Environmental writer and fungi fanatic based in Mid-Wales
Rhayader, Mid-Wales
Joined August 2011
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Foraging is exploding in popularity, but the law covering this is poorly-understood - especially by those in charge of managing the countryside. Here is the first of four blogs covering this opaque area of UK law. fungiforays.co.uk/blog/mushr…
Just to prove I was in the woods for my interview with @BBCRadio2 about this year's bumper crop of mushrooms - here are the chanterelles I picked while I was chatting!
Quote for the week from my alter-ego Ed Reardon: 'Three may be company, but four means a bottle of merlot goes almost nowhere.'
If anyone is interested in a cheap holiday at Glebe House, Pembrokeshire, the last full week in June is now getting a 25% late-booking discount. This cuts it from £800 to £600. It sleeps up to 10 and takes up to six dogs. Late June is also... glebeholidays.co.uk/
Just had my favourite little weasel running virtually over my feet outside the backdoor. She was hunting voles under the railway sleepers. I haven't wanted to bother the barn owls to see if they have more than seven eggs - but Sky is definitely fixed on three.
Yesterday it was the first cuckoo, today the redstarts are back! Now I need the pied flycatchers, blackcaps, curlews, swallows and house martins to tell me summer really is on its way.
Just over a year ago we had the mortifying experience of Holly, our Jack Russell/Patterdale terrier cross killing a pregnant ewe, thus it was with some trepidation that I realised Broch was spending a lot of... facebook.com/daniel.butler.7…
I know you're proud of your country and you don't like being accused of being stupid . . . but how difficult is it to get the flag the right way up? metro.co.uk/2019/03/28/brexi…
Spring is really here! There are chiffchaffs and willow warblers singing lustily around the pond, the brown long-eared bats are back in the living room as their summer roost and the barn owls are down on eggs (although not sure exactly where).
Oh dear! It seems our MP has been fiddling expenses . . . bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-4766… bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-4766…
Here's an idea garnered from Paul Doust's feed (although the original point came from another college friend). The problem with FB's algorithms is that they sift out what they consider to be information which... facebook.com/daniel.butler.7…
Nigel Farage's fury as scientists say Remainers are brighter than Brexiteers mirror.co.uk/news/politics/b…
This is worth pointing out - goes some way to counter the 'those Remainers said things would be bad and nothing has happened! They were utterly wrong!' facebook.com/daniel.butler.7…
This would be funny .. . except for the underlying presumptions. Firstly, about a quarter of the poorest/oldest members of the population don't have access... theguardian.com/politics/201…