A Real Garden!
Edition A new book gives a new area covered by gardens in the UK. Suffolk has been dropped with Somerset taking over as its area is more...
The Ings of Yorkshire
The city of York may be well known for its history with its impressive minster, Roman walls, trains and Jorvic Viking centre but it is...
Kitty the Toon - Save Newcastle's Kittiwakes
It was by chance how I came to start writing these children books. I was walking down the Newcastle quayside in February 2011 with a...
Crossing The Other Border!
With snow on the fells and roads not so bad myself and Ewan decided to head east into Northumberland on Friday. The first prize was the...
A Future Vision - An Alternative Way to Shoot Game Birds
Since the invention of the gun, birds of prey have been killed to protect game birds, especially as driven Red Grouse moors cannot...
Time to Worship the Beetles Again!
We hear so much about bees being lost to the world but what about the humble dung beetle! This beetle was sacred to the Ancient Egyptians...
Rewilding - Right Place, Wrong Species!
Had a great walk this week at Ennerdale. I think I have only 'touched' the valley before by going to see Bowness Knott, a crag by the...
A Not So Rainy Day!
A New Year and New Blog! I don't expect to do it every day but I do have some wonderful days in a year and this was one of them. I live...