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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
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March 2024
High in the Orrels above the Goosepool
High in the Orrels, when there were still geese around the Goosepool, they have nested longer than anyone can remember. They were the noisiest and most…
Mar 14
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February 2024
Ghostly Landscapes
Either side of the train, flat black soil, landscape at its purest – land, and a scape unbroken until it met the sky. Regular ditches to drain the black…
Feb 2
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January 2024
Wild Camping on Dartmoor
We sat on the wooden bench in the morning freshness putting on our hiking boots. They were made of leather; our rucksacks of canvas with leather straps…
Jan 18
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Richard Fleming
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December 2023
Eel Breeding
Eels are found in many parts of the world, from Europe and the USA to the Far East and also Australasia, though they are absent from the west coast of…
Dec 21, 2023
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Peasants
We were all talking about peasants. Sometimes an ordinary word can flip and start to seem extraordinary, or funny, and find a place in schoolboy slang…
Dec 4, 2023
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Richard Fleming
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November 2023
The Sporting Life
The River Teme, the course of only 80 miles, flows through Powys, Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcester on its way from Bryn Goch, the Red Hill, to…
Nov 21, 2023
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Bonnylands
Meadow Waxcaps, a gentle blend of the colours you might see on the belly of a fallow deer, and the glistening bright Yellow Waxcaps and Scarlet Waxcaps…
Nov 6, 2023
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Richard Fleming
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October 2023
The Tragedy of the Commons
A catchy phrase gets a life of its own; once it exists it is deemed to contain some truth
Oct 24, 2023
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Richard Fleming
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Fiddlers Green
When a ring road through our local Lammas Meadows was proposed twenty or thirty years ago, we pushed aside our Terence Conran muesli porringers and went…
Oct 17, 2023
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September 2023
Walt from Vermont
I was sitting at my kitchen table waiting for two Americans to arrive when Walt came round the corner into the yard, followed by his friend. ‘Hi’ said…
Sep 28, 2023
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Cheek by Jowl with Chickens
‘On the (kitchen side) of the partition the family used to spend the whole day, or part of the day, ten of them perhaps, There was a coop against the…
Sep 23, 2023
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