London

And now we have a Labour London Mayor but Zac’s constituents have put him (at #1) way ahead of Sadiq (#41) in this list. Across the UK, the average number of signatures on our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is 54 – only nine (of 73) London constituencies are above average. We know that…

Sunday book review – Rivers Run by Kevin Parr

Kevin Parr wrote the book that I selected as my favourite of 2014, The Twitch – that one was a black comedy, though very funny, I thought, about a murderous twitcher. This book is very different, and is about Parr’s greater love – fishing. And it’s not a laddish tale of bonking, drinking and murder…

Happy Birthday Sir David!

  Happy Birthday Sir David!  90 years young and an inspiration to so many of us. Last week Sir David launched London Wildlife Trust’s Woodberry Wetlands nature reserve, where he said:  ‘Contact with the natural world isn’t a luxury… it is actually a necessity for all of us.  All we know about the natural world…

I object!

I’m not the only one to have objected to this retrospective planning application for a ‘temporary’ track to a line of grouse butts.  You could object too, but comments have to be submitted by Monday so it is a job for this weekend. At the time of writing this post, all 30 comments are objections…