This is the 2000th blog here. It’s been fun, and we’ve hardly got started yet! Here are a few personal highlights from the first 2000: First blog – nothing very special here, I admit. First Guest Blog – by Reservoir Cats’s Mr White – still makes me laugh I got a bear! – IM(H)O, one…
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Coming soon – Behind the Binoculars
This is my next book, and we (it is a joint production with Keith Betton) have just gone through the proofs. It should be out in early June despite the publisher’s website saying August! The book is a series of interviews with birders about how they got into birds, what birds mean to them, and…
Still Fighting
This week is World Book Week, apparently, and Thursday is World Book Day, apparently. I guess the other weeks and the other days are World ‘let’s not read a thing’ Weeks and Days. Still, it lets me remind you of some books, including this one of mine. I recently had a lovely email from someone…
Same old song
A reader of this blog was shocked, and somewhat horrified, to find this leaflet flutter out of his Farmers Guardian last week. He cancelled his subscription. This would be an excellent leaflet to give to a mixed group of students – biology students and media studies students – and ask them to analyse it….
Four weeks to go
In the eight months since I launched an e-petition on the government website to ban driven grouse shooting I have become more and more convinced that it is the right thing to do – and even that it is inevitable. Standing just short of 21,000 signatures, this e-petition now has four weeks to gather a…