Oh to be on Scilly now September’s here! I’ve only been to the Isles of Scilly once, as a child, on a day trip on the Scillonian from Penzance, and around Easter time. It must be time to go back! It’s a pity they are so far away – but if they weren’t out west,…
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Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
This is just slightly spooky, because when Ralph sent this to me what I was writing in ‘Message from Martha‘ would have fitted this perfectly – and vice versa.
Wuthering Moors 39
If you look at the Ordnance Survey map at grid reference SD 944344 – use this link. Can you see that there is an unnamed stream (a watercourse) between one called Foul Sike (to the north) and another called Waterfall Syke (to the south)? Here it is these days – looks a bit like a…
Silly biofools!
MEPs voted for a 6% cap on food-based biofuels yesterday. It could be worse (it always could) but it should be an awful lot better. Action Aid report. RSPB report. EEB report. BBC report. Business green report. Thomson Reuters report. EU Observer report. I am amazed that in this world when things are speeding up…
Binoculars
I would be very surprised if readers of this blog have been worrying about the fate of my binoculars since I dropped them on the concrete outside a motel at Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico, on 23 June. A few days later (28 June to be precise) I took them into Hawkins in Northampton to see…