Gamekeepers – don’t you just love ’em? They are a profession – did you know? What would be the right collective noun for a group of gamekeepers? This started as a discussion on Twitter last week – so here are some ideas to get your imaginative juices running: a ‘slaughter’ of gamekeepers a ‘dropped the…
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Have done badly, still doing badly
According to last week’s Living Planet report from WWF, we have lost half of the living individual vertebrates on the planet in the last years 45 years. Quite a lot of people wanted to quibble about this, and it is an eminently quibble-able claim, but the essence of the arresting claim must be true. You…
Oscar Dewhurst – Red Deer
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Oscar writes: Red Deer in golden mist: Just before I headed off to Durham to start university last week, I paid a couple of visits to Richmond Park. On one of the mornings there was a thick layer of mist covering the ground and by shooting into the rising sun it gave it a lovely…
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Really Jim?
Local knowledge is sincerely to be prized, and who could know a National Park better than its Chief Executive? Jim Dixon, the outgoing Chief Executive of the Peak District National Park (famed for its raptors, like all our National Parks) took me to task, just a little, on what I wrote about the recently departed…