But also, the idea of eradicating raspberries is hilarious. I’m pulling shoots out from between the strawberries every day.

Yeah it’s our first year and we have 5 chilli plants in. The other half of the greenhouse has capsicums. We have a LONG history of over-doing it with what we plant.
Eg after all our seedlings made it we now have 9 courgette plans and definite concerns for our upcoming zoodlepocalypse

To be fair, it’s not suddenly. The quality of infrastructure planning hasn’t been great for quite some time. The current redundancies will just make it even worse.

Ditto. I already had a Kindle, bought a Kobo for the library. I may or may not have borrowed a workmate’s address so as to be able to utilise a better/different library too.

Working in civil engineering, the saying goes that suburbs/subdivisions are named after the thing destroyed to create them. Bird in the name? Habitat ruined. Watercourse? Been polluted. And so on.
We do need houses for people but also need to not destroy the environment to build them!