I was posting some (free!) copies of Inglorious to various points of the compass where Hen Harrier Day events are happening and the lady in the post office and I had the following exchange: Her: What is in the parcels? Me: Books Her: Are they valuable? Me: Priceless! I wrote them and have signed…
Category: e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting
Henry finds some more friends in the Peak District
As we move closer and closer to Hen Harrier Day on Sunday, Henry met up with friends from the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust – strong supporters of Hen Harrier Day. On the left is Tim Birch who wrote a Guest Blog for this site last year. This photo was taken a while ago and yesterday Tim…
Henry amongst friends and heading to Hen Harrier Day
Henry and I visited the RSPB at The Lodge – and gathered quite a crowd! As well as Bob the Squirrel there is the RSPB Conservation Director, Martin Harper, in the photograph and quite a few friends of mine and of Henry’s. The RSPB feature so many times in Inglorious that I’m not going to…
BBC Wildlife magazine’s Book of the Month
Thank you to BBC Wildlife magazine for making Inglorious your Book of the Month and thank you to Charlie Elder for a very kind review. I liked ‘expansive in scope yet forensic in detail‘ and also, of course ‘clearly reasoned and well-written‘. I do believe that the idea of a ban on driven grouse shooting…
More on the Game Fair
Yesterday I didn’t go to the Game Fair but the Today programme did. And Farming Today were there too. Farming Today repeated C(W)TG’s Andrew Gilruth’s inability to answer a question here after about 15 minutes. Did you notice how Andrew claimed that grouse moors had been designated because they were teeming with wildlife? He’s such…