Sunday book review – The Little Book of Spiders by Simon D. Pollard

This book is one of a series of Little Books which are little books but they pack a big punch. They will remind many readers of Observer books because they are a similar size, but don’t let the small dimensions make you think that these books are lightweights. Not at all. This volume deals with…

Moorland Ass

It’s difficult to tell whether the Moorland Association is still alive, it had shown few signs of life during the last years of Amanda Anderson’s reign and the patient still seems to be in intensive care under Andrew Gilruth’s tenure. It appears that the brains of the Moorland Association have decided that a ‘let’s kill…

Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 27 – by Nick MacKinnon

Nick MacKinnon is a freelance teacher of Maths, English and Medieval History, and lives above Haworth, in the last inhabited house before Top Withens = Wuthering Heights. In 1992 he founded the successful Campaign to Save Radio 4 Long Wave while in plaster following a rock-climbing accident on Skye. His poem ‘The metric system’ won…

Being a conservation investor 4 – a response from the NT

Thank you to all who have offered me advice on how I should travel to various NT properties to attempt to get my questions answered but I simply emailed them at [email protected] thus: I wrote this blog https://markavery.info/2024/03/16/being-a-conservation-investor-2-the-national-trust/ and received this response https://markavery.info/2024/04/21/being-a-conservation-investor-3-the-national-trust-brushes-me-off/ from Harry Bowell – it won’t do. Please organise a proper response. My next move will…