‘A Pressing Issue’ is the title of a short article in Pinnacle, the latest members magazine of the Churches Conservation Trust. The article summarises the initial decisions of the Taylor Review: Sustainability of English churches and cathedrals. As I had not previously known of the Taylor Review and as I think this is such an important issue […]

My latest communication from World Wildlife Fund reminds me that ‘With World Water Day, International Day of Forests and Earth Hour, March truly is a time to celebrate the planet’. 21st March = International Day of Forests. 22nd March = World Water Day. 24th March = Earth Hour (see above logo) – switch off your lights

On  the same day that the news that the last white rhino in the wild in Africa had died a communication from the World Wildlife Fund reminded us that the population of black rhinos in south-east Africa (Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa) had been rapidly depleted since 2012 by the actions of highly sophisticated and

Following on yesterday’s blog. Peter Scott, whose print was mentioned yesterday, 1909-1989 and son of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, was a pioneer in stimulating an interest in British wildlife on the B.B.C. in the 1960s. He was a keen ornithologist, conservationist, painter and writer. He was a classic example of hunter turned conservationist being, as a

The above picture is a Peter Scott framed print, probably bought in the early 1960s, and is one of the few things which I have on display which came from the Old Post Office, Boughton and which I acquired after my sister died (see four family history articles in Publications). It’s a picture I have always liked and

Following on from the blog of two days ago I took a plastic(!) bag to the Estuary foreshore at South Ferriby and measured (roughly) 100 yards with the intention of seeing how full of litter the bag would be across this distance. In fact the bag was full in less than half way (see picture). So