Sue Croxford is the winner of the Invertebrates Category in this blog’s writing competition. A copy of Remarkable Birds is in the post to her. Sue writes: I am lucky enough to live in the beautiful Chiltern hills with my husband, two children and a bonkers labrador. We spend a lot of time outside exploring the weird…
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Sunday book review – Winter by Melissa Harrison (ed)
This book is on the same model as the preceding three volumes: an anthology of seasonal nature writing with a mixture of work from well-known and older writers and some very modern pieces too. I liked Spring, Summer and Autumn and I like Winter too. It felt as though there were more poetry in this…
Tim Melling – the rare and beautiful Netted Carpet Moth
Tim writes: As a teenager I remember reading E B Ford’s New Naturalists book on Moths, where this species was on a plate labelled “Moths with Restricted Distributions” that showed fifteen of Britain’s rarest moths. The first moth in this plate was the beautiful Netted Carpet from Windermere. Since that day it is a species…
Blocked?
This only applies if you are on Twitter. I did a bit of a clear out on Twitter a little while ago. I stopped following hundreds of accounts and blocked some others too. I have had three people come to me and ask to unblocked – and I have unblocked them all. I’ll do the…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill