Did you notice?

Did you notice that we have passed the previous best total for signatures on an e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting? Last time around it took six months, that must be 26 weeks, to reach 33,655 signatures – and I thought that was pretty amazing really – but this time around we passed that total…

April was a record-breaking month on this blog

Last month broke all records for unique users (over 38,000 – previous best over 26,000 (January 2016)) and page views (around 115,000 – previous best over 103,000 (August 2015)). Thank you to all the readers who made this the case – whether they were delighted or irritated by the blog’s contents – and all the…

This brought a tear to my eye

Hi Mark, I have just read your recent blog on the Peak District and the National Trust, and I am afraid it has made me cry. I think they are partly tears of sorrow and partly of hope against hope that what you write about could be true. I love the Peak District. It is…