Live while you are alive
The Egret A snow-white egret passes our cottage By the Gumbo Limbo and the Traveller trees. With its ballet dancer’s step and mobile neck It reminds me of something…… Ah, yes! Alice playing croquet in Wonderland, Striking the hedgehog with the flamingo’s head. Like Alice’s flamingo the egret’s head moves Restlessly back and forth, In …
Ecosystem collapse a risk in one fifth of the world’s countries The spread of intensive farming threatens to jeopardize the world’s chances of meeting the term of the Paris agreement on the climate crisis. Nitrous oxide is given off by the overuse of artificial fertilizers, and by organic sources such as animal manure, and has …
Comedian Bill Bailey is deeply serious about wildlife. He campaigns for various animal charities, and his home in west London doubles up as an informal animal sanctuary. It’s a passion that has led him into some bizarre situations. On a tour of China in 2012, for instance, he was invited to a restaurant where Eurasian …
I was ruminating about self-image – my own in this case – and reflecting on its importance. The idea of oneself emerges as one grows up. Does it stay with you all your life? I suppose this varies from person to person. The purpose of this is to encourage the reader to examine honestly his …
The scientist Stan Cox, in his 2018 book “Losing Our Cool”, blames air con for “resource waste, climate change, ozone depletion and the disorientation of the human mind and body”. Air conditioning emits some half a billion tonnes of CO2 annually, and the coolants used are even more polluting than CO2. Air conditioners fuel a …
