Last year, we bought a live Christmas tree in a pot and it has lived in our garden for the last 50 weeks or so and now it is in our conservatory ready for some lights to be draped over it. This is the first year for over 30 years when we haven’t had ‘kids’…
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Boundaries
I’m in Tier 2 – how about you? The small rural town where I live, Raunds, is actually, I’m told, named because it is close to the boundaries of Northants, Cambs and Beds. It was first recorded as Randan in an Anglo-Saxon chronicle in the late 900s AD. Randan is the plural of the Old…
Should I say yes?
I get a lot of these – at least one such email a day. If you think I should be saying yes to these unsolicited junkemails then let me know and I could fill this site up with them… Hi Mark, I hope you’re doing well. I’ve been reading some of your content for some…
Back at Wicken Fen
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This time yesterday I was back at Wicken Fen with a small group of friends and colleagues – talking legal challenges and looking for Hen Harriers. We saw a couple of distant ringtails and as the light was really failing, an adult male brightened the gloom. It was spotted by a lawyer! It was now…
Gone for a Burton
The failure of the Arcadia group has been no innocent rural idyll. Sir Philip Green is a great poster boy for both capitalism and the Honours System having received his knighthood in 2006 for services to the retail industry. It’s a pity that these things don’t have to be renewed every few years (and it’s…
Ivy
If there’s one thing that our garden has in abundance it is Ivy. This is a view, from the bathroom, of the mature Ivy covering the shed outside. Looking back from the other side of that archway looks like this (on a sunny day last week); And there is plenty more at the end of…
For peat’s sake
I was pleased to read in the Guardian that my old stomping grounds of the Flow Country (see Fighting for Birds, Chapter 2) might be edging towards World Heritage Site status. It’s a bit like when an old friend gets a gong in an honours list – it’s not necessarily that one thinks the gong…
Yesterday on the Nene Washes
Yesterday afternoon I visited the Nene Washes at Eldernell on a very nice afternoon. There were a few other birders there but social distancing was easy and there was some discussion about whether this was the last chance to visit for a month and what counted as local. But I guess that was my pre-lockdown…
Another good month for readership of this blog
Over 103,000 pageviews in October makes it the eighth month this year (and the seventh in a row) to top the wholly artificial 100,000 pageviews level. And with 24,000+ unique users (readers) this month that is very respectable too. As hinted at a few weeks ago, despite some saying it will never happen, it is…