Category: ME:

Here in rural East Northants some of us will be going to vote a week today.  I have my polling card already. I will be voting on this question ‘Do you want East Northamptonshire Council to use the Neighbourhood Development Plan for Raunds to help it decide planning applications in the neighbourhood area?’ – for…

My car is over 13 years old, and I’ve had it for around eight years. It still has a dent in it from where a Muntjac Deer ran in front of me. I’m afraid it’s a diesel, so it’s polluting in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and in terms of human health risks. That’s not…

You see that fleece above? It’s got plastic in it, and when it is washed, plastic ends up in rivers and then the sea.  I have two fleeces and I wear them a lot – they are warm, they are easy and they are good to wear with binoculars. They are also quite old and…

I have objected to the proposal to build 10 large broiler units on open farmland a few miles from where I live (see here and here). I see that another local person has very recently seen large numbers of Lapwing and Golden Plover on the proposed site.  This alone shows that more data are needed,…

I expect that many of the readers of this blog feel a bit of nagging guilt about the impact of their lifestyle on the planet, and not just the planet but on the people with whom we share it. What we eat, what we wear, where we travel etc etc – all those things have…

This is just a short addendum to my blogs on a local planning matter which would involve building 10 intensive broiler houses on farmland about six miles from where I live (see my blogs here, here and here) and Tim Reed’s guest blog which was on the more general issues surrounding the quality of data…

Friday was a good day. After a couple of days in Edinburgh seeing people including my son, I got the train down to London in sunshine. There were skeins of Pinkfeet flying over as we passed Dunbar, and the autumn colours in this part of Scotland are ahead of the trees back home. In London,…

The ivy in the garden is looking good and buzzing with Ivy Bees. And there have been up to seven splendid Red Admirals on it in the past few days.