| Make sure to give your butts a good filling on 10:34 - Nov 8 with 440 views | NthQldITFC |
This stuff is creeping up on so many of us while we blithely go on as usual.
We are in DEEP SH!T.
On a lighter, more constructive note, I've paid for a plane to fly over Carrot Road today with an offer of payment to any Nodge fans who would like to come and cry into my water butt instead!
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| Make sure to give your butts a good filling on 10:39 - Nov 8 with 428 views | Ryorry |
In North Yorkshire there’s been a drought in four out of the last five springs (2024 was the exception).
In both 2023 and 2025 there was *no* measurable rain for 8-10 weeks between March and the end of May. And we’re 600’ feet up in the Pennines, just on the east side. |  |
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| Make sure to give your butts a good filling on 10:48 - Nov 8 with 409 views | Ryorry |
| Make sure to give your butts a good filling on 10:34 - Nov 8 by NthQldITFC |
This stuff is creeping up on so many of us while we blithely go on as usual.
We are in DEEP SH!T.
On a lighter, more constructive note, I've paid for a plane to fly over Carrot Road today with an offer of payment to any Nodge fans who would like to come and cry into my water butt instead!
(I know, 'Brute!') |
Not just that, sorry to digress, but did you see Panorama on ’the devil trinity’ ( caught a few minutes here and there on last night’s repeat). Dusk, T.rump & that paypal guy scheming for global power with AI & crypto currency. Talk about the water consumption of data bases. And Dusk saying he thought there’s a 20% chance that AI could bring about the destruction of humankind. | |
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| Make sure to give your butts a good filling on 10:54 - Nov 8 with 387 views | Swansea_Blue |
This is when you want a really big butt.
But I’m sure that as we’ve known population is growing, that consumption per capita has been increasing for decades and that drier summers* have also long been predicted by climate models that the water authorities have been responsible custodians and invested in more Infrastructure and efficiency measures. I can’t imagine they’d not have prepared given all the trends and warnings [sarcasm off].
(*granted, wetter winters are also predicted although obviously the stress on the network is more during summers and even more after drier than average winters). |  |
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| Make sure to give your butts a good filling on 10:58 - Nov 8 with 374 views | giant_stow |
| Make sure to give your butts a good filling on 10:39 - Nov 8 by Ryorry |
In North Yorkshire there’s been a drought in four out of the last five springs (2024 was the exception).
In both 2023 and 2025 there was *no* measurable rain for 8-10 weeks between March and the end of May. And we’re 600’ feet up in the Pennines, just on the east side. |
8 weeks with no rain in yorkshire sounds mental |  |
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| Make sure to give your butts a good filling on 11:18 - Nov 8 with 334 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Make sure to give your butts a good filling on 10:48 - Nov 8 by Ryorry |
Not just that, sorry to digress, but did you see Panorama on ’the devil trinity’ ( caught a few minutes here and there on last night’s repeat). Dusk, T.rump & that paypal guy scheming for global power with AI & crypto currency. Talk about the water consumption of data bases. And Dusk saying he thought there’s a 20% chance that AI could bring about the destruction of humankind. |
I heard some stats for Ireland data centres recently and they were frightening. Given this is only just taking off, they already account for more than domestic energy usage. The water demands are also huge and there are concerns that water restrictions will be normal unless there’s significant increase in reservoirs. And this is for somewhere with high rainfall.
I have no confidence that genuine environmental sustainability concerns and plans are being factored into any of this. It seems to be just driven by greed, and it’s interesting to note that economic sustainability is questionable too with the news this week from the US that companies are already looking for a government bailout to expand AI. | |
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| Make sure to give your butts a good filling on 11:45 - Nov 8 with 279 views | Ryorry |
| Make sure to give your butts a good filling on 11:18 - Nov 8 by Swansea_Blue |
I heard some stats for Ireland data centres recently and they were frightening. Given this is only just taking off, they already account for more than domestic energy usage. The water demands are also huge and there are concerns that water restrictions will be normal unless there’s significant increase in reservoirs. And this is for somewhere with high rainfall.
I have no confidence that genuine environmental sustainability concerns and plans are being factored into any of this. It seems to be just driven by greed, and it’s interesting to note that economic sustainability is questionable too with the news this week from the US that companies are already looking for a government bailout to expand AI. |
It seems like a mental illness with those billionaires, because what on earth (!) use will their gross power and wealth be to them when they've wrecked the planet to get even more of it?
It defies all logic and reason. Who would want to live in a bunker where all civilisation around you is destroyed. Or wish that upon their kids/grandkids.
Bunkers. | |
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| Make sure to give your butts a good filling on 11:54 - Nov 8 with 260 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Make sure to give your butts a good filling on 11:45 - Nov 8 by Ryorry |
It seems like a mental illness with those billionaires, because what on earth (!) use will their gross power and wealth be to them when they've wrecked the planet to get even more of it?
It defies all logic and reason. Who would want to live in a bunker where all civilisation around you is destroyed. Or wish that upon their kids/grandkids.
Bunkers. |
They are indeed a bunch of bunkers!
I assume this is a bit like the dot com boom. People will be looking to get in, make their millions/billions and then get out before it goes belly up. Who cares if you raped than planet doing it as long as you get rich(er). | |
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| Make sure to give your butts a good filling on 12:18 - Nov 8 with 232 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
I planted some potted shrubs for a client last Thursday. Nine inches down, it was as dry as a biscuit.
Would usually in the past be starting to get bare rooted hedging and trees planted from the middle of this month. Not happening due to the stock still actively growing and the ground not wet enough.
Next to nothing in the diary as folk are reluctant to take the risk due to the dry hot summers of recent years so I’m still mowing and pruning back for the foreseeable. |  |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| Make sure to give your butts a good filling on 12:22 - Nov 8 with 216 views | Benters |
Mine are always full at the wrong time of the year it seems 😚 |  |
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| Make sure to give your butts a good filling on 13:04 - Nov 8 with 170 views | Churchman |
The cynic in me says this is more about water companies softening up politicians and people for price hikes to satisfy shareholders.
The water companies had no debt when they were flogged off for a packet of Hula Hoops. The buyers borrowed against the company to pay shareholders for years and invested Dixie squat in the infrastructure. In Portugal, a dry country, you can run the taps all day long. No water shortages, golf courses lush all year round. Why? Because they invested in the infrastructure, pure and simple.
This country drought or no drought is one of the wettest on the planet. It’s green and surrounded by water ffs. Shame the sea and rivers are used as a toilet because the water companies haven’t bothered investing a penny piece in managing sewage any more than they’ve made more than a token effort to deal with leaks.
Until they start dealing with the latter at the very least, I’m really not interested in hearing the excuses from them.
Do I have water butts? Yes, because it’s free and better for the garden so why not use it?
Cynical and inaccurate my feelings may be, but the water companies and governments of all persuasion have forfeited my trust in what they say over the years. |  | | |
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