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For me it was the birds
For me it was birdwatching, for my brother it was seeing into the past, mooching around prehistoric burial mounds or Saxon churches.
Nov 14
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Richard Fleming
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October 2025
Neighbours
Who's Land is it Anyway?
Oct 24
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Richard Fleming
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April 2025
The last Great Auks
The last Great Auks, the Dodos of the North Atlantic, were probably caught and killed in 1844 on a rock called Eldey off the south-west coast of…
Apr 12
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Richard Fleming
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Get Off My Land Again!
This has been quite a week.
Apr 2
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Richard Fleming
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December 2024
The Eel Trap
I have been very busy lately working on a campaign to stop the export of elvers from the River Severn.
Dec 18, 2024
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Richard Fleming
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November 2024
From the Sublime...
...to Defra
Nov 15, 2024
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Richard Fleming
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October 2024
Looking a bit like a Penis
Fairly recently, in the huge scale of time when tiny transparent young eels ( glass eels or elvers) have been quietly infusing our estuaries, swimming…
Oct 20, 2024
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Richard Fleming
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September 2024
Peas and Queues
Please note that I have updated Let’s get Together to give a better link direct to my petition.
Sep 29, 2024
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Richard Fleming
Let's get together!
The Bluefin Tuna have been breaching like whales off the coast of Cornwall, a vision of the sort of exuberant plenty that is possible if we stop seeing…
Sep 28, 2024
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Richard Fleming
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June 2024
How Many Woodcock should a Woodcock shooter shoot?
We were walking up Llanvihangel Hill, in that strange border country where the landscape is described in Welsh that the locals can no longer understand.
Jun 13, 2024
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Richard Fleming
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May 2024
The End of Elvering
I have a few odd jugs and bowls about the cottage where I keep things that might one day be useful or that I can’t bring myself to throw away.
May 17, 2024
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Richard Fleming
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April 2024
Eels Then and Now
This is a map of the wetlands of a river catchment system in southern Sweden, on the south-west coastal plain, before drainage work began in the 1820s…
Apr 18, 2024
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Richard Fleming
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