columbus crab

Castaways and the Columbus Crab

Stormy weather lures me outside  I do love the summer but I really, really love the winter storms.  Finding something as exotic as a columbus crab is a rare treat. Beachcombing in the dark with the wind howling and the waves crashing is exhilarating enough. But the chances of finding something increase it. The excitement […]

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Edward O Wilson Books

Edward O Wilson

Preserving Our Biosphere – A Tribute to Edward O Wilson I had the new experience yesterday evening of reading a book by someone I thought was alive that same morning but had found, during the day, that they’d died. Reading on, it was unsettling, upsetting, and made their urgent plea all the more urgent. As

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winter wonderland

Winter Wonderland

Signs of Spring As the juggernaut of Christmas goes rumbling past, many people start talking about signs of spring. Now, you may not agree with me about this but I say HOLD-ON…. STOP  FOR A MOMENT. Let’s take some time to appreciate winter. Whilst I live with the seasons and love the spring time, I like to

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12 deer of Christmas - reindeer

The 12 Deer of Christmas

A celebration of Deer at Christmas time In Britain  Red (Cervus elaphus) – With tall spiky antlers, Britain’s largest native wild mammal. Adults never spotty.  Fallow (Dama dama) – With broad flattened antlers, introduced to Britain by the Roman’s or Normans. True wild fallow deer are rare in their native Turkey. Often spotty with a black and white M on their bottoms. 

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Festive evergreens

Festive Evergreens

‘Christian’ Plants that reconnect us with our pagan ancestors  A celebration of festive evergreens. To most people reading this, it’s the run up to Christmas, a time of merriment and celebration. Along with dutiful communications, fear of offence and panic shopping.   Here in north west Europe, religions have tied in with early seasonal traditions. We

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the last true penguin

The last true penguin

A winter’s tale – the last true penguin?  December 1852, sailing home for Christmas, a highly respected ornithologist spotted what he believed to be a penguin off the coast of Newfoundland. The lone bird is widely believed to be the last sighting of the last true penguin.  Was it or wasn’t it?  Was it a

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Can a children's book save the planet

A Children’s Book & COP26

Reading and saving the planet How can a child, snuggled in bed being read to from our Reindeer Book, or any of our other books for that matter, possibly have anything to do with COP26 and the fate of the planet and life on Earth? Maybe I oversimplify things. I find politics mind-bogglingly complicated and

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Reindeer mother and calf

Reindeer

Can Santa’s Reindeer save the Titanic world; the world as we knew it?– We think so  “History makes little sense without prehistory, and prehistory makes little sense without biology. Knowledge of prehistory and biology is increasing rapidly, bringing into focus how humanity originated and why a species like our own exists on this planet.”  Edward

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Inspired by an octopus

Inspired by an Octopus

Creating Octagopus!  This is the tale of Octagopus and how the image inspired by an octopus, came to be.  Octagopus is probably our most popular image after Curly. I may have to enter a sort of whimsy-world to describe her in an entertaining way. So here we go…  She was waiting in my head to

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echinoderms

Echinoderms

An introduction to echinoderms and their weird and wonderful lives. Have you ever lost touch with a relative? It’s a rhetorical question really because you and I are related but our ancestors lost touch hundreds or even thousands of years ago. It is, in biological terms, meant to happen, we are made both to disperse

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