In these environmentally-friendly days it behoves us all to consider the impact of our actions. So Young Keith's suggestion that we just dump all the smashed pumpkin flesh we are currently extracting from the Moot House, would have been totally reckless. And since he suggested throwing it in the brook, we could have ended up being charged with polluting a watersource.
On the other hand, if we just leave it to rot it will end up discharging carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and assisting climate change. I'd hate to think that somewhere in Greenland there's a glacier with our name on it.
So we have decided to embark on a process of carbon sequestration. For two reasons, really - first because we just like the word "sequestration", and secondly because it was a very traditionally Beaker People thing, burying things in ritual holes. We've taken advice on this and we reckon, given the porous nature of the Greensand on which the Community lives, we need a hole about a mile deep which we can then cap off with a hundred yard depth of clay. Should keep the carbon down.
Hnaef will be handing out spades, and Burton will be banging the drum to encourage everyone to keep digging in time. Keep at it - remember this is for the good of the planet!
Anyone needs me, I'll be in the conservatory.
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