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Henry – you seem to be having a great time. #HaveYouSeenHenry?  

Henry was on Salisbury Plain last week – without me! I missed him but it looks like he was having a good time risking life and limb on the firing ranges. Still, he’s used to dodging bullets. Henry and I are out and about today. Keep an eye open and you might see us. I…

When I walk through St James’s Park, as I sometimes do, I am always (and it is always) struck by the number of people smiling at Grey Squirrels, photographing Grey Squirrels and feeding Grey Squirrels.  These people, many of whom are ‘foreign’, from their accents at least, would be shocked to hear this lovely, friendly,…

Henry with Michael Groves (volunteer for the owl & raptor nest box project on Salisbury Plain) and Nick Adams (Wiltshire Raptor Group). #HaveYouSeenHenry?

  I went to the Woodland Pytchley point-to-point yesterday. I used to go to points-to-points regularly but this is the first I’ve attended for well over a decade. Points-to-points are rather low key, low quality steeplechases organised by local hunts. All the horses and jockeys have to have ‘gone’ fox-hunting to be qualified – but…

Thank you to those people who helped me raise £150 for the World Land Trust by going meat-free for a week. It wasn’t difficult. However, last Sunday was the last day of Meat Free Week, and also my birthday, and I was slightly wishing that I could have meat that day (probably just because I…

bit of a hullabaloo over the RSPB being reasonably reasonable here …and an amazing attack on the RSPB’s credibility by the Countryside Alliance who say they agree with everything the RSPB says and always have and always will and love them to bits and just want to give Martin Harper a really big hug and…..