After nearly 5 years, and 7 quizzes, I’m bowing out as CHAS quizmaster. It’s been tremendous fun. I originally got the role by default – the previous quizmaster had moved away from the area and I knew someone at work who set quizzes for charity, so I offered to ask him for a quiz-worth of […]
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This year I had a repeat of a problem with my strawberries – woodlice. I’d go to pick them, and find many with a little spherical hole near the top, each hole containing one or more tiny woodlice. It was as if I were running a woodlouse kindergarten! It must have affected about a third
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As Ernie Wise might have wrote, here are some wild flowers what I seen on my holidays. We visited Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia & Bulgaria. We were longest in Albania & Bulgaria and most of the photos come from the latter, not due to it having more wild flowers than the others but because we were
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Now that it’s turned chilly, it’s even more important to give your garden birds food and water. If they don’t eat, they don’t survive the cold nights. And they need water for bathing, to keep their feathers in good condition to get them through the night. So please, think of your garden birds while you’re
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Would you like to help researchers at the University of Sheffield understand the sustainability of allotment gardening? Would you be willing to keep an allotment diary for a year? The picture below shows the sort of information they’re after. If you are interested, or you’d like to find out more, please contact Miriam at mcdobson1@shef.ac.uk.
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