Hoveton Great Broad – 26/08/17
A gentle rain is falling, bejewelling the leaves of the reeds with dozens of glistening white diamonds, sparkling as the sunshine tries to tear the canvas of thin cloud. The …
Learning, working, and enjoying nature
‘In converting a passion into a set of facts, [one is] at least following a pattern with an established pedigree, most notable in academia, where an art historian, on being …
Hoveton Great Broad – 17/09/16
Rain. And with it, flooding. It’s quite rare to have a whole day of rain start to finish, with a persistence that fills your ears with drumming and your mind …
Giant Panda’s reclassification shows China in new light
China: often seen as an environmentalist’s worst nightmare with its huge, sprawling, polluted cities, its poor environmental regulations, its culture of using rare and endangered animal parts in traditional medicine, …
Hoveton Great Broad – 10/09/16
he sun wasn’t shining, but we made hay anyway. I felt like a medieval peasant, surrounded by the sweet smell of sedge and mulching reed in the graceful, flat fields …
Hoveton Great Broad – 30/08/16
A moorhen pattered across leathery lily pads, the ripples across the water joining those made by the rising bream catching flies, vacuuming them up from the sticky surface tension they …
Hoveton Great Broad – 26/08/16
I’ve been working on the Hoveton Great Broad Nature Trail for the best part of five months now, yet it’s still surprising me. Before I started I thought my knowledge …
Hoveton Great Broad – 19/08/16
It’s now been several weeks since I wrote my last report, and things have changed with a rapidity I hadn’t expected. I was away from the trail for the best …
Hoveton Great Broad – 24/07/16
This week has been hot. The kind of sapping heat where clothes stick to skin and beads of sweat appear unbidden on sunburnt brows. This has led to many inevitable …
Hoveton Great Broad – 15/07/16
The mixture of heavy rain and warm sunny days we’ve had this week seem to have done wonders for the plants. They’re growing at such a rate they need trimming …