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Blue Monday

Our ground, so hardfaced and unyielding in summer, now saturated, heaving and groaning. Water sits in swales, or oozes from ponds and trickles down ancient holloways under gun metal skies....

Blue Monday

Our ground, so hardfaced and unyielding in summer, now saturated, heaving and groaning. Water sits in swales, or oozes from ponds and trickles down ancient holloways under gun metal skies....

Nature in Nevis

Busy hunting for Hymenoptera I've just come back from the most fantastic week's break in the West Indies. We went to this lovely hotel in Nevis for our honeymoon in...

Nature in Nevis

Busy hunting for Hymenoptera I've just come back from the most fantastic week's break in the West Indies. We went to this lovely hotel in Nevis for our honeymoon in...

Badgered to Death

Badgers or broadband?What's the worst job in the world? Running the @DefraGovUk twitter account probably shades being in BT's complaints team. Whoever the hapless soul is, he/she is currently the...

Badgered to Death

Badgers or broadband?What's the worst job in the world? Running the @DefraGovUk twitter account probably shades being in BT's complaints team. Whoever the hapless soul is, he/she is currently the...

The Stupid Price of Plants

Westcountry Nurseries' lupinsI was at the Gardener's World Show last week with the Bumblebee Conservation Trust and the bumblarium, and reflecting on the price of plants. Regular garden show goers...

The Stupid Price of Plants

Westcountry Nurseries' lupinsI was at the Gardener's World Show last week with the Bumblebee Conservation Trust and the bumblarium, and reflecting on the price of plants. Regular garden show goers...

The End of the World is Nigh

why survival is less important than living

The End of the World is Nigh

why survival is less important than living

Wet Wet... and Still Wet

these floods won't go away

Wet Wet... and Still Wet

these floods won't go away