Abolish the Water Closet

After heavy rain water mixed with sewage has been discharged into rivers and into the sea. Subsequent discussion has ignored the part played by the water closet. Sewage is a mixture of human bye-products with a large quantity of water. The odious mixture is made in the water closet. Without those monstrous engines of pollution and disease there would be no sewage.

At one time human effluvia were valuable commodities. The solid and semi-solid material was used as fertiliser. People collected it and sold it to functionaries called 'night soil collectors' who paid for it and re-sold it to grateful farmers. The nitrogenous liquid we produce was used in the tanning business.

Water closets should be replaced by some device to convert our products into dry, sterile briquettes we could sell to the successors of the night soil collectors.

A Depleted River

When I went shopping yesterday I looked at the River Welland, expecting to observe the effect of the quite heavy rain that fell the previous night. I had to look quite hard to see any water at all. The trickle of water in the bottom of the channel was mainly concealed by the dense vegetation that has grown up during the drought.

Home Produce in season

I've just started to harvest home grown tomatoes and lettuce, always very satisfying