Yesterday evening I went to an International Film Premiere which was strange in itself. But I knew about half a dozen people who appeared in the film and about half of the people in the audience! Weird! The film is called Poached and it’s about egg-collecting or egg-stealing – Poached! Geddit?! It’s a film about…
Author: Mark
Born Bristol, UK
Educated: Cleeve House School Bristol, Bristol Grammar School and Downing College Cambridge
Ph.D. University of Aberdeen, Winter activity of pipistrelle bats.
NERC post-doctoral Research Fellow, Edward Grey Institute, Oxford University
Former Conservation Director of the RSPB, 1989-2011
Letter to my MP
Dear Mr Pursglove I am a constituent of yours and, although it is extremely unlikely that I will ever vote for you, I would like to wish you well during your period as an MP. Being an MP is a great opportunity and also a great responsibility. I hope that your stay in the House…
Blackberries
I have been picking blackberries off this hedge for 30 years. I’ve blogged about it before (Season mists and …blackberries, 6 Sep 2010, Blackberry makes $1bn loss, 24 September 2013). This year the blackberries are numerous but very few of them are ripe, and even they are not…
It’s unpredictably good or bad
My late-flowering buddleia is a delight – in a good year. It’s too early to tell if this year is a good year. It really comes into its own in an indian summer when there are few other flowering plants around and it acts like a butterfly magnet. Yesterday afternoon there was this Painted Lady…
Not Woodstock but Blogstock
I arrived with low hopes at a soggy field in what used to be Middlesex on Saturday morning. So this was Blogstock was it? The security man on the gate told me that I was a VIP, which didn’t cheer me up that much and I headed off to a marquee from whose roof water…