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Still short of fuel in Ontariariarioioio. How would you cope if you couldn't buy fuel for your vehicle? How would you get to and from work? If you run a business, what would happen to it in the event of supplies being disrupted? Get used to thinking about these questions.

Also relevant to Canadia, 9-year-old Canajan citizen held in US detention centre. His parents are not Canajan, see. Anyone know more about what's going on here? Anyone have an address for Canajans to write to about this? Also, is this FBorFW comic a comment on it?

Green Feet will be a sustainable evening of dancing somewhere in North London on Friday, 1st June. You are invited to come along in your finest recycled outfit. I really ought to get around to making that reflective road-cone dress sometime soon... but if not, perhaps some plastic-bag knitting (I've realised that I can spin the plastic bag strips rather than just knitting/crocheting with the strips themselves!) or even just my skirt of recycled silk from charity shops will do.

Trees and crops reclaim desert in Niger. I am getting more pro-tree all the time.

A few people have recently mentioned Earth shoes. ( oh, hell, I'm window-shopping )

miscellany

I think there is one of these in Greenwich Park; I've been calling it the "smiley face tree" because the first time I noticed it, it was in full flower, and the flowers looked just like the ones I think of little kids drawing with smiley faces in the middle - only, they didn't have actual smiley faces. Anyway, will have to go and have a look in April.

Osteopath says MBTs are okay for most people and if they are comfortable I should wear them - one of the things I need to do is really work on my hamstring flexibility, and they will help with that. Similarly Earth shoes would likely help with this. Neither should exacerbate any hypermobility problems. The other consideration is that any shoes I wear with any regularity have to have very well-cushioned soles - Crocs are great for this, but my current Ecco shoes are not (they're too hard). I may be able to make some headway with insoles, which is good news, but if not, then it's going to be "replace lots of ewtshoes" time. Because yeah, I can afford that. (I can afford that more than I can afford to be in pain because of something stupid like shoes, folks...)

big cat

Today between Grange Park and Winchmore Hill I looked out the window into the trees and saw a really big black cat. Really. Big. As big as a golden retriever, I'd say.

Any ideas what it might have been? I'm sure it wasn't a dog, the shape was all wrong.