22/04/2025 by markhaworthbooth
In a week of so much horrible news, I start with something very positive – the waterwheel turning at Hele Mill in the video above. Rosie and I visited Hele, just east of Ilfracombe, to deliver leaflets for Cllr Sara Wilson, the splendid Green Party candidate in the county elections on 1 May. Hele Mill […]
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10/03/2025 / 10/03/2025 by markhaworthbooth
The moth that appeared on our summerhouse door to announce Spring on 1 March, which featured in Blog 10, is a Dotted Border, Agriopsis marginaria, which flies Feb-April. The female is flightless and the larvae feed on many broadleaved trees and shrubs – info kindly given me by the North Devon moth expert John Breeds. […]
06/03/2025 / 06/03/2025 by markhaworthbooth
I have read poems from The Thermobaric Playground to the local branch of the Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) on two occasions. The book, published in 2022, opens with a section on my North Devon habitat. There is another section on birds. The renowned botanist and DWT organiser Mary Breeds asked me to join her in […]
13/01/2025 / 14/01/2025 by markhaworthbooth
Cookham-on-Thames Over the past week I was involved with the sudden crisis in local government inflicted on us by Labour ministers, while also spending time with the paintings of one of England’s most popular artists and with my comrades in the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. First, following on from Blog 2, Devolution (Devo) and Local Government […]
08/01/2025 / 09/01/2025 by markhaworthbooth
How strange it was to find the Labour government giving the country three weeks to consider sweeping new changes to local government that no one had asked for, while simultaneously specifying three years for a new report by Lady Casey on Social Care – a subject on which everyone is desperate for action. Could this […]
31/12/2024 / 03/01/2025 by markhaworthbooth
This is a new blog, begun at the end of 2024, by a Green councillor in North Devon. It will reflect on my council work and various activist roles, alongside my lives as a writer – mainly, at present, on politics, wildlife and a memoir – and also as an Honorary Research Fellow at the […]
