September 2017

Discovered this amazing nature reserve Sunday afternoon. Covering a very extensive are and accessed by a narrow circular path (muddy in places), with some offshoot paths, with the area around having been left to grow and thicken naturally. Also a large fishing lake and a smaller managed wetland area designed to accommodate parties of school children […]

For the last week migrating geese have been in evidence over the Humber Estuary region. Whether they are stopping-off en-route further south or planning to stay each morning just after dawn they can be seen rising from their roost and setting-off inland to feed, eventually after much cackling and apparent disorder they settle into their

The final day of the wonderful Cassini mission and the aerial robots study of Jupiter’s outer atmosphere – as well as Huygens on-the-surface study of Saturn’s largest moon Titan. A fantastic achievement of modern science.

I have never been supportive of the idea of vegetarianism as a response to concerns about farm animal welfare – by reducing the market one is not necessarily improving the existence of those animals still in the system. However with a growing world population and demand for meat going-up faster vegetarianism would put some brake

Gave my talk on the River Hull last Wednesday 10 – 11 am at Hull History Centre as part of an extended programme arranged by Hull Civic Soc. for the national Heritage Weekend and to compliment Hull’s City of Culture status this year. More attenders than I had expected. For Barton’s contribution to the national

Today was  global day of action against the transport of live farm animals, particularly the ‘long-distance transport’. The current government have indicated some sympathy with this objective and in the past claimed that it was the E.C.’s that allowed ‘long-distance’ transport to continue (context of Brexit). In fact DEFRA publish detailed regulations regarding the transport