A Walk in a Swamp

[Revoltingest]

No, but my wife was French and I did the cooking (she was a workoholic and we would have starved if she had been in charge of the kitchen). So certain standards were expected. And as a chemist (now in retirement), I jolly well ought to be able to read and execute a recipe.

Makes sense.
I prefer to leave wimin's work to the wimin.

 

[John53]

We have the herons in London, though not the others.

When I was at school, rowing on the Thames, herons were unheard of. There were almost no fish in the river, just used contraceptives (particularly disgusting if they got stuck to the end of your oar) and the occasional dead dog. Today herons are everywhere, not only on the Thames but in any public park with water. People with goldfish ponds have to take precautions. The water is immeasurably cleaner. (You can still wreck a sculling boat on an upturned supermarket trolley at low tide, though.)

I remember back in the 70's there was a news story here in Australia about someone catching a fish in the Thames. Good to see the environment has had a bit of a win for a change, doesn't happen very often.

 

[exchemist]

I remember back in the 70's there was a news story here in Australia about someone catching a fish in the Thames. Good to see the environment has had a bit of a win for a change, doesn't happen very often.

Yes, plenty of fish in the Thames now, even the occasional salmon. Fish ladders have been installed alongside all the weirs. I think in fact water quality generally has gone up hugely. Just goes to show what can be done, once government and industry get the bit between their teeth and make real change happen. Now, we need the same effort on CO2 emission and non-critical use of plastics. On CO2 it is under way, (painfully, in some countries, including Australia). I was surprised and impressed to find that, even here in the UK, 25% of electricity generation is now from renewables. In N Europe the figure is a lot higher. On plastics we are at the starting gate. Here's hoping.......

 

[John53]

Yes, plenty of fish in the Thames now, even the occasional salmon. Fish ladders have been installed alongside all the weirs. I think in fact water quality generally has gone up hugely. Just goes to show what can be done, once government and industry get the bit between their teeth and make real change happen. Now, we need the same effort on CO2 emission and non-critical use of plastics. On CO2 it is under way, (painfully, in some countries, including Australia). I was surprised and impressed to find that, even here in the UK, 25% of electricity generation is now from renewables. In N Europe the figure is a lot higher. On plastics we are at the starting gate. Here's hoping.......

We started doing something about CO2 emissions then the far right started spreading BS about electricity prices, then a change of government and a reversal of policy. Electricity prices have sky-rocketed anyway.