To the barricades, one pint at a time.
Some time around the summer of 1984, I last drank a glass of milk. I was on top of Snowdon at the time, on a blisteringly hot day, and...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jun 30, 20203 min
When biodiversity bites back
A Quiz Question for you: who was Prime Minister when the last person died of an adder bite in the UK? * Until one group of them were...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Apr 10, 20203 min
A Bomb, and an Irrational Surprise
It’s been there for about 850 years. During that time, the Church of All Hallows at Tillington has seen, like every parish, its share of...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Feb 23, 20202 min
Dominic the Jackdaw.
In nature, symbiotic relationships fall into three categories: mutualism (where both species benefit), commensalism (where one benefits...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jan 21, 20203 min
Utter Prat. Disappointed dog.
It was, by a length and a half, the stupidest thing that I have done this decade. And please don’t let the brevity of time available so...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jan 12, 20203 min
Park Cottage’s astonishing contribution to science.
In 1990, the wolves came back. In a controversial ruling, the US Wildlife Department imported a load of them from Canada into Yellowstone...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
May 20, 20193 min
Fighting back. One pie at a time.
I was worried for a second. If we had scraped together just one more candidate for the Tillington Parish Council election a couple of...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
May 12, 20193 min
Wind in the Bloody Willows
‘More often than not’ said the moral philosopher Peter Singer, ‘there is a compromise between ethics and expediency.’ Too bloody right...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Apr 19, 20194 min
Dear Assistant Chief Constable (3)
Dear Assistant Chief Constable I hope that you and Mrs. Assistant Chief Constable are able to enjoy a lovely weekend in the first of the...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Mar 31, 20193 min
Flawed diamonds; flawless pebbles
The best time to plant a tree, as the old Chinese proverb goes, was twenty years ago; the second best time to plant one is now. As it...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Feb 26, 20193 min
If not you, then who?
Between lunch and some rugby match last Saturday afternoon, Duncan and I got up close and personal to our bees for the first time this...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Feb 7, 20193 min
A very British crime
A VERY BRITISH CRIME I did my bit yesterday, and ruined a criminal’s day. No, please! Anyone would have done the same. The crime I foiled...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jan 27, 20193 min
The Rude Forefathers.
There are few signs of getting older more damning than taking part in the RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch. I suppose beekeeping gives it a...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jan 21, 20193 min
Me and the Kurds.
ME AND THE KURDS I’m not sure what Confucius was thinking about when he said that ‘everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.’...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jan 19, 20192 min
How to go ‘Business Class’ at funerals
My Granny loved funerals. ‘You see the best of people there,’ she would say to us. She would not think of turning up ninety minutes...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jan 1, 20193 min
On being punished by my bees.
They’re still carting ivy in. January bees in our area should be tucked up as part of a protective ball around the queen in the hive’s...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Dec 31, 20182 min
June Whitfield. LBW Westmore. 41
I don’t really drop names, but only because I have so few to drop. If you only have a couple, you tend to take extra care of them....
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