Eighteen-year-old Ben Hancock-Smith, from Guildford, has won a category first prize in this year’s RSPCA Young Photographer Awards. Ben’s image entitled ‘’Hovering” showing two small flies won the top spot…
December 18, 2022 / No Comment / Read MoreBy Malcolm Fincham By the meteorological calendar the first day of winter is always December 1. Coincidently and simultaneously temperatures were continuing to slide bringing our first notable frosts. Fears…
December 17, 2022 / 1 Comment / Read MoreBy Hugh Coakley The cold weather after the hottest November on record has given us some wonderful frost structures on plants, buildings and spiders’ webs. Here are a few on…
December 12, 2022 / No Comment / Read MoreBy Malcolm Fincham Inclement Atlantic westerlies continued the theme for November as we drifted into the second half of the month. Despite the forecast, my wife and I took the…
December 5, 2022 / 3 Comments / Read MoreHugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon It is probably the quietest time of the year for beekeepers. The bees are prepared for the winter, plenty of honey stores, a dry…
December 1, 2022 / No Comment / Read MoreBy Malcolm Fincham Out of the blue, and just before November had the opportunity to open its doors, an invite came my way for another late autumn trip to Farlington…
November 18, 2022 / No Comment / Read MoreBy Malcolm Fincham Warm westerly winds whipped in to the UK throughout the latter part of October as a ‘beefed-up’ Atlantic Jet Stream continued to command control, bringing low pressure…
November 4, 2022 / No Comment / Read MoreHugh Coakley keeps bees in Worplesdon The weather is drawing in, shorter days and a little bit colder and wetter. Just what we would expect and even hope for at…
November 1, 2022 / No Comment / Read MoreThe Woodland Trust has issued an urgent plea to witches, wizards and spooks everywhere not to endanger wildlife by dumping pumpkins in woodland. “A myth seems to have built up…
October 30, 2022 / No Comment / Read MoreBy Malcolm Fincham Although a little drier than the norm, October began on its usual autumnal theme as daylight hours rapidly began to close in. Surprisingly, however, since the first…
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