Rant

You know how it is. However chilled and laid back you try to be, there will occasionally be a set of circumstances that makes your blood boil, sets your teeth on edge and generally tousles your just-combed hair. Every so often you just have to get something off your chest. Well, this is where I spout forth on all those topics that scrape a finger nail down the blackboard of my world view. If you have firm opinions on any of the following, tread carefully...

• Loss of biodiversity in our landscape
• Typos, the Greek God of spelling mistakes
• Lack of sustainability in our agriculture
• Progress for progress's sake
• A rapidly rising human population
• Lack of form of Middlesbrough Football Club
• Shrinking habitats

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