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...

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...

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...

In nature, symbiotic relationships fall into three categories: mutualism (where both species benefit), commensalism (where one benefits...

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...

In 1990, the wolves came back. In a controversial ruling, the US Wildlife Department imported a load of them from Canada into Yellowstone...

I was worried for a second. If we had scraped together just one more candidate for the Tillington Parish Council election a couple of...

‘More often than not’ said the moral philosopher Peter Singer, ‘there is a compromise between ethics and expediency.’ Too bloody right...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.’...

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...

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...

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....