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I always think that I like May more than I like April – but I have liked this April a lot! I can’t wait until the next one. For a birdwatcher April is a month of arrivals (though, at the same time, there are departures too).  I have a few mental ‘targets’ (not quite the…

It’s the last day of April and I haven’t seen a Swift yet. So I am sitting in the garden looking at the sky.  I’ll tell you tomorrow whether it worked or not.

Dear Andy   I’m a bit late with this letter but I’d like to thank you for the way you have dealt with previous ones. In the run up to the EU elections on 22 May I’m sure we are all thinking about the UK’s place in Europe.  You have probably noticed the coverage of…

I’m lucky – although, actually, luck didn’t have that much to do with it; I live in the countryside.  This means that I can drive for 20 minutes, as I did on Saturday evening, and stand in an ancient woodland at dusk and listen to Nightingales singing. I do this every year – and it…

This letter was sent to the EU Environment Commissioner on 24 April about the role of the European Commission in sorting out the Spring massacre of migrants in Malta. Here is a quote from it: “In view of the abundant evidence presented to the European Commission about the systemic failures in the application of the…