Cressbrook Dale
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16/05/2008
Early Purples in Cressbrook Dale, originally uploaded by Roger B.
Earlier this week I paid another visit to Cressbrook Dale in Derbyshire. In the upper...
Cressbrook Dale
Sympathy for the Devil
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15/05/2008
Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a mans soul and faith
So Paul Staines has faced the judge, kowtowed and pleaded uxorial ownership of a Golf and got off with a non-custodial sentence for a second drink driving offense.
From...
Sympathy for the Devil
Bigby update
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12/05/2008
Thanks to the influx of summer migrants, my Bigby list has grown by leaps and bounds over the past ten days: it now stands at 107 species.My list was also boosted by recent visits to two cracking nature reserves: Leighton Moss and Potteric Carr.Leighton Moss must be the easiest RSPB reserve to reach...
Bigby update
Wild Weekend
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07/05/2008
Yesterday afternoon Liz and I returned home from a long weekend spent exploring the diverse range of landscapes and habitats around Morecambe Bay.
Wild Weekend
Paul "Pot" Staines, meet Mr Kettle
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30/04/2008
A brief selections of Paul Staines' many posts related to politicians and public figures who suffer from drink problems...
www.order-order.com - Hilary Armstrong : "Three MPs Drank Themselves to Death"
Ex-chief whip Hilary Armstrong has gone on the record to the Whitehall & Westminster newsletter...
Paul "Pot" Staines, meet Mr Kettle
Gordon and Frank
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29/04/2008
What is it with Gordon Brown and GMTV? HAs he got the hots for Fiona Phillips something. Anyway, today he was lounging on the eponymous sofa, babbling on about lethal skunk.
BBC - PM 'to send message' on cannabis
"I think people know my view about cannabis and particularly about this lethal version...
Gordon and Frank
Boing!
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27/04/2008
Common Toads, originally uploaded by Roger B.
After a couple of false starts, it feels like spring has finally sprung. The buds are bursting, the birds are nesting... and even the...
Boing!
Flying Pork
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23/04/2008
Somehow I can't help thinking the Telegraph missed an opportunity to dish some dirt with this story about the loss of one of the 3 Reaper UAVs operating in Afghanistan.
The Telegraph - RAF destroys £10m spy plane in Afghanistan
The RAF deliberately blew up one of its own £10 million spy planes...
Flying Pork
10 per cent tax axe
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21/04/2008
First I'll admit to being as annoyed by the scrapping of the 10% tax band as most, but the question that keeps springing to mind is why anyone is surprised.
Even David Cameron doesn't seem to understand what is going on.
BBC - Cameron vow to 'stop' tax changes
"For a good headline, for one day's...
10 per cent tax axe
Interview
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18/04/2008
I was recently interviewed by Elizabeth Edwards for her blog, 1stAngel & Friends. You can read the results here.
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Interview