Pass me the bucket...

* gillybob*

putting food on a birdtable will attract gulls sadly.
We only use feeders for this reason and have had to stop throwing apples etc to the blackbirds for this reason.
I shan't say another word {smile]

sorry bad eyes today

I know that pinkquartz but my DGC just love feeding "their" birds. They have a large tin where they have created their special mix (as per the RSPB recipe) that caters for most small garden birds. Thankfully the horrible seagulls can't negotiate the bird table but they do hover around and that's enough to scare the little birds away.

Well said Madgran, I can't believe the tone of this thread with some posters.

ps A friend of ours has created a wire ball cage for his bird feeder out of 2 flower baskets to prevent the larger birds grabbing the food

dinahmo. All I really meant, I suppose, was that we know the ‘powers that be’ are as aware of the coming catastrophe as the general population is; in some cases even more so. I just do not see that these sort of demonstrations are the answer.

It would be interesting to see how many XR members vote for the Green Party and how many actually contact their local MPs and councillors to tell them how they feel.

I do support the cause but am not convinced that this is the best way of doing things, I don’t have any alternative suggestions other than individually trying to reduce our owncarbon footprint and spreading the word to those who don’t.

Absolutely incredible that people moan about being delayed for work. The planet is dying! How easy it is to criticise what others are saying or doing - while doing next to nothing yourselves. Some seem to believe that recycling will save the world - hilarious!

I still need to work, whether the planet is dying or not.

Zero hours contract, 11 year old to keep, flat to run and bills to pay.

Hetty58 you know nothing of what anyone on here is or is not doing. Protesting in London and affecting the same people as last April will save the world will it? Do we just all go and join in, and that's our valued contribution? Or maybe some who are not using polluting decommissioned fire engines are actually doing more constructive things.
MissAdventure anyone with a brain cell or two would know that people with your circumstances are being affected. Apparently that's collateral damage and acceptable.

I agree with Hetty58. Recycling will do nothing to save this planet from becoming un-liveable on.

XR need to get their Citizens Assemblies set up so that government has to tackle the big issues.

Ordinary people must have a voice, and must be listened to.

They can only set those Assemblies up with co-operation of the government.

The government must declare a climate and ecological emergency NOW.

Don't you recycle then?

Citizens Assemblies have been shown to work well in Ireland (Gay marriage laws and abortion laws)

Sorry? Are you asking me that MissAdventure.

Are you even listening?!

The questioon is not worth answering.

Can we have some intelligent comments please?

Nope.
There's only me here so you'll have to make do with that.

Recycling is vwery important inasmuch as it will help to save marine life. It can't do anything to stop climate change.

Don't bother then. Too important to mess about. Sorry.

No way can this be trivialised.

from me now.

Too knackered from riding bike into town to stay up any longer.

Ok. I'll leave you with this.
environmentjournal.online/articles/why-recycling-needs-to-go-further-to-combat-climate-change/

Sweet dreams. X

People like MissA , my DD and myself NEED to be able to get to work. We NEED to earn money to feed and look after our families, pay rents, mortgages, bills etc (you know those essential outgoings that most people have ). We don’t have the luxury of pissing about in tents, spraying walls of government buildings with food dye, playing with fire engines and water, glueing ourselves to buildings and all the other stupid pranks that these idiots think will save the world .

But Govts are lobbied by global companies who don't want to stop making money

Do the Govts really hold the power any longer?

I don't know what we will do. I care about this and have done for 45 years but unless the way the world works alters a lot it won't change.

I don't care if people have a demo/party in the street so much but I don't believe it will change things.
How come every time the XR blocks the streets of London Parliament is not in session.....?
Please make their lives more difficult

gillybob you are trying to reason with people who cannot possibly empathise with anyone in your situation. For some, XR can do no wrong whatever transgressions they commit. I'm just glad this wasn't happening when I was traveling daily to St Thomas's hospital for radiotherapy. I was severely debilitated from chemo, and just the daily train journeys were almost unbearable. I really feel for anyone trying to get through the road closures this time. But hey, XR say there's always collateral damage, funny it's just never them affected.

Gonegirl have you actually looked at the Irish citizen's assembly? They were drawn from the electoral roll, many didn't actually turn up, replacements were drafted etc, the numbers reduced, but I agree they mostly returned opinions that reflected the public view. XR say that drawing from the electoral roll is not right, we need people not registered. Hmmm think the "leaders" will be wanting to "weight" the assembly with handpicked members.