Natalie Bennett’s loss of thought in an interview today is what has happened to most of us who have been frequent public speakers. Such excruciating moments tend more often to win friends than to drive them away. In an age when people don’t want slick (I’ve always thought that Malcolm Rifkind was rather slick) then…
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A read on the Wilde side
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Here’s a really good blog by young Findlay Wilde. My version of the same events will be posted tomorrow at 0600. The chocolate cake was very good.
OK, Hawk and Owl Trust – where are you?
A recap: the Hawk and Owl Trust has, unbeknownst to most of its members, become very keen on Hen Harrier ‘brood management’ (known to many as brood meddling). This move has positioned the H&OT very strangely in one of the most contentious debates in UK conservation. Rare Bird Alert held an online poll which showed…
Squeal, squeal, trill, croak – but not a peep.
A walk around Rainham Marshes RSPB nature reserve last week was a great pleasure. The weather wasn’t bad and the birds weren’t bad either. There were supposed to be huge flocks of Marsh Harriers darkening the sky, but I didn’t see a single one. It was a day more for listening than looking, actually. A…
Not exactly how I would have put it, but…
This e-petition is protesting about the back-door privatisation of our forests with Fineshade as an example. It’s not really worded in the way I would have worded it, and I’m not sure that it is aimed at the correct government department either, but the gist is right and I have signed it with pleasure. Maybe…
I object, and so do the Dormice
Fineshade EN/14/01704/FUL I object to the planning proposal to build 70 holidays cabins at Fineshade on the grounds that it would harm the conservation status of a European Protected Species (Dormouse). Also, that the proposed development would not pass either of the first two of the ‘three tests’ needed before such a damaging development could…
Have you seen Henry?
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Don’t leave them short
I won’t be buying any boardshorts, as surfing looks to me as easy as falling off a log and just as much fun (a bit like skiing really). But if I were going to buy some smart cool shorts then I would like the idea of them being recycled from beach and ocean plastics. That…
Nene Washes
It was freezing at Eldernell on Friday afternoon but I wouldn’t have missed it for anything. A Barn Owl was sitting on the fence just before we got to the car park – which I could already see was fuller than usual. Barn Owls are just lovely aren’t they? Any visit to a nature reserve…
Chris Packham leaves Hawk and Owl Trust
It’s going to be an interesting trustees’ meeting next week for the Hawk and Owl Trust. Earlier this morning it emerged in a tweet from Chris Packham that he had resigned as the H&OT President. No reason was given, but we can be pretty sure that Chris’s move was not wholly unconnected with the stance…