Land crabs yes!
But what about land lobsters? Rock Lobster just leads to the B-52s.

From Wikipedia:

"Clawed lobsters are not closely related to spiny lobsters or slipper lobsters), or to squat lobsters. The closest living relatives of clawed lobsters are the reef lobsters and the three families of freshwater crayfish."

"Lobsters live up to an estimated 45 to 50 years in the wild, although determining age is difficult."

"Lobsters are found in all oceans. They live on rocky, sandy, or muddy bottoms from the shoreline to beyond the edge of the continental shelf. They generally live singly in crevices or in burrows under rocks."

The point being it isn't just the apparent left-wing common purpose bias of the coverage that is the problem, it is also the priority of stories. Real stories, real reporting edited out in favour of trivia. Probably not for political reasons per se, but just TV show reasons, like lack of pictures or convenience because plastic cup stories can be prepared days ahead.

And now I wonder why I didn't see anything about the Swiss referendum on the BBC. Maybe I didn't wait long enough before switching over from the extensive coverage of women's day and plastic cups.

There was a docu on German Tv at the weekend, discussng the vote in Switz on ther TV licence ( they kept it ). BBC was only brefly mentioned, but they chose to nterview D Dimbkeby who recounted how Mrs T never took down the BBC because "The BBC is more popular than politcians."
I found myself shouting "That was 30 years ago, you senile old fool !"

Land Crabs
In Fr Polynesia they grow wine on some islands. Crabs like to live under the vines in holes and eat the young plants. They are tolerated because when the crabs eventually die in their burrows, they make great fertiliser ( how long does a crab live ?)

Well SuperT
I was more concerned about the deal concerning the long vexed question affecting fishing - and that these folk are in who are making these decisions reality 'remainers' - it's a bit dodgy having these folk to mind the shop - you mightn't have anything to sell when you get back. But if you think that they won't rob you then that's alright then - I s'pose. But not for me!

Mar 9, 2018 at 8:35 AM | rhoda
My one of biggest gripes is the dumbing down of Mastermind. In the early years, Magnus' tenure, the questions were short and direct and scores in excess of 30 points with no passes were not unknown. Since the welsh windbag took over questions have increased in length for no good reason and scores reduced, he considers a mid 20s score exceptional. The show's title gives a hint as to what it's about. It's doubtful that Kevin Ashman could break the 30 barrier in the current format.

This is one example I could include Panorama, Horizon and many Radio 4 programmes in the list.

But there still many BBC programmes I do like watching and find interesting, despite the addition of Climate Change to most of them. We have a guess where the Climate Change will come competition as an anger management tool.

Rhoda

You left out the endless cooking shows. Dimbley does not even try to hide his bias. On last nights QT he interupted Dr. Fox in mid flow yet allowed the woman from Labour to rant on spouting a load of Left propaganda way off subject.