M&S

Dear M&S We do this every year…  (2016, 2015, 2014) Please can you tell me whether you have any plans to sell grouse meat in your stores this year? I do hope not. Thank you.

I feel a bit bad about this…

The other day I was driving around the roads of east Northants and I saw two squashed Hedgehogs. Yuk!! But I felt pleased that I’d seen them because it showed that there were still hedgehogs here… But I felt bad about feeling good… But I was glad… But I was sorry too…

Letter to my MP

Dear Mr Pursglove As this is the first time I have written to you since the general election last week, I must congratulate you on a personal level for holding your seat of Corby and east Northants (despite my and many others’ best attempts to get the vote out for Labour and Beth Miller).  Given…

Tree Bumblebees

  We seem to have Tree Bumblebees in our garden – in a nestbox that has held Blue Tits in the past. I came back from Spain to find the nestbox was full of bumblebees. They seem quite friendly critters – they don’t interfere with drinking Rioja in the evenings anything like as much as…

Concerns about the Lobbying Act – the letter

  The Lobbying Act is really important and quite complicated so I’ll do my best to explain some things here. It’s worth saying upfront that I have spoken to various friends in NGOs about this issue and it is very clear that the Act is making many charities extremely nervous about speaking out about any…