Voting day in the Falklands – but not for penguins or albatrosses.

The human population of the Falklands Islands is voting today (and tomorrow) on their future – whether to remain British or not.  It’s a foregone conclusion that the c1800 adult population of these islands in the south Atlantic will vote to remain British. The Falkland Islands government website has a few pretty photographs of penguins…

leo terram propriam protegat – wouldn’t you agree?

I live in a big village in east Northants that thinks it’s a town, and maybe it is.  We number about 8000 inhabitants and I don’t get the impression that the government is particularly worried about what we all think of what they are going to do (although the fact that we are having a…