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…
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A Happy Christmas to all my readers
Happy Christmas! This blog will return on Boxing Day morning with a preview of the King George (that’s a horse race) at Kempton. Please sign this epetition.
Three images today – 3 Shooting with a camera
Sent in by ‘a reader’ – discuss.
Three images today – 2 eeek!
Anybody claim to own this tattoo? There are many people called Mark Avery in the world – there is this photographer, and this photographer – both of whom seem very talented to me. And there is this musician who was a guitarist in a punk band. There is this Mark S. Avery who is big…
Three images today – 1 Greenpeace video
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Summoned by gulls
Gulls used to be quite dull and quite simple. When I grew up, there were basically a couple of black-backs, Herring, Common and Black-headed (and Kittiwake on distant coasts and Little Gull if you were very lucky). All of these gulls were pretty common so there wasn’t much to be gained by being a gull-expert…
How intriguing
A man by the name of Avery (what an excellent name that is) got in touch with me recently because a copy of Fighting for Birds had arrived unexpectedly through the post. If there is someone buying and sending out copies of Fighting for Birds to everyone called Avery this Christmas then that seems like…
20 years back
20 years ago, a bunch of wildlife conservation organisations published a report on the state of wildlife in the UK and what should be done to protect it. That report was Biodiversity Challenge and it made quite an impact – at least for a while. Back in 1993 the UK government (and this was before…
Give as You Live
I have been using Give as You Live for over a year. After the usual amount of clicking and filling in fields you can open an account which allows you automatically to donate some of what you spend to a charity of your choice – and there is a big choice! Now I know that…
20:20 on science and policy
Recently a paper was published, by scientists, about the 20 things that politicians should understand about science. It’s a bit of an irritating list and I was just about to sit down and write about the 20 things that scientists should know about politics and policy-making when, partly to my relief and partly to my…