Last week the You Forgot the Birds campaign disclosed that their ‘campaign’ was funded by the British grouse industry. Today, in the Mail on Sunday (prop P Dacre, grouse moor owner) YFtB is described as a grassroots campaign of farmers and conservationists. 59-year old Ian Botham has been brought back into the bowling attack. He attempts…
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Sunday book review – The Moth Snowstorm by Michael McCarthy
Nice cover! This is a book about loss – and about joy, and about wonder, and about hope. There’s a lot about the loss of nature over the last few decades and the author mixes this with memories of personal loss. A love of nature can be a support and strength during one’s life. And…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Henry occupies yet another butt
Henry encourages you to get yourself photographed in a grouse butt. #HaveYouSeenHenry?
Henry in Bowland 3
Henry’s ears should have been burning last night because he kept coming up in conversation at the launch of Michael McCarthy’s book, The Moth Snowstorm, in the Linnaean Society in Piccadilly. This was a gathering of the friends of one of the country’s finest writers about environmental matters and the natural world – it was…