CLOSURE

It’s not what we want but it’s happening. For the last six months I have been desperately trying to photograph, film, blog, get letters published in the press, inviting Sir Keir and Ed Miliband to stay and screaming into a void.

Now it is time to heal. Turn left out the door not right. The trees on the bike ride to Minsmere RSPB shingle and shangle in the tall light green avenue, flecks dancing on the tarmac. At RSPB they have created brambles for the nightingales and have an influx of displaced wildlife. I will volunteer half a day week and learn how to house turtle doves, woodpeckers, nightingales in my strip of ancient woodland.

I enjoyed The Telegraph piece but it can be levelled as NIMBY. No farmers. No working class locals who enjoy dog-walking. The real problem is drought. For the birds at RSPB Minsmere, for the onions, broad beans, potatoes in the fields, for human consumption. Using sprinklers for dust management is obscene. Sizewell C needs to build massive reservoirs not drain the Wetlands and Northumbria’s water supply. When the flash floods pour down we need to capture that water for the extended periods of drought.

While SZC continues to scar, it is time to heal and balance their onslaught with havens for trees and birds and animals.

And humans.