I have reviewed 31 books on this blog this year – three more than last year. Some of these are sent to me by publishers or authors, some I simply go out and buy. Which books you like is as personal a choice as what music you like. But for what it’s worth, here are…
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Tim Melling – Scarlet Macaws
Tim writes: I photographed these wild Scarlet Macaws at Corcovado National Park at the extreme south of Costa Rica on the Pacific coast. They are enormous birds, usually fly round in pairs and show a dazzling display of red, blue and yellow. They are also extremely noisy so usually give you some warning that they…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Things that caught my eye
Just a few things that caught my eye beaver chips for beavers and for Christmas badger e-petition seems a bit stuck around 65,000 signatures hardback copies of A Message from Martha – all gone! online auction for elephants by World Land Trust more young people (apparently that is 16-34 – so not very young!) are…
Book review – The Nature of Sex by Carin Bondar
This book is a review about how animals beget other animals. It must be quite difficult to write about sex in a way that is neither coy nor coarse and which will keep the attention of the reader with whatever moral and personal baggage they might bring to the subject. The author tells us of…