The playing fields of Eton – infinitely level

Have you noticed that Britain’s future in the EU has been in the news recently? David Cameron’s speech on the subject says that if he is Prime Minister after the next General Election then he’s going to ask us all whether we want to stay in the EU.  I can tell him my answer now …

My BGBW results

I’ve just finished my hour-long Big Garden Birdwatch count – I didn’t need a long piece of paper to keep count.  The total was four house sparrows and that’s the lowest species total, bird total and house sparrow total ever for my garden.  Oh well – that’s the point of it – to count what…

BGBW Sunday

I know what Ralph means – I’d like to add red kite to my BGBW list this year but how interested in my garden would one have to be to be ‘countable’? Will my honesty be tested today? I’ll let you know how I got on with BGBW with another blog today some time after…

Easy to be friendly

I went to a Greenpeace event on Wednesday evening – about their ‘Be a fisherman’s friend‘ campaign. There were some very nice inshore fishermen there too – people with whom it was easy to be friendly. These were fishermen from NUTFA and their website is well worth a look. It’s easy to be friendly with…