The radio show, The News Quiz is a satirical look back at the week’s news. It’s been off air for its summer break but was back on the airwaves in the UK this week.

The host started the show with a monologue. What with AI and the massive computing power that’s available today, he asked the question of the new BBC News Condenser AI robot, “What’s been happening in World for the last three months while we’ve been off air?”

The sound of a printer chundered away in the background and out came a picture of Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream.’  His next comment was…..AI technology has got seriously good now. 😂

I’m not a journalist or a high profile commentator but the World mood is sadly, in my opinion, currently coloured by hyperbole, lies and high profile egotistical men. And I deliberately say men and not women. I won’t name names. I don’t need to.

This intensely concerning situation could not have been further from my warm and uplifting hedgerow walk last weekend. All the photos above were taken on my two hour stroll around a Nottinghamshire Nature Reserve. I know hedgerows aren’t everyone’s pleasure outlet. I will encourage you however to reflect on the richness and amazing thing that nature is. The human race has designed and built amazing things but raw nature will always win in a head to head competition, if I’m the head judge.

I stopped and chatted to a fisherman who was placing battered plastic bottles he’d pulled out of the riverbanks into litter piles by the track. He said “There are piles all the way along the path. I’m going to put them in my car when I drive back and get rid of them appropriately.”

I want to live a world where people are kind and care. I want this man in my club.