Author name: Richard Clarke

Sad to report the recent death of Martin, a good friend and a learned man. Martin had been brought-up in Oxford, had a private education and studied for his degree at Oxford University. Although reluctant to detach himself from working for Oxford Parks Dept., he did spend his working life as a teacher of English, […]

Having not posted a blog since 28th September I must first of all apologise  for this ‘break of service’, especially as I have discovered from the ‘webmaster’ that I have quite a healthy ‘readership’ for which I am very grateful. This is the time of year when, in he Humberside region, one can see, and

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