Saturday Cartoon by Ralph Underhill

Can you do me a favour please? I have just installed ‘like’ and ‘dislike’ buttons on this website (I’ve been trying for ages but now I have succeeded).  You should see them on every blog post and every comment made on each blog. Please use them, as the feedback is interesting and may influence the…

Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill

My thanks to Ralph for this cartoon – his idea, not mine. Monday is the day when I send in the manuscript of ‘A message from Martha‘  to Bloombury and everything is on track.  I hope they like it. I’ve been liaising with the artist who is producing the cover – looking good to me…

A tangled bank

        If you subscribe to the excellent British Wildlife then you may have seen my article praising the wildlife NGOs for the State of Nature report which came out in June. I didn’t get the impression at the Bird Fair last week that any follow up is planned.  Maybe I’m wrong, but…

Saturday Cartoon from Ralph Underhill – priceless

    I saw blue whales this summer in Monterey Bay, California – they were amazing and I will never forget them. I have seen more butterflies in my garden this year than for years and years  – and I sent the details to Butterfly conservation for the Big Butterfly Count (you have today and…

Ralph Underhill cartoon and how to cut consumption

    A friend and I were chatting this week over lunch (not as portrayed above) and speculating on how big the task is to save wildlife in the UK and on the planet, and what it would take to make a real difference. We came up with three game-changing events:   1.  A human…