Month: May 2026
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Lost Paths, part I
The Lost Paths, a History of How We Walk from Here to There, by Jack Cornish, Penguin Books, 2025 (first published 2024). I am loving this book. It didn’t take long to win me over, no longer in fact than the realisation that the author is director of England (and formerly head of paths) at…
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Birds, Greenpeace, Norfolk Wildlife Trust and Snoopy
Before moving on to more pleasant matters, a quick follow-up on yesterday’s post about the Green Party, Zack Polanski and the right-wing media’s traducing of him. I have since come across two more disgraceful interviews, one by Mandelson’s friend Trevor Phillips and one by Laura Kuenssberg. Far worse than either is the cartoon which appeared…
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The Green Party
I have generally and perhaps timidly tended to avoid some of the most controversial issues of our times and indeed politics generally in this blog, making exceptions for Trump and Starmer and his nature hating government and their lies. Now with the elections two days away I am screwing my courage to the sticking plate,…
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Nihil desperandum
I have been reminded yet again this week that a path guided by animal advocacy and compassion can be hard, alienating and sometimes lonely. I have caused nothing but trouble for myself and angered others by speaking out on the recent deliberate creation of inbred puppies locally. In the very first paragraph of my first…
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Secret Africa and wildlife and other animal news
A delightful surprise visitor to the garden yesterday, a female Beautiful Demoiselle. She had moved on by the time I came back with my camera but this is a male I photographed in April 2024. A second wolf pack has been euthanised whilst we wait for the enquiry into the killing of the pack in…