It’s World Sleep Day. Swifts sleep on the wing, half their brain at a time, it is thought. I’m going to dream of doing that… Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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My friends the birds
Tuesday provided my first Brimstones of the year but was otherwise the opposite of profitable. Wednesday was a day of a singing Blackcap, a Raven and a decent profit. On the way to the races the conversation turned somewhat surreal. ‘If you could befriend a bird which would then help you through life, which would you…
Guest blog – The case against the EU by Richard Wayre
After twenty-some years pursuing a career in marketing and management consultancy I jumped ship and returned to academia, initially to study Countryside Management and then moving on to read for a degree in Ecology. The marriage of my old world and new is not a comfortable one. From the dual perspectives of environment and economy,…
Martha – the play!
I didn’t expect to get an email like this one – how wonderful! Dear Mark, First off I hope you don’t mind a stranger contacting you out of the blue. I’d like to tell you how much I enjoyed my now well-worn copy of A Message From Martha. It was not only an astonishingly well…
Barry, Eilidh and Natalie
At yesterday evening’s Environmental Question Time, as well as Kate Parminter, William Cash and Rupert de Mauley, there was also Barry Gardiner, Eilidh Whiteford and Natalie Bennett. Natalie Bennett, performed well: supports a nature and Well-being Bill would reform the CAP would repeal bad bits of NPPF is against fracking realises we need to tackle…