A new visitor centre opened at Stonehenge six months ago, in December, 2013. Its purpose was to “restore the dignity” of the monument. Mission accomplished? —- The A303 is one of the few major roads in Southern Britain that, in my opinion, is still a pleasure to drive. This is the alternative route from London… Continue reading
Browsing Category Conservation
The computer game that could help save the cuckoo
I hardly ever pay attention to new computer games. I don’t play, and while I admire the skill of the designers, I conclude that they are only peripheral to children and young people’s learning experience, good for hand/eye coordination and not much else. And if there are educational games, are they not terribly worthy, and… Continue reading →
Duke gastropub gains high praise for serving sustainable fish
How often to customers in pubs and restaurants, when ordering fish, make their choice according to the sustainability of that particular species? How many decide not to ask for fish at all because the menu doesn’t tell them where it came from, and the serving staff can’t advise them either? The answer to both questions… Continue reading →
King’s Cross Square deal for Cubitt’s Victorian railway marvel
Yesterday people stood outside King’s Cross Station and celebrated a negative. Empty space. The site of something nobody could possibly have liked, gone forever. Polar opposite emotions to those that would have been felt in 1962, half a mile away, the last time a familiar feature was demolished in front of a station in the… Continue reading →
Will Waitrose’s sustainable fish pledge be a catch with customers?
A new Waitrose opened in our local town of August 8, and we shall be going there in future for all our fish. I don’t mean to make light of the efforts the other local supermarkets have put into selling fish from sustainable sources, but Waitrose has made a commitment that, by the end of… Continue reading →
Sustainable fish – not what it says on the label
The BBC’s Stephen Evans was right to go after untrue labels of packets of fish – “Mislabelled fish slip into Europe’s menus”, April 2nd, 2013. The issue is fresh in the listener’s mind after the horsemeat scandal. (The Daily Mail ran a similar investigative story on fish in 2011.) There is a separate conservation point… Continue reading →