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When children are toddlers it is so easy to get them outside, the mere mention of “let’s collect leaves” and they have a fit of excitement and run for their wellies. When kids get a bit older any mention of moving 3 feet from the playstation or computer screen is met with ‘that’ face and [...]
I was recently asked by a couple of countryside girls, off on their first trip to London to celebrate their 40th birthday, what to see and do in London without feeling like a fish out of water or spending a fortune. Not for them the dazzling night life or a day shopping for designer wear, [...]
The Oxford University Press has removed dozens of words relating to the British countryside from their junior dictionary. Ms Saunders, a mother that spotted words were being removed while helping her son with his homework, has compared the dicionaries from 1978, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007 and found a vast list of words relating [...]
It has been a month since my last blog post …. in that time I have been wrangling with a nasty divorce, moving home and eating chocolate like it is going out of fashion. Now all that is over I am back to give my views on the happenings in the rural countryside of the [...]
At a time when fuel prices are rocketing and consumers become more environmentally aware steps have been taken to try to introduce more biofuels into the UK transport system. In April 2008 the government, through the Renewable Fuels Agency, introduced the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) intended to phase in increased biofuel usage in the [...]