Once scarcely seen, polecats are expanding their territory back to Warwickshire according to Dr Johnny Birks, an experienced ecologist and chairman of the Mammal Society. He presented a fascinating talk ...
Gully pots are necessary for road drainage and flood prevention. They can, however, be death traps for amphibians. Each year large numbers of amphibians, both adults and juveniles, fall into ...
Following on from ‘Daffodils in December’ I looked around the garden and found ‘Japonica in January’ also flowering early. (To be honest it was there in December too but that ...
This photo was taken in my back garden on New Year’s Day. And the first of these daffodils opened on December 16th so it really was ‘Daffodils in December’ at ...
Crimes were originally divided into less serious ‘misdemeanours’ and more serious ‘felonies’. Felonies included murder, treason, rape, assault, and stealing anything worth more than a shilling. (This was raised to ...
Daisy, Countess of Warwick, had a special relationship with Easton Lodge, her ancestral seat – more so than she had an affinity with Warwick Castle. She had grown up in ...
2022 is the 50th anniversary of the Ugandan Exodus, as it came to be known. My identity card is from 1972 when my family was expelled from Uganda – at ...
