Standing up for Nature
This is a good guide to The Fens which takes a sensible approach to its nature. It describes the history of this low-lying expanse through which the Great Ouse, Nene, Welland and Witham used to wiggle their way but now take more man-decided straighter routes on their ways to The Wash. Maybe 1% of the…
Bob Berzins is a campaigner and activist. His previous guests blogs here all focus on the management, or mismanagement, of upland areas such as the Peak District, Walshaw Moor and the North York Moors. See also his novels Snared and The Last Crow. Of all the environmental damage found on grouse shooting moors, road building…
John Page was born in the West Riding, a proud Yorkshireman and was taught to play cricket left-handed “ ’cos it flummoxes t’ bowler, and buggers up t’ field.” He went to university in London and Leeds, and enjoyed (most of the time) attempting to teach young people that there’s a big wide world beyond…
This is how I responded to the consultation on heather and grass burning in England. If you’d like to respond too then you have until 25 May, five days, to do so. It’s pretty quick and it is a way to support the campaign to ban driven grouse shooting, or at the very least to…
Cartoon by Edith Pritchett
Conor Mark Jameson worked in conservation all of his career and now lives and writes in west Norfolk. He is also the author of Silent Spring Revisited (reviewed here), Looking for the Goshawk (reviewed here), and Shrewdunnit (a collection of his feature articles, (reviewed here)). Conor’s biography Finding W. H. Hudson – The Writer…
Conor Mark Jameson worked in conservation all of his career and now lives and writes in west Norfolk. He is also the author of Silent Spring Revisited (reviewed here), Looking for the Goshawk (reviewed here), and Shrewdunnit (a collection of his feature articles, (reviewed here)). Conor’s biography Finding W. H. Hudson – The Writer…
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…