I’m looking forward to talking to the Nottingham RSPB Local Group at 730pm this evening. The Nottingham Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham NG1 4EZ.
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Ralph Underhill Tuesday evening cartoon
See Sunday’s blogs on this subject here, here and here.
Guest Blog – The Sanctuary LNR, Derby by Richard Winspear on behalf of Derbyshire Ornithological Society
SAVE LOCAL NATURE RESERVE FROM A CASE THAT SETS AN IMPORTANT PRECEDENT – We Need You To ACT NOW! You have until January 12th to help us save The Sanctuary Local Nature Reserve (LNR) – which is also the first and only bird reserve in Derby. A Planning Application went live over the Christmas period…
Oscar Dewhurst – bittern in the snow
I will be in a Bittern-rich county for a couple of days. Perhaps I’ll see a Bittern but, if not, I’ll keep looking at this image.
How would you…
…offset Owen Paterson? Not sure about offsetting him, but if he were to set off into the far distance he would not be missed.
Offsetting news
In a surprise move the government announced a series of offsetting policies. Michael Gove moved to close down Oxford, Cambridge and Durham Universities but offset these losses by opening a large number of nurseries for children. Education charities said ‘It could work, you know’. Sports Minister, Helen Grant, announced that no-one over the age of…
The Last Resort
Owen Paterson is paid for being the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. On Saturday morning I was listening to the BBC Radio 4 Today programme and one of the items was about Paterson’s remarks to The Times about biodiversity offsetting. It seemed that Paterson had used woodland as an example…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill.
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Selfie, selfie, selfie.
There’s an app for it…
Do you have a smart phone? Mine is smarter than I am! Do you have a wonderful array of apps (applications)? I can check the live football scores, check the runners or results of the racing, look at a map of where I am, convert $$ to ££, have a bet, look at Facebook, Twitter,…
On track so far…
We are only a couple of days into 2014 but it is going quite well so far. I have spent time with friends and relatives, made a profit on betting, had some walks, eaten well and drunk well too – if only I had won the Really Nasty Horse Racing Game in the first few…