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. […]
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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 […]
03/03/2025 / 10/03/2025 by North Devon Green Party
We are delighted to announce that Sara Wilson is standing as the Green Party candidate for Ilfracombe in the Devon County Council elections to be held on May 1st 2025. Sara is an outstanding candidate who has already shown that she has what it takes to make an impact in local government. Since being elected […]
24/02/2025 / 24/02/2025 by Mark Haworth-Booth
President Zelensky rightly said that President Trump is trapped inside a bubble of Russian disinformation. This has been widely reported for obvious reasons but I have not seen one mention of the source of Trump’s dangerous misinformation. Fox News, or Fox ‘News’, has been pumping out pro-Russian propaganda for years. This is part of Rupert […]
18/02/2025 / 18/02/2025 by Mark Haworth-Booth
Photo: the Valentine I received on Friday My wife has a great gift for creating or finding the soppiest cards to give me on 14 February each year, all of which I treasure. I gave a talk at the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon last Tuesday to its Friends group. My subject was ‘Great […]
10/02/2025 / 10/02/2025 by Mark Haworth-Booth
Making a difference? I wonder, quite often, how much difference I am making as a district councillor. This week I found that I had helped in a way I had not expected. I serve on the joint committee (with Torridge District Council) of the North Devon Crematorium. At our meeting last Friday afternoon, the Crematorium […]