[multilanguage_switcher]The five-acre field up our road stretched out like a yellow pall under the sky, desiccated. The local farmer had sprayed it before re-ploughing and sowing his next crop. He sprayed it with glyphosate – what dosage we’ll ne…
Glyphosate: the War on Weeds Read Post »
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I'm All Right Jack. What the French say about Brexit. Read Post »
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Spot the Bee with the number plate in London Read Post »
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If you went down to our woods eight years ago you’d have heard and seen ten beehives 
amongst the birches. …
To Bee or not to Bee Read Post »
France and Germany come together today, 29th May 2016, at Verdun to commemorate the centenary of the longest and one of the fiercest battles of World War 1, the Battle of Verdun. After 300 days, it left 163 000 dead (Fren…
Mud and Massacre: Verdun 100 years on Read Post »
On May the 1st we took to the woods. If you go down a track in the Forêt de Brotonne – the Forest of Brotonne – you’ll come across a small chapel: the Chapelle Saint Maur. It is surrounded by beech trees and horn…
May Day, rickets, and the Forêt de Brotonne Read Post »
It was the 4th of July and we were in the Iñupiat town of Kotzebue, the largest community in Northwest Alaska. Kotzebue is on the Chukchi Sea north of the Bering Sea and opposite Russia, some 50 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle. Before the Europeans came it was a major Arctic trading port between the Russians and the Iñupiat Eskimos who traded in fur, skins and seal-oil, and later in gold. Trade increased with the arrival of the whale boats and missionaries.
Kotzebue(ty) in Alaska Read Post »
The titanic operations to create ‘Grand Paris’ are under way. From now until 2030, a huge new rail infrastructure around Paris linking the suburbs, together with seven new economic ‘clusters’, will be born – – or rather laboured into a very slow birth. Cost: 3 billion euros.
Paris a rival for London, Berlin? Les folies de grandeur Read Post »
The fog stretched out like a grey pall beneath us. Visibility was nil; we were as if wrapped in a blinding cocoon as our airplane roared, swung up then down then up again and do…
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