OT:Land Lines — finding UK's favourite nature book

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Rhiannon R
Rhiannon Nov 9, 2017 08:25:53
Replying to moss

This looks positive for a change
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/09/uk-will-back-total-ban-on-bee-harming-pesticides-michael-gove-reveals
(and of course there's a new series of Detectorists :)

two things to feel ungloomy about
but I know where you're coming from

N nigelswift
nigelswift Nov 9, 2017 08:53:51
Replying to Rhiannon

Mr Gove as a good guy who won't stab you in the back is a difficult concept to wrestle with.

Hurrah for the bees, but he recently said we should slash EU regulations on wildlife protection and drug safety trials after Brexit“ so I dunno ....

M moss
moss Nov 9, 2017 10:56:36
Replying to Rhiannon

Rhiannon wrote:
This looks positive for a change
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/09/uk-will-back-total-ban-on-bee-harming-pesticides-michael-gove-reveals
(and of course there's a new series of Detectorists :)

two things to feel ungloomy about
but I know where you're coming from

Yes Gove has taken it on board thank goodness ;) And perhaps I was a bit gloomy yesterday, must be Will Selfs' lugubrious face. And landscapes do change with time, but the moors sulk in melancholy brown most of the year, home to sheep and grouse, who will be shot as soon as they are well grown. The curlews disappear gradually as well as the predatory birds..