Brexiteers should be legally obliged to wear this graph (from ONS, published in Guardian) pinned next to their EU migration disinformation (Remember this? “EU loophole could see 77 MILLION Turks head to Britain, warn Farage and Johnson” Express).
Simply, clearly fact check their every utterance.

Phew:
Mine were sown early March, transplanted into greenhouse at the start of May, after some daytime hardening off. Now at stage of side shoots removal (some kept by in water in the hope of rooting to dot about the place).

Even in death, perhaps Pope Francis has brought about something that allows a glimmer of hope?
(Image from @theguardian.com)

A blackbird this morning, so intent on digging up food, its tail was getting covered in snowflakes.

Perhaps doubt really constant curiosity and an inclination to look behind the headlines and see the double “the!”

On a lighter note, here is the dawn scene looking eastwards from Borth-y-Gest, Porthmadog, Cymru, this morning. (I just shared this on Mstdn also).

Unhappy pump day in Dorset if you were at the controls of a steam traction engine.

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Leaving summer temperatures behind. Temperatures at 07:30 this morning (300' above sea level here). Middle row:
1, external near cottage, 2, external on veggie patch, 3: greenhouse (unheated).

Resisting evil has a long pedigree. Burke (1770): "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

#RoseWednesday you say - here outside the back door - they dip their heads under the weight of a night of rain. 🌱

Here's the latest

A garden resident who always scurries away whenever I tend to the veggie patch.

Not that any of the thugs will listen to her, but don't you just love this photo in today's Guardian?
I'd also add by private jet, or not at all. Some just pour forth their ill-informed or deliberately provocative misinformation from afar.
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