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I haven’t written much about my local patch of Stanwick Lakes for a quite a while.  You might think I’ve stopped going out birdwatching but, to the extent that anything does, my regular walks around my regular patch are some of the things that keep me sane and reasonably relaxed. I was up at 5am…

Sunday was a good day. Its centrepiece was having a delicious lunch to celebrate a close friend’s passing of a landmark.  There was good food, good company and good conversation among a group of folk who to all apppearances were good people. To say that we were a group of middle class, middle-aged people from…

Since I started this blog in April 2011, 5002 posts have appeared here, attracting over 53,000 comments. That’s quite a lot. Thanks very much to all readers, commenters, photographers, artists and cartoonists. Later this year there will be a two-month break as I will be coming and going over that period, but I’ll let you…

1. Early Day Motion 915 praising brood-meddling has not gathered any further support! In fact it is worse than that for its proposers, a Labour MP added his name and then removed it! So we see an EDM on the actions of NE and Defra whose only supporters are four DUP MPs and one SNP…

David Davis made a speech the other day which was supposed to reassure somebody or other that we aren’t heading to a Mad Max future without laws and rules. Here’s the speech – very light, and very unreassuring, on environmental protection. Mr Davis passed the buck on the environment to Michael Gove with his ‘……