Make Britain a hostile environment for foreigners?

It has been a bad week really - a diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease for one, a diagnosis of M.S. for another's daughter and a friend's dog being hit by a car and left with three useless legs, one of which will probably have to come off.

Oh, and there was an attempted break-in at my country workshop. The villains stripped as much lead off the details as they could, breaking many roof tiles in the process. They left the lead in a pile for some reason, and they also left a large pair of bolt-cutters nearby. People are surmising that they were disturbed in the progress of the crime, but I am nurturing a far more satisfying theory - that one of them fell from the roof and was taken away with (I hope) a broken leg or two - or three, if that is not being too greedy.

The wind has swung to the East again, but that will not put us off going to the bluebell woods tomorrow. I heard a woman talk about a huge bluebell wood which - in ancient times - was joined to the now Savernak Forest. I was half asleep so did not get the precise location. Maybe someone can tell me. I am guessing it is somewhere in Wiltshire, East of Savernak.

The woman said that  - besides the danger of Spanish bluebells taking over (far more robust and a much paler colour) the biggest threat to our natives is the equally foreign Muntjac deer. It simply adores bluebell bulbs. Apparently Muntjac meat is simply adorable too. There is a plan to be made here. I know - train the Muntjacs to eat only Spanish bluebells and when they have done the job we can get rid of two invasive species in one go.

No matter what your feelings about globalisation are, you can most certainly blame the near plague proportions of hostile foreign invasion on it. We used to blame Victorian botanists, but now it can be as simple as buying an interesting foreign tree or flower - plus the small families of creatures that live in it.