Cat
Poetry
The cat’s in the spinney and wears his white pinny
white socks on the tips of his paws,
he …
Glyphosate: the War on Weeds
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy Notebook[multilanguage_switcher]The five-acre field up our road stretched out like a yellow pall under the sky, desiccated. The local farmer had
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I’m All Right Jack. What the French say about Brexit.
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy NotebookAhoy there over the Channel. Let’s face it: this is no ‘no fault’ divorce: the UK’s legendary lukewarm reluctance
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Spot the Bee with the number plate in London
Blog, Features, ArticlesFlash Info: More follow up on To Bee or not to Bee: Interactive Bee Watching in London. An initiative by
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Bee Flash
Blog, Features, Articles, FranceFlash info: Following my previous post on To Bee or Not to Bee, note that from today Thursday
To Bee or not to Bee
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy NotebookIf you went down to our woods eight years ago you’d have heard and seen ten beehives amongst the birches.
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Mud and Massacre: Verdun 100 years on
Blog, Features, Articles, FranceFrance and Germany come together today, 29th May 2016, at Verdun to commemorate the centenary of the longest and one
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May Day, rickets, and the Forêt de Brotonne
Blog, Features, Articles, France, Normandy NotebookOn May the 1st we took to the woods. If you go down a track in the Forêt de Brotonne
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Kotzebue(ty) in Alaska
Alaska, Blog, Features, ArticlesIt 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.
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Paris a rival for London, Berlin? Les folies de grandeur
Blog, Features, Articles, FranceThe 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.
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