The children at this local school are young enough to be my grandchildren. My two grandfathers were either down a Welsh coalmine or looking after horses on the Front in the First World War. I don’t remember my grandfathers because they both died when I was very young but their wives were important characters in…
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This book was conceived on this blog when Paul Thomas approached me with the idea of producing regular cartoons. I was glad to give him the opportunity to publish his work here and to promote his artwork. And now he has produced a book of cartoons – some of which will be familiar to you…
Tim Melling – Common Sandpiper
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Tim writes: The “kitty-needie, kitty-needie” song of Common Sandpiper is a familiar summer sound on northern rivers and reservoirs. Most breeding waders are resident in Britain, with their numbers bolstered by a winter influx from the north and east. But Common Sandpiper is a summer visitor that migrates to sub-Saharan Africa for the winter. It…
Peak leaf-peeping time
I popped in to London a few days ago. Well, if you can call a journey which involved four trains and two tubes ‘popping in’ then I popped in. And two of the trains were cancelled and the other two were late so it was quite a slow ‘pop’. The 07:38 from Wellingborough was cancelled…
by Mr Carbo
Inspired by the Revive launch on Tuesday evening.