NATURAL REACTION
This has been a strange spring and early summer in all ways. Not only have people’s habits been drastically changed by the lockdown, but we have had peculiar weather. It was the sunniest May ever – my solar panels made lots of electricity! It was unusually warm and here in particular extremely dry. All the muddy patches went and were replaced by dry ground.
Meat . . . or veg?
Mary Green looks at the implications of what we eat . . .
It looks as if we are going into April without having any...
Wet, wild weather
Alvechurch amateur weatherman Phil Thomas records the changes.
February was another very wet and windy month. The rainfall to the 17th was 84.6mm, already more...
Hiding in plain sight
Amateur astronomer Brian Watkiss peers into the Village night sky.
The year Marches on and winter finally comes to an end with the Vernal equinox...
Food for thought
Mary Green looks at the way our diets have changed over the years.
I am writing this as a mild winter comes towards its end, hoping...
Garden jobs for March
Hannah Genders offers some tips for getting your garden spring-ready.
This is the month where gardeners start to come alive again. There is a lot...
Go nuts for this cake
Keen baker Jen Morris, of Rowney Green, bakes something special for Mother’s Day.
Mothering Sunday falls on March 22 this year and this is one...
Mild winter so far. . .
Alvechurch amateur weatherman Phil Thomas records the changes.
January continued the very mild weather that we have had so far this winter, although we did...
What can I do for biodiversity?
Mary Green provides 10 ways to ‘think global, act local’.
Last month I wrote about some of the things we could collectively do locally to...
No-dig gardening
Hannah Genders peers into the future of gardening.
I know, I know, it sounds too good to be true! But bear with me because I think...