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Designer Habitat

I'm not a very visual person. I can't see stuff jump from the paper into the real world at all. For me it's a case of trial and error, then...

Martha the Passenger Pigeon

Martha, the world's last Passenger Pigeon, died on 1st September 1914. The last wild one was seen by a boy in Ohio in 1900, who shot it. Passenger Pigeons weren't...

A New Pond

The landscaping around our new house has been coming along very nicely. The meadow areas have been very exciting this year and the forest garden is doing really well. We've...

A Sense of Perspective

I've just got back from an indecently long hols in France, which, yes, was lovely thank you. We did a round trip, with three days of World War One battlefields...

The Green Blob

Owen Paterson wrote an astonishing piece in the Sunday Telegraph yesterday, culminating in an attack on what he called the "Green Blob". For the point of record, I am that...

Birds

I'm not a great bird expert, but I've been thrilled by the avian developments at Hookgate Cottage over the last few weeks. We've had swallows and wagtails nesting in the...