Don’t sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me, as the song goes. Very soon now, the year will have swung around to Valentine’s Day once again. Looking in the rear view mirror of history, it was the day that the ‘man approaches woman’ traditional approach was turned on its head. At other…

You can imagine the excitement when a male and a female Giant Panda came to Edinburgh Zoo. Their arrival was a big deal – in a specially chartered nine-hour flight from China. It took five years negotiating with the Chinese government and the China Wildlife Conservation Association to agree the deal. And there was a…

Smit markers are tools for making smit marks. How things come together when a person gets interested in a subject. In this case it is Beatrix Potter, a great artist, observer of nature, and nature conservationist. Beatrix Potter saved the Herdwick breed of sheet from almost certain extinction. Tamara and I think the breed is…