Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 25 by Kate Haslegrave

Kate is a photographer and has lived in Haworth for twenty years. Walking on the moors she has come to learn that no two days are ever the same. Her blog about Haworth & Stanbury moors is at www.katietuppence.com. This is her third blog in this series about Walshaw Turbines – see here for the…

Sunday book review – Urban Plants by Trevor Dines

I went to the launch of this book in London about 10 days ago and spent an hour with a gang of lovely botanists. That evening I read lots of the book, and more on the train home the next morning. Outside my house I noticed the Fat Hen and Hedge Mustard growing in the…

Sunday book review – Beepedia by Laurence Packer

This book takes us from Agapostemon to Zacosmia although that may not be the most helpful introduction from me as it suggests that this book is perhaps dull and worthy whereas it is fun and interesting. I enjoyed reading about the links of Danuncia Urban (bee taxonomist) and Charles Michener (another bee taxonomist) with bees…

Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 21 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…