Had great discussion in the pub this evening and came up with a cracking business idea that’s also environmentally friendly.

We’re going to genetically modify the standard Sea Sponge and create a “Super Sea Sponge”. This new version will bring with it all the advantages of its former incarnation, i.e. lives in sea, absorbs water etc..etc.. but we’ll increase its capacity to breed rapidly and grow to 4 times the size of a regular sponge. In addition, our adult Super Sea Sponge has legs, which will enable it to walk out of the sea and wring itself out thoroughly before heading back into the sea to absorb its own size in water again. It is hoped that over the next 10-15 years we will see sea levels lower and become very wealthy in the process… (obviously we’re not in it for the money - saving the planet will be reward enough)

However, after chasing down our brilliance with a couple of JD’s we had the realisation that we might not be the first to explore this avenue of thought. Perhaps trials of a fresh water version of the Sponge are currently taking place in the South East of England, and proving more successful than anticipated - as this would go some way to explain the current hose-pipe ban in our area.