22/05/2025 / 22/05/2025 by markhaworthbooth
Last week’s blog was mostly about the White Cross wind farm onshore cable route planning decision – reported in the North Devon Journal on 15 May HERE> Thanks to Alison Stephenson for her reporting. This is the wildlife tower built by Cllr Simon Maddocks above Croyde, which he formally opened last Saturday (10 May). It […]
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12/05/2025 / 12/05/2025 by markhaworthbooth
On Tuesday the University of Exeter ran an in-person and online launch for We Are Here, a deeply moving book of poems by the Ukrainian soldier poet Artur Dron’. The university formed an editorial team – including Fiona Benson (see Blog 19) – to help translate this major book. The translator, Yuliya Musakovska (also a poet […]
29/04/2025 / 29/04/2025 by markhaworthbooth
Photo: Caroline Lucas MP addressing Extinction Rebellion demonstrators 1 May 2019 A few days ago I chatted with Extinction Rebellion (XR) colleagues in North Devon about the movement and its future. I found myself stressing that XR had already achieved a major objective by prompting the House of Commons to declare a Climate Emergency on […]
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 […]
15/04/2025 / 22/05/2025 by markhaworthbooth
Photo: Ilfracombe Rosie and I have canvassed in Ilfracombe for Cllr Sara Wilson the past two Saturdays. It was extremely breezy on the first one – easily as bracing as Skegness. Sara is a strong candidate for the county council elections on 1 May and the Greens are best placed to beat the Tory incumbent. […]
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. […]
