My experience of London is that the traffic is in a jam even when ER aren’t on the streets. But this Roller was stopped for a chat near Marsham St earlier today. And a nice T-shirt too.
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Do you remember campaigns about using seat belts, not drinking and driving, sticking to speed limits and how to cross the road safely? I do. Do you remember a media campaign telling us that new coins were arriving and that there would soon be 100 pennies to the pound rather than 240 of them (yes…
Tim Melling – White-chinned Petrel
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Tim writes: white-chinned Petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis) is a large petrel with a wingspan on nearly 1.5m. Within the petrel family, only the two Giant Petrels are larger. I have always thought that it was inappropriately named as its white chin is such a trivial feature. Its plumage is the colour of dark chocolate apart from…
Struck down
Mark Avery is a man with a stinking cold – possibly terminal. Normal service will resume soon, probably tomorrow, because he is very brave
Tim Melling – Weddell Seal
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Tim writes: the Weddell Seal was named after a seal hunter called James Weddell (1787-1834), who also had the Weddell Sea named after him. These Seals have the distinction of occurring further south on the planet than any other mammal. That’s because they usually live on permanent ice that is attached to land, using holes…
RSPB on driven grouse shooting
There was an interesting bit on the Today programme yesterday (click here, between 0845 and 0850) when Beccy Speight of the RSPB talked about the State of Nature report (and see here). Beccy did well but then, rather out of the blue, she was asked about grouse shooting and the fact that some people, including…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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To be fair…
Ryanair has a bit of an image problem even though its planes are packed! Just because portions of the population think that Ryanair would charge you for breathing if they could get away with it doesn’t mean that they don’t fly to places that people want to go (or just down the road from them…
Getting the message across?
Here are the quotes sent out by the organisations who are part of this joint effort. I’ve ordered them by how much I like them – most-liked at the top. Basically, the message that needs to be got across is : 1, what’s the problem? 2, why should I care? and 3, what needs to…
State of Nature report 2019
The launch on Channel 4 News was a good idea, but the ‘sitting in a barn’ bit was pretty poor really, just all over the place. The whole thing was rescued by the young people! Well done Jess Nicholls, Mya-Rose Craig, Sophie Pavelle, Dan Rouse, Bella Lack and (token male) James Miller! Their messages were…