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Guest Blog – Stop Graveney Marsh Solar Farm
As regular readers will know I take an interest in solar farms and their impact on wildlife. With this in mind, I’m happy to host a guest blog today from Matthew Hatchwell of the Faversham Society. Matthew was Director of … Continue reading
Posted in guest blogs, Solar Farms
Tagged Faversham Society, Graveney Marshes, Solar Farms, Wildlife
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Seven Years of a New Nature Blog
I’m celebrating the seventh anniversary of this blog today. Whoop! I actually started writing a blog nearly ten years ago, back in October 2010 when I was at The Grasslands Trust (you can still find them here ). After I … Continue reading
Reflections on VE Day 75
Lightnings and Vulcans Growing up under the only occasionally used flightpath to Buckingham Palace, every Queen’s Birthday, we would go up to The Green, just in time to see the flypast. I remember going with my dad, who had done … Continue reading
Posted in coronavirus, far right, Fascism, VE day
Tagged coronavirus, exceptionalism, the Blitz, VE day
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Coronavirus Diary; the Solace of Nature
When I went to let the chickens out first thing this morning, there it was, a familiar sound. No, it wasn’t yet another Blackcap pretending to be a Garden warbler. It was the drone. The hum, the incessant background noise. … Continue reading
Posted in coronavirus, covid-19, Nature, solace of nature, Uncategorized
Tagged bluebells, care homes, covid19, PPE, spring
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Coronavirus Diary: Performing Lockdown.
News that farmers and other landowners were starting to erect home made notices telling visitors using public rights of way that they were closed due to coronavirus naturally led to a sense of righteous indignation rising inside me, and I … Continue reading
Coronavirus diary: the Virus that did a no-deal Brexit on our food supply
It seems inconceivable that it was only a year ago (tomorrow) when the UK was due to crash out of the EU under a no deal Brexit. Thankfully that crisis was averted. Leading up to that momentous non-event, I wrote … Continue reading
Posted in Brexit, coronavirus, Food, food security
Tagged coronavirus, food supply, no deal brexit, rationing
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Coronavirus diary: Libertarians, Pandemics and Populism
I had a bit of a cough yesterday. My wife and younger daughter had been ill the previous week with a typical winter bug. Was I fighting it off, or was it the beginnings of the dreaded coronavirus-19? Many thoughts … Continue reading
Posted in coronavirus, Dominic Cummings, populism
Tagged coronavirus, Dominic Cummings, libertarians, populism, Tufton Street
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Coronavirus: an education paused.
My dad’s been on my mind. It’s coming up to ten years ago when he died, after a long and valiant fight against Leukaemia. His consultant was talking about a miracle, they’d never known someone of his age recover from … Continue reading
The Coronavirus Spring
I’ve held off writing anything about the Coronavirus crisis until now. This is partly down to having other stuff to do, and partly because things are moving so fast at the moment, it’s hard to see beyond the latest headline. … Continue reading
Another wildlife-rich grassland planted with trees
Following last week’s post about tree planting on a very species-rich grassland in Cumbria, organised by the Woodland Trust, I’ve been contacted with another story of a similar nature, in Cheshire. This time it’s a piece of lowland acid grassland … Continue reading
Posted in grasslands, semi-natural, tree planting, Woodland Trust
Tagged Grassland, Semi-Natural, tree planting, Woodland Trust
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