I visited Northern Ireland yesterday to speak at a BTO conference there. It was a long day (alarm went off at 0430, got home again 2220) but a very enjoyable one. The welcome is always very warm in Ireland, whichever side of the border you are on, and that was true yesterday with a mixture…
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Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Glorious (by Tim Wootton)
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You are running out of time to visit the SWLA exhibition in the Mall Galleries, but you still have Friday, Saturday and until 1pm on Sunday. If you turn up there you might be struck by this lovely painting (or four of them) by Orkney-based artist Tim Wootton. Entitled Glorious, Tim tells me that it…
A volunteer isn’t worth ten pressed men
The RSPB (authors Donal McCarthy and Paul Morling) has done a piece of analysis that is rather novel and very interesting. It also conforms to my beliefs of how the world works, so I like it. Using regulation as a last resort? Assessing the performance of voluntary approaches does just that. It examines UK, EU…
Ash die-back – plague or sniffle?
This morning I spent a couple of hours learning about Ash dieback, and other Ash problems (notably emerald ash borer (sounds nice – is deadly!) and other tree problems. I was invited to attend a focus group (we were quite focussed actually) about how the public would react to various potential solutions to the problems…