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Well, look on the bright side. At least on this jolly jaunt they won't be killing Johnny Foreigner and committing war crimes. They might even break their own necks.

As I was piddling here and there on my bike today, I thought about the question of 'miel', and I seemed to remember that it was one of those French words that is used somewhat generically to mean a class of somewhat similar things, in this case sweet, syrupy things, in the same way that crème can al...

That's right. And have ourselves a republic so we can deselect them if we find them too annoying.

We should take the French option.

Let me throw another spanner in your works;

I seem to remember reading something about sugar beet growing in the UK being rather disastrous for the land - loss of topsoil and biodiversity. That would also be something to consider in your equation.

How about growing/producing your own sweeteners?

Tell lots of lies about never having had shoes until the age of twenty, and having fought in both world wars.

That's right. Some evenings you can actually watch both the sun and the moon sink below the horizon within a few hours of each other.

Leaving just that rather drab gif in the sky.

Thanks for posting this. I signed the declaration.

As usual with these things, there are already laws in place for dealing with those times when an actual crime against somebody is committed.

That's easy. There's a small "Image Not Available" gif posted in the sky.

Sex is actually the answer. Men like to have sex in order to feel like men, and if there's no pleasant means of contraception around when they feel like having sex, then they won't think too hard about the consequences. I think you're probably projecting our culture onto another one, and ignoring so...

I've seen thrushes eating garden molluscs. But not frogs or toads. Could you possibly send me a breeding pair of thrushes? Thanks.

I don't suppose you have any bamboo groves in Scotland? Bamboo is very good, and it's free for the taking here. A small, one-handed sledge hammer is very useful for making raised beds. If you bash in a few metal or wooden uprights, you can put all sorts of things in between them as horizontals. Bree...

It seems like a good idea to me, especially the all-plastic thing. I sometimes read PDFs on my Pocket PC (indeed, that's all I ever use it for now), and while not perfect, it's better than nothing. But printing manager Ralf Oberthuer believes that - even if paper isn't perfect - it's still far more ...

I'm very sceptical about frogs being voracious eaters of slugs. I have a pond and lots of frogs, but I also have slugs in Pharonic numbers. I have yet to see a frog chowing down on a slug.

Does anybody have any evidence that frogs and toads are at all effective?

In this particular case, it involves asking them to attend the UN Climate Meetings, which would be doing more than repeating the false mantra that emitting less CO2 will hurt the economy.

It is of course, a long shot though.