The belt of rainforests around the tropics may seem distant from most people’s day-to-day lives in the UK but these rich areas provide many essential services – such as providing key foodstuffs and helping to regulate the climate – that it has been all too easy to take for granted, until now. A major new […]
via Rainforests: exploring the global weather maker — Official blog of the Met Office news team
A simple arch at the entrance of Morgado Lusitano, a horse stud farm near Lisbon, divides the ordinary from the extraordinary. Crossing the arch is entering a world where Lusitano horses are treated like the offspring of Pegasus. These beautiful animals exude joy as they trot with elegance and vigor in a field that overlooks the marshes […]
via Riding with confidence at Morgado Lusitano — Salt of Portugal
We took a mother’s Day trip out to this super National Trust Hall and Farm in Cambridgeshire. I loved the parterre with it’s combinations of Box and Euonymous and the Folly tower with some wonderful skeletal trees…
Many place names survive from the early middle ages and from even earlier. The spelling may have changed but the roots are still identifiable. In a lot of cases the names of settlements include a personal name, presumably the most important person – mostly male, but sometimes female*. Other place names describe the location using […]
via Etymological landscapes — The official blog for the North York Moors National Park
A few pictures from a recent walk to Bellever Tor and back to Postbridge, Dartmoor. Glorious day, interesting walk, stunning views and fascinating ‘clapper’ bridge at Postbridge.
I’m very pleased to feature, this week and next, two more excellent guest posts, these by Andrew Parnell. They’ll focus on a particular and, in many ways, unremarkable tower block in Tower Hamlets but will also provide much of the wider story of the era’s high-rise and system-building programme. Andrew is a walking tour guide […]
On a trip to Devon recently we stopped off to visit Clevedon, Somerset, which lies on the Bristol Channel and was once a port for the summer steamers that took day trippers across to Wales and other places. The pier was nearly lost in the late 1970’s but a huge community effort has resulted in it’s rebuilding. It’s a gem and the day we visited the veiled sun provided some interesting lighting effects…
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