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The first eight weeks
Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting keeps making significant progress. Highlights: Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey approaches 100 signatures – next week? The number of constituencies with 50+ signatures has jumped from 18 to 26 in the last week. Foyle and Barking remain the only two UK constituencies without a single signature Here…
Blue Planet 2 – programme 5
The most recent ‘Green Seas’ programme was good. You can’t go wrong with magnificent feeding Humpback Whales, cute Sea Otters, clever Octopuses, intriguing sea pens, gangs of moulting crabs and the weirdest and cutest of Weedy Seadragons. What did you think?
‘I cannot let great recipes die just to be politically correct’ – Tom Kitchin
‘Every year when August 12 comes round I get so many trolls on my Twitter feed, telling me about lead poisoning, about hen harriers, but I cannot let great recipes die just to be politically correct.’ says the Michelin-starred chef Tom Kitchin, whose Edinburgh restaurant specialises in all sorts of game (as quoted in The…
Not so great British Game Week
Great British Game Week ended yesterday. I’m sure it was a great success but on Twitter the top posts were all to do with raptor persecution – there’s an example below. Well done! To @raptorpersscot, @_robsheldon , @ban_dgs and others for using this social media opportunity to ram home the message that driven grouse…