Almost there…ha ha!

The Cabinet meets today on an away-day to iron out the last few wrinkles in the UK’s Brexit programme. All that needs to be resolved is that they decide what sort of Brexit we want and what might be remotely achievable. What could go wrong? By the end of today we will either be seeing…

Emperors

Yesterday the Purple Emperors were showing well at Fermyn Woods. This one was on the path about 100m from where I parked my car. Simples! And FC seem to have done some quite sensible ride widening too.    

BBS done for this year.

I completed the second survey for my second BBS square the other day. Very few birds on this visit – amazingly few actually. Even few Carrion Crows and few Wood Pigeons. And yet I added a new species to the site (this was my 14th year of surveys here) – a very topical Raven.  Maybe…

This looks interesting.

  Mark Cocker, George Monbiot, Minette Batters and Rory Stewart in debate over the uplands. Tuesday 10th July, 7pm, Emmanuel Centre, London. Details here.