Looking around the shops this morning, I was struck by the crazy amount of tat that is on sale ,supposedly for Christmas. This stuff arrives on our shores in hundreds of shipping containers every year, and most of it is just useless junk. I wonder what percentage of this stuff will be going to landfill by this time next year. Meanwhile......Councils in this this country get fined thousands and thousands of pounds if they fail to meet the 'green' recycling targets that are set by our wonderful EU friends in Brussels each year. What a mad, crazy country...and world...we live in!