The 122nd RSPB AGM was held in London on Saturday morning. I think I have attended about 25 of them. An AGM sounds dull, and it obviously isn’t a bundle of laughs, but it is more interesting than most AGMs. Now I don’t have to answer any of them, I like the difficult questions from…
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Sunday Book Review – Adar Nythu Gogledd Cymru
…also known as The Breeding Birds of North Wales, edited by Anne Brenchley, Geoff Gibbs, Rhion Pritchard and Ian Spence – but I guess you realised that. There are going to be lots of atlases around this year and next, I guess, as spin-offs from the Britain and Ireland Bird Atlas (to which I intend…
Saturday cartoons by Ralph Underhill
Toffs
A couple of days ago I suggested that the recent Defra minister Richard Benyon might be called a ‘toff’. This was greeted by a stream of comments angry on the toffish ex-Minister’s behalf. Let’s just get the meaning of this four-letter word out of the way first. Toff – a member of the upper classes,…
Pitcairn revisited
A little while ago I received an invitation to an event which will be held towards the end of the month concerning the future of the seas around the Pitcairn Islands. I was quite interested in attending until I saw that it was in Marseille. However, this blog has shown an interest in marine protected…