Sandra Chapman: It is not just humans suffering in this heat

The crows move in, steal the food and turn over the water containers by standing on them.

This week I counted no less than six wild animals run down on our roads, left a mush, their legs pathetically reaching skyward.

They try to skip across busy roads probably to get to what they may think is a better supply of food on the other side only to meet an early death. Fresh water resources are declining too for the creatures that depend on them.

If humans think they are having a tough deal in a heatwave then it’s nothing to what our wildlife is facing.

Human worries are more to do with the horrendous rises expected in the cost of electricity later this year, with rates also rising but hopefully not by the same percentage; the likelihood that dental care may come at a price since a majority of dental outlets are no longer privately owned; the NHS crisis – now where should I start on that one – and probably the one most essential to us all – water - which is badly affected in the southern part of the nation because of drought. Thankfully we are not as afflicted here with water shortages as they are in England where extremes of weather have decimated reservoirs. But there could be problems ahead for water supplies of the type one would never have imagined.

I read this week that dozens of reservoirs in England have been sold by water companies to housing developers while no new ones are being built to replace them. Could that happen here? Our politicians have a lot to answer for.

The UK government is leaderless at the moment whilst our Executive is mothballed. My little brain was never designed to deal with all these horrors at the same time.

But wild life desperately fighting over food and other creatures dying in the declining waters that normally give them life in this climate change era is too terrible to think about. Sir David Attenborough did warn us a long time ago that such things could happen.

Back to electricity costs a subject that is sending the nation into turmoil.

My own bill comes to a few pounds under £1,000 a year. The possibility that that could triple at least is enough to give me the shivers. I don’t use gas but I do have a wood burning stove which obviously is not ideal but it means I can use less oil.

In these days of scorching heat Himself and I, like so many other householders, have sat down to discuss the changes the people of the world will have to adopt to save the earth and all in it.

I really do not wish for Earth to be a little dead ball somewhere out in the galaxy which people of the future will blame for destroying what went before.

Maybe we can leave little messages for them in grave-type places explaining how and why it all happened and how sorry we were we didn’t pay enough attention years before to Sir David Attenborough.

We should also leave them information on how we were all failed by our politicians when the likes of the Scottish leader Nichola Sturgeon was fighting for a state independent of the UK and how certain of our own politicians were banging on doors in America and Australia in support of a united Ireland and why Donald Trump thought he should be America’s President again.

We could send recordings of our resistance to all this nonsense when families with limited incomes were trying to avoid starvation and our wild life couldn’t fly across a road for food on the other side without being whacked to death by a car.

The UK very definitely needs a new leader for these difficult times.

Somehow I think the two in the race do not cut it.