2026

I’m back. I have never been so angry in my life. I was shouting out loud in the night. Haven’t done that since Mum died in 2017 when I sang snippets of her life out loud all night long.

So. It’s happening already. Sizewell C cut down 30,000 trees at Sizewell and then act surprised when the coastline erodes. People are losing their homes to the sea at Thorpeness, three so far. 10 metres of coastline eroded over the week, 5 over the weekend. Add to this the sea defences which put pressure on Walberswick to the North and Thorpeness to the South and you have a right erosion pickle.

Man cannot stand up to nature. We are building two nuclear reactors on eroding sand at a cost of £40 billion to the taxpayer and a price hike on our fuel bills. Disconnect. Starmer and Miliband still haven’t been here. We have to accept that growth needs to be in tune with nature not against it. We could all be self-sufficient with solar on our roofs. Water is the next major issue. We are not capturing or harnessing our flash floods and we are not ready for drought especially when houses are built on flood plains and water meadows and Sizewell C are using two million litres of drinking water a day.

But why am I really angry? Because they are walking all over us. While I’ve had my head in Jane Austen Comes to Aldeburgh archaeologists in orange have been digging up a treasure trove in the field up the road by Moat Road. We have let them record and remove our national heritage without a murmur. It will be on Digging For Britain, BBC2. SZC claim to be proud to have unearthed this momentous discovery so that they can put tarmac on top of it. They will be showing artefacts in Yoxford Village Hall. Why not Theberton Village Hall. Then where do they go? What about he burial mound in my garden? I reckon the site is huge.

Time to invoke my inner Anglo-Saxon warrior.

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