Following up to June Hughes
Dried beans and chickpeas Mailcopiesto: never 195Thank you . You were unwise to buttume that everyone you encounter gets all their information from journalists. Personally I have no desire to see large areas of lowland or upland Britain covered by...
there's various nature reserves near me. One is a reedbed supporting Bittern, but it got there from old mine working subsistence, so I suspect Nick would not have it as "natural"? The Highlands are managed for shooting of various sorts and much woodland clearance has taken place all over Britain. For myself, I include humans in the natural world and as long as species are thriving, all is well. All of course isn't well everywhere but I don't see it all as doom and gloom. I've walked into the Monadliath through waist high heather and grbuttes to clamber up pathless ridges and see mountain hares, breeding waders and birds of prey, not entirely free of the hand of man, but does it matter? Certainly we need to work out a new strategy for farming land so we get what town dwellers and country dwellers want from it without intensively farming animals and creating monocultures, I'm not sure the EU is capable of doing that. Next problem prediction? East Anglia covered in monoculture biombutt fuel plants. Then I'm within one hundred yards of a piece of ancient coppiced woodland, man made and supporting wildlife, right in the middle of "the stink", but what would I know, probably just "chattering"? Sparrowhawks recently recolonised our area and egrets are arriving along with slightly worrying ring necked parakeets. -- Mike Reid
