I recommend this book as the antivenom to George Monbiot’s book on rewilding (Feral), and vice versa, for this is a book that will make you like sheep and those who, to some extent, look after them in the hills. It’s a very good read and I enjoyed it very much. However, this book is…
Tag: penguin
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Mark writes; see this review of a book all about penguins.
Sunday book review – Penguins – close encounters by David Tipling
Did you like the John Lewis advert? That is what Christmas is all about after all – which retailer has the best advert to get you spending your money. Which of the world’s 17 species of penguin was it? I’ve never seen a penguin in the wild, only a few in zoos, but then very…
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…
Leave the krill for the whales
Did you see Hugh’s Fish Fight last night? I don’t always watch it but I did yesterday as I saw it was about South Georgia and that’s been a subject which I have covered in this blog (here and here). South Georgia is a long way away from here but is a UK Overseas Territory…
Half-cooked protection
Those Yorkshiremen get everywhere don’t they? Certainly Captain James Cook seems to have done. His journeys of discovery are generally regarded as being Pacific Ocean expeditions but to get to the Pacific you have to start in the Atlantic and either hang a right and go around Cape Horn or hang a left and go…
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…