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This story is carried by Guido which gives it more crediblity.
I see from the Express Tersa May has now sidelined Domanic Rabb and taken over the negociations here self. I gess he was driving a hard bargin and not soft enough for her. I do hope he resigns followed by Andrea Ledsom and Micheal Gove. Has she go some sort of death wish ?
Just returned from a visit to the gardens of the Duke of Devonshire's pile - Chatworth House where I saw a display of raw power that is unlikely to be noticed by most visitors without geological training. Within the gardens is a rock garden, the like of which I have not seen before. In China there are classical gardens replete with fretted limestones from lake shores, but they pale into insignificance compared with Chatsworth. The rockery has what appears to be outcrops of cross-bedded sandstone up to 14 metres high which from a distance you could believe were in place. Closer, however, you see the "outcrops" are built from large blocks of rock up to two metres long and a metre high with cement grouting between them. The whole rock masses are 3D jigsaws. Several. natural rock outcrops from outside the garden have been broken up into huge blocks probably with rock chisels, dismantled and transported to Chatsworth, there to be reassembled. And this was done in the 1840s. What arrogance, what a demonstration of power, flaunting one's ability to move even the countryside around.
Greenies would have apoplectic fits.
Strange that none of the descriptions of Chatsworth Gardens I consulted mentions how the rock garden was constructed nor where the original rock outcrops were.
We're all going to fry. From the Met Office via the DT so it must be true...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/24/heat-could-stay-extra-three-degrees-warming-2080/?li_source=LI&li_medium=li-recommendation-widget
R4 now "tier point runs"
"Business/First class club members deliberately take ridiculous amount of unnecessary flights otherwise they lose their tier status
.. eg multiple there and back flights with maximum stop offs in one day, just to clock up air mileage points.
stewgreen
so.... GMG become predominantly a "broadcaster". - Albeit one that flouts Wilkins Micawber's dictum.
So today's Guardian has the story that I mentioned : yesterday's BBC Woman's Hour guests talking about their all female Climate podcast.
It's as if there was a connection between the BBC and the Guardian.
In March this year I started to care about the planet
What is it with The Guardian that they persistently manage to overtop "Peak Guardian"?
@AK
The Rockery was built as a reminder of the 6th Duke’s visit to the Alps during the Grand Tour of Europe. Work began in 1842 and the stone was brought from Dobb Edge, north of Stand Wood.