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Jane is a naturalist, photographer and nature writer living in Dorset. Her work has appeared in books, anthologies and blogs for charities such as The Wildlife Trusts and the International Bee Research Association. When she’s not exploring Dorset’s lanes and countryside she can be found lying on her stomach watching insects in her garden. Jane’s…

‘ticking up’ – going up a lot quicker than it ought to be but the speaker is trying to make it sound small and temporary – usually of something that we want to decline, described by a government minister ‘ramping up’ – going up a lot slower than it ought to be but the speaker…

We’re still on the second day, in fact we are nowhere near 36 hours into this petition yet, and we are heading towards 20,000 signatures. Thanks to all who have signed. Every Westminster parliamentary constituency has recorded a signature; the last three were South Antrim, Wolverhampton South East and, as usual, Barking. The constituencies with…

There is an old expression about bird records from long ago, ‘What’s hit’s history, what’s missed, mystery‘ but it seems that even when you have a pile of bird bodies some can’t identify their quarry. It was in 1977 that Lady Diana Spencer, then 16, was first introduced to a 29-year-old Prince Charles. Charles was…

After a break of a couple of months, the Moorland Association Twitter account is back although it isn’t saying very much these days. I do like their profile picture with the abbreviation of their motto; No Harriers Survive