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Hospital food was clearly a lot better back in Saxon times

House move, Amsterdam style

Ah-ha! Thought it was the most likely. There is a biocontrol spray that can be used on it (Xentari) but it's not legal for use by non-professionals and it needs to be applied at least three times per season, when caterpillars hatch out.

3mm more than me. Last useful rain was on 2nd June.

Indeed

A familiar story

The drought is really starting to bite now. This poor clustered bellflower was looking decidedly dehydrated #wildflowerhour

Simple. Stop burning fossil fuels.

Evacuation of the sixth biggest population centre in France under active consideration and some will still say "it's just Summer"

No I struggle with this heat now too. Box having a hard time of it - maybe the Box caterpillar that stripped it?

Ah, the golden aura of youth Dan. 1976 was extreme for the time, but we'll need to get used to that as the norm.

"But what about the summer of 1976?" Well indeed....

You see this frontpage and do genuinely wonder what on earth the conversation must have been between the senior editors when they were laying it out...

Glad we made it to Bordeaux by taxi last night and are now in the TGV train to Paris!

Vue de la Péninsule ibérique et de la France par #MTG d' @eumetsat.int . Les fumées des #Incendies envahissent quasiment tout le pays. Un fort système orageux se développe actuellement dans le Golfe du Lion avec en son sein de la grêle.

Voyager 1 can't phone home because we burned down one of the three receivers it can talk to. When Voyager launched in 1977 atmospheric CO2 was at 334 ppm.

We decided to get out. Not sure whether we would have still made it tomorrow. The main road Lacanau-Bordeaux is already closed. #GlobalHeating #Wildfire

Beach pictures from a climate scientist on holiday in France, 2026.

NEW – Factcheck: No, Europe’s heatwaves are not being ‘caused’ by declining air pollution ✍️ written by @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org 💬 with comments from Bjorn Samset, @erichfischer.bsky.social and Pedro Roldan-Gomez Read here ➡️ buff.ly/ukIO2fI

It's economic tipping-points like this I get the most excited about. When it's cheaper to do the smartest, lowest-impact thing, THAT's when stuff goes bananas: open.substack.com/pub/sammatey... (And it's when people who rely on existing systems to rake in massive profits start yelling the loudest).