Rules

Dear Rules Restaurant I wrote to you, as a customer, a while ago asking about the provenance of your game meat and what you think about the lead levels in it. Rather surprisingly you referred me to the GWCT for answers. I have contacted them and, perhaps not surprisingly, they say that they do not…

Coiled spring

Bank Holiday Monday proved to be a taster of spring – it feels as though spring is coiled and waiting to be released. I started with a walk at the local former airdrome on the Northants/Beds border. Eight of the nine wind turbines were spinning round even though there was little wind at ground level….

Henry dodging bullets?

Henry was on Salisbury Plain last week – without me! I missed him but it looks like he was having a good time risking life and limb on the firing ranges. Still, he’s used to dodging bullets. Henry and I are out and about today. Keep an eye open and you might see us. I…

Squirrels and martens

When I walk through St James’s Park, as I sometimes do, I am always (and it is always) struck by the number of people smiling at Grey Squirrels, photographing Grey Squirrels and feeding Grey Squirrels.  These people, many of whom are ‘foreign’, from their accents at least, would be shocked to hear this lovely, friendly,…

Henry #HaveYouSeenHenry

Henry with Michael Groves (volunteer for the owl & raptor nest box project on Salisbury Plain) and Nick Adams (Wiltshire Raptor Group). #HaveYouSeenHenry?