Sunday book review – Autumn by Melissa Harrison (ed)

I’ve reviewed Spring and Summer here, and liked them, so it won’t be a surprise that I enjoyed Autumn too. The book follows the same model as the earlier two seasons – an anthology of writings from famous writers mixed in with offerings from current writers.  It’s still a good model and worked as well…

Tim Melling – Kittlitz’s Murrelet

Tim writes: Kittlitz’s Murrelet is one of the least-known auk species on the planet being only found off Alaska and Eastern Siberia and is listed as critically endangered by the IUCN.  This means there is an extremely high risk this species will become extinct in the wild.  Numbers are declining at a startling rate throughout…

Defra did something good

It was an easy win – a future partial ban on microbeads – but nonetheless it is very welcome. And understandably Defra has made quite a lot of it – wouldn’t anyone? Have you noticed that the @DefraGovUK Twitter stream has had a definite upgrade – at least in terms of presentation. Defra’s Twitter stream…