More popular than supporting grouse shooting

Chris Packham’s e-petition for a moratorium on shooting declining waders has more than a month to run and is poised to pass the signature total of the e-petition in favour of grouse shooting (which closed yesterday with 25,322 signatures) any time now. Please sign here.  

Mountaineers losing their grip

When mountaineers lose their grip on reality they are in for a hard fall. Errr – we cut down the forests a few centuries before you were born lads. What’s natural about this?  

Delivery by DPD

  Sometimes there are interesting things on one’s doorstep. I was taking a stroll to the postbox the other day when a flock of c25 Pied Wagtails flew over calling. It was nearly dusk and so I assumed that they were heading off to roost somewhere.  I spent some time in the autumn searching unsuccessfully…

Housing near to home

  The Planning White Paper came out last week. I understand that planning is very important, and even that it can be quite interesting, but I’ve managed to swerve knowing much about it for decades and that is still my aim. So, I’ll leave comments to others better informed. But I keep hearing that we…