Beavers, Anglers and Unhelpful Headlines
I had heard about yesterday’s article in The Times from several sources before I’d even had a chance to read it myself. What a very unfortunate…
Silver Shoals
Less than a week till my new magnum opus – Silver Shoals – hits the waves. Some pretty good notices so far: Jim Foster in Trout…
In defence of the rod licence.
I thought I might be last person in the world to defend the Environment Agency, but a circular newsletter that I received this morning has me…
WWF blog – drying and dying chalk-streams
WWF has today published a blog that I wrote for them earlier this summer on the dire straits of some of our Home Counties chalk-streams. They…
Goodbye Orri, my friend.
I’ve just had an email announcing the death, yesterday, of my friend – the salmon’s friend and so many people’s friend – Orri Vigfusson. We corresponded…
Putting the Gravel Back
Minn’s Meadow was our first real attempt at finding a way of properly fixing the dredged parts of this little chalk-stream. Because dredging is the most fundamental…
Where Have All Our Rivers Gone?
Two weeks ago WWF called and asked if I would get them some new pictures of drying chalk-streams. They wanted to update the campaign we started several…
The real price of smoked salmon?
I missed the show, but after a flurry of emails hit my inbox I felt I really ought to catch up with Greg Wallace’s Supermarket Secrets.…
If it’s here, it ain’t there.
Yesterday I wrote a slightly barbed critique of what I felt were unnecessarily vague and conditional comments on the recent floods by an expert on hydrology, Professor…
Science and the English Language
Science and the English Language. A book George Orwell never wrote, but should have. But anyone who wants to write (or speak) accessible English should read the…
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