Tag: Thames Water
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Howl! Thames Water – and Wolves
A howl of protest, with apologies to Allen Ginsberg. I doubt he would mind as he was a relentless campaigner for environmental and social justice (I had quite a long infatuation with the Beat Generation when I was in my late teens). I have just received correspondence from Thames Water insisting that I allow them…
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Water, Big Pharma, and Airplane and Grouse Shooting industry scandals; British Wildlife Magazine
Water I feel have written more than sufficient about our pollution for profit water companies and Thames Water in particular, but it beggars belief that even now there is a fresh scandal. Thames Water’s £1m payout to finance chief is ‘unacceptable’, says government department | Thames Water | The Guardian Thames Water and others are…
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Thames Water, Open Cages, Foxhunting, Rachel Reeves, and more Wildlife
The image above and those that follow are from the beautiful setting for food and drink after a funeral we attended last week for the father of a friend, The Old Mill just outside Aldermaston. It was a powerfully moving Catholic service and although I am not religious I do rather like the High Church…
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Trees, water, ploughing, recycling, parties and politics
“I have signed up to the Tree Registry (£18 a year), a database of some 80,000 “champion” trees in Britain and Ireland. Individual entries are highly detailed: genus, species, height, diameter and girth, length of extra stems, recorder’s name, grid reference, owner’s name and address and year planted, when known. Sometimes there are photos. The…
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Badgers & Development; British Steel & Thames Water; Trump and his tariffs
Apologies for the uneven appearance of sub-headers in this and recent posts, a WordPress issue which they are currently trying to resolve. Development “Bats or great crested newts?” “Neither because I want growth.” This was Rachel Reeves in an interview not so long ago. She may as well have said “money” instead of “growth”. Starmer…
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Ambelopoulia, Jeremy Clarkson, Steve Backshall, Maria Vincent Robinson, Thames Water, Cheltenham and more
There is no particular reason for the Wood Pigeon photos, except that I was pleased with them when I took them yesterday: the light and shadow in the picture above, the blink and the textural detail. Ambelopoulia I wrote about the consumption of Ortolan Buntings in France here: Spurn Migration Festival 2024 – Animal Wild…