Monthly Archives: December 2015

2015 in review

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Miles King

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 58,000 times in 2015. If it were a … Continue reading →

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The Answer Lies in the Soil

Posted on December 24, 2015 by Miles King

As Arthur Fallowfield, the farmer character in the legendary Radio 4 comedy series’ Beyond our Ken and Round the Horne, would have said, “The arnswer loies in the soil”. I read with interest and increasing disbelief, an article by George … Continue reading →

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More golden balls from Defra: You are spoiling us, Rural Ambassador!

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Miles King

We may have been led to believe that the avalanche of Government announcements on “take out the trash day” last Friday, signalled the end of “work” for the year, but today holds one further surprise. As reported in the Telegraph, … Continue reading →

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Storm Desmond, climate change, land use and what it means for Dartmoor

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Miles King

Originally posted on A Dartmoor blog:
My heart goes out to all the people and communities in Cumbria and southern Scotland who have been impacted by the dreadful flooding. In addition the National Trust is a major landowner in the…

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