterrant. Needs solving.

Hi Mark. Hope you are well, good to see you still pushing forwards and speaking up...I've been off socials for a while...I noticed that you belong to CABI. I attended a presentation many moons ago, and they also visited a project that I started in lockdown , several years ago now, in lancs... Have just watched your recent video on YT and felt called to share my ponderings...i do check in on them every now and then as I muse over solutions and cycle back around old ones to see how certain options may be developing, in hopes that there is a tangible route. I agree with those who state that this is happening organically and gradually however we do still need an infrastructure whereby we can work together and share resources and solutions and good news collectively...CABI does present as a solution, along these lines, and did give me great hope and inspiration, back when I first heard of them... What stands out for me, years down the line after covid and the lockdowns , is that, the surge of realisation that perhaps we were not as safe as we might like to think, in the hands of our government led many of us to stand up and fight against the system.... I absolutely do not dispute the reasons many made these decisions, however, I do feel that identifying as 'against ' the system overtly, made us separate in our quest to bring us together. Filtering the truth to people via fear and anger in a time when we were all scared shitless, whichever side of the coin we were staring at , caused people to push away and isolate themselves or isolate those who were trying to help.. I do not doubt that a parallel system is needed...however my feeling is that by outlining ourselves as 'separate'- ...in terms of 'recruiting ' the masses, is not going to be successful. Largely bc people love to be like everyone else, and be virtuous...and they struggle to change. Fear it. Now that doesn't mean we shouldn't raise concerns...we should continue to preach to the converted and build on that...

With the world going slightly bonkers and lots of people losing sight of goodness, i just wanted to share how sweet it is, that in my local area, people are still selling little plants at the roadside. When people have no use for household items, they will pop them outside by their gate and offer them forward. There is even a kindly person , who pops a big bag of potatoes out, every couple of weeks, for people to help themselves. My grown up children also tell me we have a local barter page on FB (i dont have FB). I hang onto those lovely kind things that people still do, and hope that these people will slowly show others that being kind is good.