I’ve started to explain how we got into this ridiculous state of affairs where everyone duplicates the same structures again and again through this country; everyone has their own: car, house, phone, computer etc. Its a lot of extra work and its a lot of waste as most of this goes unused most of the time. However it has evolved and we are for the time being stuck with it.
Its not just us however that suffer because of this problem. Foraging animals that require habitats in different shapes and sizes to us get excluded by the repetitive parcelling up of resources. Had this argument with my mother who is hell bent on isolating her house and garden from the outside world. Watching Springwatch this year and being alerted to this project http://www.hedgehogstreet.org/ it seems I wasn’t wrong. Our hedgehog was found face down in the frost a couple of years ago starved on its meagre rations from our 1/3 acre garden and presumably trying to top up unsuccessfully with food in the winter it died. Now if we had a vegetable patch we’d be over run with slugs (their favourite food of which they eat about 200 a night) and my mother misses our little friend. A parable being written large in Man’s habitation of Earth!
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