Category: General
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Oakridge Moth Night (aka Tarn’s Sleep-over Shenanigans!)
I’m a novice at moth trapping and have been meaning to get to grips with moths for some time now. I couldn’t resist the opportunity to provide a bit of entertainment for my nephew Tarn when his best friend Ross came around for a sleepover on a sunny evening. Tarn’s house in Dorking is a…
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Encounters In The Wild: Hare by Jim Crumley. A review of sorts
“….what makes you think the Hare is done with night just because she kicked a badger in the ribs?” Ever since the days when I thought I might be a druid, the Hare, along with the bear and the wolf, has been an animal of power and magic in my imagination. This triptych is with…
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Surrey Recorders Meeting 2016: A reason if you needed it to support your Local Record Centre
Forgive the long post but there was so much to say! Last Saturday I was at an event that embodies the spirit of connectivity which has me so enthralled. It’s the fourth time I have attended the Surrey Recorders Meeting organised by the Surrey Biodiversity Records Centre (SBIC to its friends). I have been…
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The story of the Voles, the ditch and the Prime Minister
Originally posted on a new nature blog: Those of us who believe that nature is important and that in order for nature to be better protected from the activities of people the best approach is to gather evidence, scientific evidence, analyse it, and present it to those in power, should heed this story. Yesterday the…
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Creative communities utilise social media to express development in flood plain concerns
Communities across Britain, particularly in the North of England ,are again suffering from the effects of flooding. In Surrey where I live and work, flooding is in the news after a very wet winter, although so far we haven’t seen a repeat of the disastrous floods of 2013/14 which caused much distress to and damage to property…
James T Jones 