A different forest
Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire all have a share in the realm of a great forest in the making, the national forest. When visiting this realm do not expect to wander for hours and hours in the shade of great trees, as you might expect in Epping or the New Forest, where you are totally surrounded [...]
Charnwood Forest butterflies
The English summer never really happened this year and I was reminded of this on a wildlife walk this week through the lovely Leicestershire countryside. Autumn is my favourite season, the crispness of the air, yellows and golds of leaves, blackberries in the hedgerow, but little compares to the beauty of our autumn butterflies the [...]
Is there anywhere really wild in England ?
Tearing a slice out of the countryside from London to the north of the country is the M1, England’s busiest motorway. Two miles as the crow flies from this part of the M1 in the midlands, is my home. Hardly the wilderness, one might think but this is where the National Forest is located and [...]