Some of you may remember the family who came to the UK in 2020 seekin… Adrian Lawson needs your support for Help Jesus Consuelo and Rachel to stay in the UK.

Around about the time of our Solstice stomp a tiny bird took flight from the top of a thorny bush. It flew north. It flew into another bush, foraging about low down in the undergrowth. It caught and ate a few spiders, hopped to the top and headed to another bush, again North.

“I’m just taking the dogs for walk” …. A quarter of a mile through the suburbs. That’s what most dogs near me get it seems. That was just the start of our walk, that’s all it takes for me to get to…

A Marshian year is twice as long as an Earth year, so Marshians can get a lot more done than Earthlings. Nobody believes we even exist, but look at the evidence. In midsummer last year the marsh wa…

Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...

Most days I have to take Luna for a walk. Today I had Betty for company too They prefer the beach and I’d move to the seaside if it wasn’t for the marsh. So to celebrate the equinox we went for a w…

Back in 1981 I was visiting Hackney and spent a couple of nights in my old flat on the Kingsmead estate in Homerton where I had lived before leaving the Uk. I’d just come back for Christmas and was…

News this morning that beaver releases will be allowed. Whoohoo! I emailed T*rmac and told them I’d like to release beavers on their land. They replied in 15 minutes. At the same time I went for a …

(for a while) We Marshians were back out on the marsh at the weekend. We had a mix of folk, some new to the project and some experienced stompers. This amazing marshland a stone’s throw from Readin…

I don’t know where to start with this. It’s an ancient path crossing the meadows between Coley and Fobney. So if I start at the beginning, that has to be the northern end. Because in 1496 John Vach…

Well, what a day. There was a huge crowd of people gathered next to the marsh by 10am, some I knew, some I hadn’t seen for years and some I’d not met before. All had arrived to help improve the mar…

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A week since the flooding from Storm Bert started and its rainfall has now almost gone from the meadows. A tide mark of leaves swept against the fence less than a week ago shows how much the water …

Tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, eventually accumulate in the soil, in rivers and lakes, and even in our food.