Today’s good thing from Michael Gove, they are coming thick and fast at the moment, is highly important. It aims to plug the governance gap on the environment once we leave the EU (if it happens). As has been pointed out in this blog many times, although all parties before the general election promised to…
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Sunday book review – Land of Plenty by Charlie Pye-Smith
This is an interesting and well-written book about farming and food. It is definitely in the farmer-sympathetic camp, which is fine but also gets close to being in the ‘agriculture is doing well’ camp which I find a little irritating. But I learned a lot from it and it is a good read. The format…
Tim Melling – Anna’s Hummingbird
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Tim writes: The Anna’s Hummingbird is about 10cm from bill tip to tail and weighs less than five grams. It was named after Princess Anna d’Essling the 19th century Duchess of Rivoli, wife of Prince Victor Massena and son of one of Napoleon’s Marshalls. It was named by René Lesson, a French naturalist who also…
An Unreliable History of Birdwatching (33) by Paul Thomas
Saturday cartoons by Ralph Underhill
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