I’m back! At least I think I am! My broadband has been off for days (but luckily I could parasitise friends’ wifi at times) but is now on again (or did I speak too soon?). Yesterday evening I tried to persuade the Nottingham RSPB Local Group to support bird conservationists in the rival city of…
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Standing up for Nature
…hasn’t got internet at the moment.
How would you…
…offset Owen Paterson? Not sure about offsetting him, but if he were to set off into the far distance he would not be missed.
Offsetting news
In a surprise move the government announced a series of offsetting policies. Michael Gove moved to close down Oxford, Cambridge and Durham Universities but offset these losses by opening a large number of nurseries for children. Education charities said ‘It could work, you know’. Sports Minister, Helen Grant, announced that no-one over the age of…
There’s an app for it…
Do you have a smart phone? Mine is smarter than I am! Do you have a wonderful array of apps (applications)? I can check the live football scores, check the runners or results of the racing, look at a map of where I am, convert $$ to ££, have a bet, look at Facebook, Twitter,…
An oldie and a baddie.
There were two copies of The Oldie in Avery Towers over Christmas and everyone who glanced at either of them noticed that ‘That man Ingrams is moaning about Red Kites again’. Richard Ingrams has form on this subject but this time he seems to be blaming the decline of the Kestrel on Red Kites. Actually…
Nature goes unhonoured
I didn’t notice any names closely associated with nature in the New Year’s Honours list – did you? Although the idea of ‘honours’ is ridiculous I am always pleased when some of the good guys get a gong. I really couldn’t see any this time around – did I miss them? Would you nominate anyone?
What will 2014 bring for you?
HAPPY NEW YEAR! It’s fun to have some idea of what you plan to do in the year ahead. Here are some of my ideas. They’ll change through the year, no doubt, as they did last year. January – encourage as many people as possible to invite their MP to their houses to do the…
Old squaw in east Northants
It’s not every day that you see a globally threatened bird species in Northants. And it’s not every day that you see a sea-duck in Northants. So you can appreciate that it isn’t even every other day that you see both rolled into one – a Long-tailed Duck in east Northants. However, there have been…
The King George – not just a warm-up for Cheltenham
The King George VI chase is racing’s Boxing Day highlight. Second only to the Cheltenham Gold Cup in steeplechasing’s league table of prestige, this is usually a mid-winter battle between the best chasers of Britain, Ireland and sometimes of France too. The King George is often won by the same horses in successive years. The…