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The Valentine’s Freezeout

Two queens peeked back at Montague Pool. Two more women to pile more misery on a miserable day. [...]

The Wind in the Willows

A jolly good yarn for the non-mollycoddled and a chance to enjoy the adventures of a water vole [...]

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Had Orwell been the author, we would have acclaimed its irony and the exposure of capitalism’s cynical blandishments [...]

Morcombe & Linnaeus

At the Botanic Gardens in Perth, Michael Morcombe’s Australian field guide came into my life [...]

Adelaide Aliens & Listing, 2008

Since the mid-1970s shooters and trappers have had to stop the advance of our starling into the west [...]

Hoopoe for the British List

About ten miles away from home a splendid specimen dropped into Sand Bay, North Somerset [...]

Potteric Carr, 2008

This Yorkshire Wildlife Trust reserve is on the A6182 out of Doncaster, just over a large railway bridge [...]

The Revenge of Gaia

James Lovelock is largely rehashing what he’s said before [...]

A Short History of Progress

Ronald Wright really has written a shorty at 132 pages of contents [...]