I’d be very grateful if you would take this readers’ survey – which is partly a repeat of a previous survey just over a year ago. Your answers will be anonymous – I won’t know (and frankly, I’m not interested in knowing) what named individuals answered.
Last year I asked 12 questions, this year 11 of them are repeated, one dropped and a new set of 9 questions added. The most interesting questions are towards the end (I think).
I suspect you’ll find the survey quite interesting and it should only take you about 5 minutes to complete (unless you are uncertain about where you live, how old you are, and what you think about the world – in which case it could take ages and ages!).
I’ll probably close the survey at the end of next weekend and the results will appear soon after.
Click here to take the survey.
PS Today is World Wetlands Day.
I wonder how it’s being celebrated on the Somerset Levels.
PPS Next Sunday will see the return of Sunday book reviews.
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We visited Portland Harbour today and by the side of the road across from Weymouth to Portland which is a narrow shingle bank with road and grass verge then surprise a Skylark was there so perhaps not a permanent farmland bird after all.
I hope the residents of the Somerset Levels are celebrating their day?
Another worthy question in my opinion.
“Of the NGOs that you contribute towards in some way, which of their CEOs respond when written to or contacted via media?”
You might find results that some don’t like and prefer we didn’t know.
If the final question had been phrased differently, my answer might have been different. I’m not a huge fan of banning things, but more control over driven grouse shooting would be a good thing. But I don’t have a problem with rough shooting.
I do contribute to some surveys, and have to this one, but I find I am increasingly unhappy with the sometimes sparse choices we are offered, and the lack of an option to give a free-form answer, particularly when my true answer is more nuanced than the only choices we have.
Like Phil Charleton, I had difficulty with the last question. My true view simply cannot be expressed in the survey; like him, I would support some level of control over driven grouse shooting, and might just even be persuaded to support a ban, if evidence supported it, but I would have little, if any, difficulty with walked-up grouse shooting.