It’s raining. It’s still raining. And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. G K Chesterton A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain…
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Worth a look, and then another look
You can get a sneak preview of one chapter of my new book, and so much more, by walking into your local WH Smith or similar and buying this annual. My article is about bird reintroductions and covers some of the material of Chapter 8 in Fighting for Birds – 25 years in nature conservation….
A bucolic scene
I just had to take a ‘snap’ (although iPhones make a faint buzz rather than a snap) of these flowers, as I have seen so few this year. Where was I, do you think? Answer at ‘end of day’. Answer: thank you for some good guesses, and some well argued thoughts and near…
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This email exchange shows that the cost of the abandoned legal proceedings by Natural England against the Walshaw Moor Estate were over £1m of taxpayers’ money. This is your money and you have been given no satisfactory explanation for why the case was dropped when a few months earlier NE had been pursuing the Walshaw…
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This email between Natural England’s Andrew Wood and others (including some recipients whose names have been withheld) contains several matters of interest; Its title – this is the first time the the Secretary of State’s, Caroline Spelman’s, name has appeared to my knowledge in this case. It appears that back in December 2011 this case…