by cornwallnatureconservancy | Feb 15, 2021 | memoirs |
NEW FOREST FOR OUR ANNIVERSARY 10 DECEMBER 2020 The last time we visited the New Forest we discovered a beautiful country hotel called Forest Park in Brockenhurst. A charming feature of the village itself is that it is entered by passing through a ford. Since it had...
by cornwallnatureconservancy | Jan 11, 2021 | memoirs
EARLY OCTOBER 2020 Much delayed by Covid 19 we set off to visit our friends and clients living in the New Forest, finally on the 5th October. We planned to drive up quietly on the Monday, spend Tuesday with our friends Martin and Julia and on Wednesday we would simply...
by cornwallnatureconservancy | Sep 23, 2020 | memoirs
An account of our puma cubs born last year in 2019 On Saturday, in mid-September a year ago, I noticed a bundle of tiny cubs in the Puma birthing box when making my routine feeding visit. As I didn’t want to disturb them twice, I returned to the house and asked Cherry...
by cornwallnatureconservancy | Sep 23, 2020 | memoirs |
Cherry had booked us in at the Rock Inn, Haytor Vale, to celebrate my birthday on 1st April. We have been enjoying lunches there for many years but had never stayed before. Unfortunately, the Coronavirus lockdown put pay to that. But, today, 27th July we are heading...
by cornwallnatureconservancy | Jan 27, 2020 | memoirs |
JUNE 2019 TODAY I MET A MAN Today I met a man, a man of men. I have personally met Gerald Durrell, the conservationist 50 years ahead of his time. I have met Peter Scott of Slimbridge and the Wetland Trust and less well known but undoubtedly equal Tony Soper, who...
by cornwallnatureconservancy | Jan 27, 2020 | memoirs |
SPITSBERGEN – THE REALM OF THE POLAR BEAR 25th June 2019 OSLO, LONGYEARBYEN SVALGARD AND M/S QUEST An easy journey to Heathrow, ending with a night in the Park Inn. We slept like logs ready for our flights to Oslo and eventually to Longyearbyen. Once arrived there, we...
