What are you thinking right now?

[Minty]

Over here the pot growers do so in basement factories using hydroponics and artificial sunlight lamps. They wire themselves to an outside electricity source such as local streetlamps to cover their tracks (if the electricity board find a customer's usage jumping up to ludicrous levels they send an investigation team around as that's usually the first sign it's someone growing pot plants, & if refused entry that's when the police are tipped off).

They get caught if they stay in one place for too long, that is long enough for the electricity board to wonder about the outage in one particular street that has nothing in it but streetlamps and some disused industrial buildings.

What gets me about these idiots is that they could make a fortune growing hemp out in the open not for wacky baccy. The stuff is virtually a recession proof crop as it grows so fast even in British sunlight (a favourite student prank is to plant hemp seeds in any flower beds outside police stations & let nature take its course) and is used for so many products there's always a market for it. You can make clothes, rope, milk substitute, food, anti-inflammatory cream, insulation, vehicle panels (mixed with fibreglass), paper (it costs more to make, but doesn't deteriorate as quickly) & as a crop to decontaminate soil.

Thinking whether to risk a washing after last night's torrential rain. It has to be all out of rain clouds by now, but there's gulls squarking everywhere, which is not a good sign. Why do the gulls come further inland if there's bad weather at the coast anyway? Why does rain bother them when they'll happily spend all day with their bums in the sea?