Voting day in the Falklands – but not for penguins or albatrosses.

The human population of the Falklands Islands is voting today (and tomorrow) on their future – whether to remain British or not.  It’s a foregone conclusion that the c1800 adult population of these islands in the south Atlantic will vote to remain British. The Falkland Islands government website has a few pretty photographs of penguins…

The Pope is a Catholic

The Catholic Church has over a billion members across the globe – that’s similar to the population of India and well over twice that of the EU. The next Pope will have considerable influence on the lives of those billion people and therefore the environmental infallibility of the Pope would be a matter of interest…

Signs of spring?

Which of these signs of spring have you seen or heard? Singing birds: song thrush, chaffinch,greenfinch,  great tit, robin, dunnock, blackbird – what else? Flowering plants: snowdrop, aconite, primrose – what else? Flying insects – brimstone, bumblebee – what else? At my local patch of Stanwick Lakes there are still plenty of signs of winter;…