W/c Monday 29th April We have five children from Barton school who take it in turns to get their parents to help feeding and watering the hedgehogs during the week, I looked after them over the weekend. By Friday all 6 had moved into one run, sharing the two nest boxes and getting quite smelly! … Continue reading »
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Hedgehog Release by Vince Lea
On Friday 26th April, Barton Village was host for a group of 6 Hedgehogs which have been rehabilitated by the Shepreth Wildlife Conservation Charity. The CRT helped organise the release pens where they will stay for a couple of weeks getting used to life in the village before the pens are opened up and the … Continue reading »
Some hard facts for ‘Gradgrind’ Gove … farming matters and you can’t eat money! By Robin Maynard
This will not be the first nor last time that Education Secretary, Michael Gove has been compared to the fact-obsessed schoolmaster, Mr Gradgrind of Charles Dickens’ novel, ‘Hard Times’ (with its pertinent parallels to our present economic woes and government austerity programmes)[i]. Gradgrind opens the novel declaiming, “Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these … Continue reading »
Willow Pollarding by Vince Lea
The Environment Agency have a difficult job estimating their budget requirements from one year to the next – sometimes they spend a lot of money pumping groundwater to cope with droughts, and other years they spend a lot on flood prevention or chemical spill clean up. Somehow, there was a bit left in the 2012-13 … Continue reading »
Water, Water Everywhere… by John Terry
Did you learn in geography lessons at school that the rain falls mainly in the West and by the time the prevailing winds reach the East, they have shed most of their water, leaving the east very dry? Well, it hasn’t happened this year. The spring of 2012 was very dry but since then it … Continue reading »
Better to eat horsemeat, than swallow ‘superbugs’? by Robin Maynard
The Countryside Restoration Trust (CRT) was founded in 1993 with the objective of creating a counterpoint and challenge to the increasing industrialisation of the food-chain. A relentless intensification of agriculture which was depleting our countryside of its characteristic wildlife and forcing tens of thousands of farmers off the land, with the consequent loss of the … Continue reading »
Seeing the Woods for the Trees – Vision, Revision and Real Politick, Robin Maynard
January ended up being a good month for England’s woods and forests (Ash dieback notwithstanding). On 31st January, the Government set out its response to the recommendations from the Independent Panel on Forestry. Chaired by Bishop James of Liverpool (highly-respected as a green-minded churchman, and for his part in finally achieving justice for the victims … Continue reading »
