And now we have a Labour London Mayor but Zac’s constituents have put him (at #1) way ahead of Sadiq (#41) in this list. Across the UK, the average number of signatures on our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is 54 – only nine (of 73) London constituencies are above average. We know that…
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Sunday book review – Rivers Run by Kevin Parr
Kevin Parr wrote the book that I selected as my favourite of 2014, The Twitch – that one was a black comedy, though very funny, I thought, about a murderous twitcher. This book is very different, and is about Parr’s greater love – fishing. And it’s not a laddish tale of bonking, drinking and murder…
Happy Birthday Sir David!
Happy Birthday Sir David! 90 years young and an inspiration to so many of us. Last week Sir David launched London Wildlife Trust’s Woodberry Wetlands nature reserve, where he said: ‘Contact with the natural world isn’t a luxury… it is actually a necessity for all of us. All we know about the natural world…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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I object!
I’m not the only one to have objected to this retrospective planning application for a ‘temporary’ track to a line of grouse butts. You could object too, but comments have to be submitted by Monday so it is a job for this weekend. At the time of writing this post, all 30 comments are objections…
35,000 – a good way to go into the weekend.
And there goes another milestone – 35,000 signatures. Thank you all. The ‘200 Club’ numbers just one constituency: Calder Valley 228 signatures – Craig Whittaker MP, CON But the ‘100 Club’ has swelled to : Ross, Skye, Lochaber 166 signatures – Ian Blackford MP, SNP Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey 145 signatures – Drew Hendry…
Congratulations to Andy Wightman
Any friend of Henry is a friend of mine! And now Henry has a friend in Holyrood as a successful Green Party candidate on the Lothian regional list. Andy Wightman co-authored a report on grouse shooting with Ruth Tingay last year. A nation celebrates – but I don’t see Scottish Land and Estates Doug McAdam…
Dear Mr Pursglove
Dear Mr Pursglove May I thank you for your response to my previous letter on Fineshade Wood. I very much appreciated it and I am glad that I can agree with my local MP on a very local issue. Thank you again. Now that the weather has turned to a more reasonable and seasonal temperature…
And thank you Wales
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And here are the results of the Welsh jury… (in red, constituencies which registered more signatures in six months last time, than in six weeks this time around; in blue, constituencies which have already surpassed their previous total): Ceredigion 95, 82 Montgomeryshire 79, 72 Brecon and Radnorshire 62, 72 Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire 54, 59 …
Another BBS first visit
I surveyed my second BBS square on Tuesday morning. It was sunny and there were lots of birds. This site starts and ends in a village which is packed full of birds; heads out along the River Nene where there are quite a lot of birds; and then before returning to the village traverses some…