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Conwy: Castles, Peacocks & Flamingos

Flamingos, peacocks and tropical caravans might not be the first thing that springs to mind when you think of Conwy in Wales.Read more

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Why I Still Carry a Camera on Grey "Flat" Days...

Are housebound days more bearable in hot and sunny weather or is confinement easier on the cold and wet ones? As week six of lockdown measures in the UK drawers to a close, I'm still not sure.

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Baildon Swifts: Pre-Season Training

"Shortbread or Gingers Nuts?!" These choice biscuits and one or two cups of tea will be the only immediate reward for braving the lofty heights of Baildon's hilly settlements today. Read more

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Good Reads 2020

It’s January, and while others like to experiment with newfangled diets and the latest exercise craze, I like to reflect on some of my intake of books over the last twelve months.Read more

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Elections are gruelling beasts. The build up to polling day is typically protracted, divisive and generally hard to escape! The day of an election is no less intense with endlessly repetitive speculations and relatively pointless predictions. Read more

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BWPA, Coffees and Art on Ice...

Rich Bunce at British Wildlife Photography Awards

It's mid-September and I'm dead excited and it's not because I'm a year closer to turning forty! Read more

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Another Year Blessed With Alfie the Lurcher

Happy Adoption Day Alfie!

As you get older, some decisions you take have bigger impacts than others. The day we adopted Alfie our lives have been turned upside down. In those six years we’ve had to work out many things, but may be the most challenging was keeping Alfie out of bins!

Happy Adoption Day Alfie, our lives all the richer for having you in it…

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Otterly Perplexing

So far this year, on three seperate occasions, I've noticed dead otters on the A65 between the Generous Pioneer round about (Burley in Wharfedale) and Kashmiri Aroma restaurant. This represents a distance of just under a mile. On each occasionI've returned within a matter of hours only to discover no trace of the original road kill. Read more

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Two young boys bird watching through house window. Black and white Photo

Get More Garden Birds in Your Life!

At a time when good news nature stories seem few and far between; a small segment in this month’s British Birds magazine offers some most welcome relief! Read more

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When the final cry of the curlew is heard but not recognised

Pivotal Moment for Sun Lane Green Belt

I’ve lost any sense of how long I’ve been standing here in this hedge. The twine of barbed wire and bramble pressing into my thigh is marginally more bearable than the stench seeping out of the weighty poo bags that hang out in this same hedge. Time evaporates as I watch the first midges of the year stretch their wings and dance, backlit by the shards of early evening sunlight. It’s hypnotic. A sudden, abstract flash of white in the distance catches my eye and snatches me away from my daze. I’m on full alert. It’s blurred and masked by several other hedgerows but there’s no doubt in my mind. She’s here.Read more

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