As this is the last of my blogs for the URBAN BIRDS project – the swift came to mind… Thanks to you all for reading these blogs – I hope you have enjoyed them – and, hopefully, are taking part in the project! This Blog is part of the DIVERSIFLY project: For more details go here Swifts […]
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WHO NEEDS NATURE? Event!!
Matthew Oates, Mary Colwell and Brett Westwood – on stage together!!! In a one-off discussion at Birmingham Literature Festival: launching Fair Acre Press’ BEYOND SPRING – Wanderings through Nature – by Matthew Oates Expect a lively, controversial, and fascinating debate by three of the country’s leading naturalists, and nature-writers. Come armed with questions, or sit back and […]
A bit of a tit : DIVERSIFLY BLOG #12
First things first: let’s just for a moment deal with the word ‘tit’. Since the nineteenth century, it has been used as a slang word for breast, but its origins come from early-fourteenth-century usage meaning ‘small’ or ‘a small creature’. Hope that clears things up. So says Bill Bailey in his Remarkable Guide to British […]
