Archive for the 'conservation' Category

Talking about the weather
Thursday, January 18th, 2007

I know being British it may be considered stereotypical to talk about the weather… but I’m going to anyway. The winds were so atrocious today that their effect on our ‘Great’ British train service meant that I had to miss Pub Standards! I was really looking forward to going too, but with the prospect of […]

Rare Roman snails on the loose
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Running to catch the train this afternoon, I had a bit of a shock as I almost fell over this whopper! …

Absolutely massive snail! I have truly never seen one this big in England before (The one I saw in the zoo doesn’t count!). The shell was roughly the size of a golf ball with […]