Butterflies in Britain’s towns and cities are having a very hard time – but we gardeners and allotment holders can make a difference. Butterfly Conservation, the University of Kent and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology published a paper last week which showed that butterflies are doing worse in towns and cities than in the […]
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Want to help newts in Chiswick? Netty Ribeaux, Conservation Officer at the Gunnersbury Triangle nature reserve, is looking to recruit volunteers to help migrating newts in nearby Chiswick Business Park. Currently there are hundreds of newts getting stuck in the car parks, unable to reach their breeding ponds. Netty is looking for volunteers who are
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The Spring(ish) Quiz took place on the 28th January.It was (eventually) well attended with 7 tables of 8 contestants. There was,we were told, a rival quiz going on nearby. The Quiz was set by Jo Hodges in absentia as she was at the time up the jungle – which was just as well, given the
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Well this note has had a gestation period comparable to that of the Blue whale, my apologies to all for that. We have a large number of new allotmentauts on the Chertsey Road allotments and I would encourage them to look carefully at the flints they uncover as they put their new allotments back into
Dr Doom gets side tracked yet again………. Read More »
