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The wildlife trusts have finally admitted that there are beavers on the River Wye. We now have two exterminated species back in Herefordshire, the Wild…
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I live in a half-timbered cottage built maybe four hundred years ago, with beams and wainscots and mantle-pieces. I use my mantle-pieces, like generati…
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If you think I’m just lying around in the sun here, loafing on my paddleboard and doing expensive things, you couldn’t be more wrong. Obviously the thi…
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The Big Wood below our house was out of bounds. When my father – who never owned a cap, so could not go cap in hand, and whose hair had receded and lef…
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"The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose." Yo…
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I went to see my MP the other day. He’s the one who was reported by the Daily Telegraph during the parliamentary expenses scandal to have wrongly claim…
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I know a farm up country from here pretty well. I won’t identify it, and you won’t be able to either. I have known the family for quite a few years, an…
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The next post but one - or but two if you count this - is about the way companies behave as if morality has no part in their activities, their only con…
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I came across a neighbour the other day as I was walking up the lane. We stopped to talk and he complained about the roadside verges, saying that the c…
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Bartonsham Meadows is a piece of land down by the river, a ‘ham’ in the dialect, a hundred or so acres of low-lying fields looped by the river and the …
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If any of you have been wondering why I have not posted for a while, I can tell you that there is a new post almost ready, featuring among other things…
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Should they safely graze?
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