Yorkshire kids need help

Please help to restore the language of nature to children across North and East Yorkshire.  Support this crowdfunder to get a copy of Lost Words into every primary school in North and East Yorkshire. This includes the schools closest to Spurn Point and those in the poorest parts of Hull; and the North York Moors…

Flowers we can pick (6) – Meadowsweet

Meadowsweet is one of the plants that Plantlife says we can pick! It’s in the Plantlife Pickable 12. This must be a common plant because it is another one that I can actually identify! And this is the time to see it – there was plenty in the boggier bits of Perth and Kinross on…

Guest blog – Feel Good Factor by Ian Parsons

Feel Good Factor It was during the demise of the much fabled ‘Beast from the East’ that I first noticed him. A whirry blur of brown feathers flying below me as I looked out of the back bedroom window at the sad grey dripping masses of what had been, just a few days earlier, pristine…

For our French readers…

    Congratulations on your result against Belgium last night – we hope to see you on Sunday. Coming to a bookshop near you in time for your Christmas purchases – to be published 4 October 2018.