Tough, they're a private company now. They need to make money. And if they can't, they either go under or they get nationalised. Whoever could have foreseen a situation like this? 🙄

It seems to me that nationalisation might be a good option right now. Just maybe it shouldn't have been privatised in the first place. 🤔

This isn't really surprising. 25 years after planting the trees are still young. Some won't have even had their first seeding season. Few if any will have fallen to rot and contribute to soil quality. Come back in another 75 years and I suspect they'll still be a measurable difference.

Unexpected LOTR.

Weird. One moment (only this weekend) I'm reading about Pine Marten reintroductions and how that's helping red squirrels reestablish themselves, and what a success that's being. And the next I'm reading about the demise of the ref squirrel and how something needs to be done about it.

Yes agreed. I had effects after COVID first round for a good 18 months. I still sometimes wonder if it's really gone, if I ever truly went back to baseline or just accepted a new slightly different reality. I'm sure others are like me.

Wild fires above the Elan Valley. I drove over there on Sunday evening and it was quite spectacular.

I've still got some 😅 stocked up in Aldi as they were selling them off at under half price on the Tuesday after Easter. Tbh I think I'll be sick of them before I've finished them 😯

This really isn't surprising, as more and more we're being discouraged from visiting our GPs. Things I would have gone to see my doctor about 20 years ago I know wouldn't even think about bothering, because it's such a palava to even get an appointment. So I just hope for the best and hope it will pass. Sometimes that might mean something that could have been prevented isn't prevented.

And then of course there's diet. But let's not lose sight of the state of healthcare.

Sounds like they have caught him; 50s, male. They're asking people not to speculate, so I won't. But obvious thoughts are in my head.

That doesn't make a huge amount of difference, especially with young people. One would never assume that a young person from south Wales doesn't speak Welsh. They quite likely do.

Actress Mali Ann Rees said inclusivity was key to encouraging more people to speak Welsh, with "no excuse" for unconscious bias.

There's a huge irony here for me. I called out such unconscious bias once, which was actually perpetrated by a black Welsh speaker against an Asian from South Wales. She called me a racist for calling her out! And Reddit being Reddit, she was then upvoted and I down

I won't forget that. It still intensely annoys me. So thanks Mali for taking my side here.

" An estimated 700 people die or are injured each year in the UK due to colliding with the animals" - which is slightly more believable. The summary above is probably AI.