This is a charming book, but lest that sounds a bit condescending (it wasn’t meant to be) it is also a cracking good read. Bill Meek is an ex-CEH ecologist who wrote a column for his local paper, the Cleethorpes Chronicle, for three and a half years. In that column he aimed to inform, entertain…
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Sunday book review – Our Place by Mark Cocker
This is the best book on the state of nature since George Monbiot’s Feral and deserves to be read just as widely. It’s been quite a long time in the making. I interviewed Mark Cocker for Behind the Binoculars back in January 2014 and at the same time he interviewed me and a few…
Last week
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I enjoyed last week – here are some highlights: Monday – Ring-necked Parakeet in London – year tick Tuesday – woke in London at 0530 to the beautiful sound of a singing Blackbird Tuesday – planned the downfall of driven grouse shooting over lunch with friends (can’t fail!) Wednesday – windy, rainy, but went for…
Looking back over 2017
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I sometimes think that this blog only writes about banning driven grouse shooting – important though that is to me, it is not the only thing in the world. But looking back over the year and the blogs I have written myself, there is a fair amount of variety. Here are some blogs, one from…
Last chance…
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If you’d like to enter this blog’s writing competition then you had better get a move on – entries close at midnight tonight. Your task is to write a review of George Monbiot’s Feral and send it to me at [email protected]. I’ve had some entries already but not so many as to make you think…