Nick MacKinnon is a freelance teacher of Maths, English and Medieval History, and lives above Haworth, in the last inhabited house before Top Withens = Wuthering Heights. In 1992 he founded the successful Campaign to Save Radio 4 Long Wave while in plaster following a rock-climbing accident on Skye. His poem ‘The metric system’ won…
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Being a conservation investor 4 – a response from the NT
Thank you to all who have offered me advice on how I should travel to various NT properties to attempt to get my questions answered but I simply emailed them at [email protected] thus: I wrote this blog https://markavery.info/2024/03/16/being-a-conservation-investor-2-the-national-trust/ and received this response https://markavery.info/2024/04/21/being-a-conservation-investor-3-the-national-trust-brushes-me-off/ from Harry Bowell – it won’t do. Please organise a proper response. My next move will…
Sunday book review – Hunt for the Shadow Wolf by Derek Gow
I have reviewed two of Derek Gow’s earlier books (Bringing Back the Beaver, September 2020; Birds, Beasts and Bedlam, July 2022) and both were very good books, but this is by some way a better book than either of those, which, to me, makes it an excellent book. You don’t have to be mad keen…
Sunday book review – Ponds, Pools and Puddles by Jeremy Biggs and Penny Williams
Every new New Naturalist is worth a look and this one is a hefty 614 pages of information, illustrations, photographs and graphs about smallish waterbodies, written by two acknowledged experts. It has to be said that the New Naturalists have regained their ability to produce well-illustrated books with clear colour photographs and fairly clear graphs…
Sunday book review – The Vanishing Mew Gull by Ray Reedman
I have to admire the author for bringing together a taxonomic list of 1100 birds found in the Western Palearctic (about 1 in 10 of the world’s birds) and explaining the origins of their English vernacular names and scientific names. If that is the book you want, then this is the book for you. I…