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Dear Mark, Thank you for your email. The Museum is currently consulting on plans for a redevelopment of its grounds, from Exhibition Road in the East, along the front of the main Waterhouse building, and on the West from Cromwell Road to the northern extremity of the site (Museum Lane). The plan currently under consultation…

I was pleased to see this in the Scottish Green Party newsletter, referring to shooting estates which are, apparently, ‘ecological slums’. But it was also very good to see Coignafearn, Glen Tanar and Glen Feshie singled out as examples of much better practice. Apparently there will be a motion put to the party conference in…

Sunday was a lovely day. I did some work in the morning and then listened to Desert Island Discs as I set off to go blackberrying. The blackberries were sweet and easy to pick. A Speckled Wood accompanied me along the hedgerow for a while – we both enjoyed the sunshine. A party of Long-tailed…

I revisited the aforementioned jitty (snicket, ten-foot, twitchel, ginnel, loanen or loaney (see comments on previous blog)) on another sunny day. The ivy flowers were buzzing with insects but this time, instead of nipping past (to catch the post) with my mouth closed and my eyes narrowed to avoid swallowing any insects, I stopped to…

The paths between rows of houses in this part of Northamptonshire are called jitties.  It’s not a phrase I had come across before I came to live in this part of the world and it does appear to be an East Midlands’ phrase. As I headed down this jitty yesterday morning on my way to…

I like boat trips – I never have to drive. Sunday was a lovely day, and there’s the rub – lovely weather often means not many seabirds! What we needed on the Yorkshire Belle was a strong wind and heaving seas – but there’s a rub there too – if the weather’s too bad then…

Water Matters is the other document launched by WCL at yesterday’s event in Parliament (click here for agriculture vision). I liked it a lot; it’s punchy. I like punchy! The Blueprint for Water partnership (which includes many of the usual suspects and also Salmon and Trout Conservation UK (note change of name), the Institute of…

So – it’s Jeremy Corbyn. I voted for him so I guess I must be pleased, but I am somewhat nervous too.  Interesting times. Today is the first time I have ever woken up knowing that the leader of Labour Party has politics some way to the left of my own. It’s a strange feeling….