I am reading a wonderful book: Say goodbye to the Cuckoo by Michael McCarthy. It is an elegy to the migrating bird species that, for many reasons, are becoming a rarity.
The story of one took my breath away. The Bartailed Godwit, a wader, breeds in Alaska and winters in New Zealand. It makes the journey of eight thousand miles in one go taking eight days. When the first one is spotted in Christchurch they ring the cathedral bells – as well they should.
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Crash
I fly a microlight – though this is not the hang-glider with a chain-saw engine that most people associate with that concept - but a sleek s...
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Debate
The Chalke Valley History Festival, Wiltshire. Go to it next year; it's wonderful. We went to a discussion between Michael Gove and Tris...
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The state we're in
Matthew Parris is always worth reading. Never more so than this: “We have been living beyond our means. We have been paying ourselves more t...
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Torcello
Torcello. Dawn. This is the fulfilment of a longstanding ambition; to arrive in Venice under sail and to sleep among the outreaches of the l...
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London skyline
The Jubilee river pageant threw a spotlight on the river skyline of London that has been changed, almost beyond recognition in some places, ...
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Stanstead
Stanstead. I overheard someone in St James's (where else?) saying about Stanstead that 'it was not an officer's airport.' Qu...
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