Category: EVENTS: BirdFair, HHDay, Game Fair etc
Saturday 11 August – Hebden Bridge
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Save the date – 11 August 2019
Let’s have a 5-year reunion at the Derwent Dam! Chris Packham is up for it, Ruth Tingay is up for it, I’m up for it – are you up for it? Next year – Sunday 11 August 2019 – save the date.
More on Iceland, whales and the Bird Fair
Please read to the bottom of this post. The recent comment from Linda about whaling, Iceland and holiday tours has really put some cats among some pigeons and generated some good comments from regular commenters here. I’ve had an invitation from one tour company to have a chat at the Bird Fair, a call from…
In case you missed it: comments on Bird Fair, Iceland, whales, wildlife tours
Sometimes there are comments on this blog which are so good that they deserve elevating to a post in their own right so that they get a wider audience. In response to my recent short post on the Bird Fair (but also relevant to this post on Iceland, and to this one) there was the…
Bird Fair 2018 – 4 weeks today
Bird Fair – you either love it or hate it – I love it (though it mildly irritates me too). But it starts 4 weeks today. It’s a pity that Michael Gove can’t attend – but I do know that the invitation was made months ago. An opportunity missed, by him, perhaps. I’d still…
See you for a chat on Sunday (and Saturday looks good too!)
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Yorkshire Wildlife Trust have arranged a programme of events at Potteric Carr Saturday and Sunday 21st-22nd July in celebration of the reserve’s 50th birthday. Visitors can enjoy free entry to the site and trails, where there will be activities for all ages and reserve volunteers and wardens throughout, to help visitors spot wildlife and…
Thunderous Mr Wilde
The thunderous Findlay Wilde has a thunderclap going. It will go out on 12 August, the Inglorious 12th, a while before he gets his GCSE results! It seems as though Findlay has been around for ages, he’s an established figure – an established figure and he hasn’t got to the sixth form yet. Well…
Fair Game?
The Game Fair is limping along still. It seems to have settled at Ragley Hall, Warwickshire. This year’s dates are 27-29 July, that’s just over three weeks away. Here are a few of the events where the shooting community tells itself how wonderful it is and how everyone is on its side provided they all…
The last Gillmor exhibition?
Robert Gillmor is launching his latest book at what he says will be his last major exhibition, at the Pinkfoot Gallery, Cley on 28 April (exhibition closes 11 May). Put those dates in your diary! Robert says ‘This will be the last exhibition of its kind I’ll ever do – I don’t have anything…