…and despite the Protection of Birds Act being enacted in 1954, Hen Harriers are still bumped off in the hills of our realm. Henry wishes Her Majesty all the best on this special day and is sure that she wishes him every good health too. Henry isn’t even 7 months old yet – I wonder…
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Poached
Yesterday evening I went to an International Film Premiere which was strange in itself. But I knew about half a dozen people who appeared in the film and about half of the people in the audience! Weird! The film is called Poached and it’s about egg-collecting or egg-stealing – Poached! Geddit?! It’s a film about…
Blackberries
I have been picking blackberries off this hedge for 30 years. I’ve blogged about it before (Season mists and …blackberries, 6 Sep 2010, Blackberry makes $1bn loss, 24 September 2013). This year the blackberries are numerous but very few of them are ripe, and even they are not…
It’s unpredictably good or bad
My late-flowering buddleia is a delight – in a good year. It’s too early to tell if this year is a good year. It really comes into its own in an indian summer when there are few other flowering plants around and it acts like a butterfly magnet. Yesterday afternoon there was this Painted Lady…
Meet the tuluver
Click here – it’s quite good fun.
Would you like diclofenac with that ?
Tomorrow is vulture awareness day, and I see that today, staff at the RSPB HQ in Sandy are having a vulture themed lunch! ‘Pass on the diclofenac’ should be the message and that message is getting through after years of effort. I took the paper to the RSPB Board to get involved in vulture conservation…
Keep one, drop one
Last year, at about this time of year, I joined both the Hawk and Owl Trust and the League Against Cruel Sports. Because of their eager campaigning for brood meddling for Hen Harriers I have left the H&OT (I must put that metal badge in the post to them) but I recently got a renewal…
It’s got to be Corbyn
…and it’s going to be Corbyn. So we had all better start getting used to the idea. It’s going to be interesting: will Corbyn rise to the challenge of leadership? will Corbyn unite the Labour Party? does Labour want to be united? will Corbyn rattle an experienced David Cameron at PM’s Questions? will the losing…
IPSO facto
IPSO are investigating our complaint against the Daily Telegraph and have selected my complaint as the ‘lead complaint’ they tell me: ‘I write regarding your complaint against The Daily Telegraph. As you may be aware, the newspaper received a number of complaints about this article. In these circumstances, we will select a lead complaint for…
Gizza job!
I can do that! Yosser Hughes is applying for a job in Fordingbridge and all he has to do to get it is to put the initials of the Conservancy Trust Game Wildlife in the right order. I can do that… Gizza job, I can do that. Gizza job. GWTC? CTWG? WGTC? Gizza…