Earlier today I traveled to Dolebury Warren in North Somerset with Bristol University Conservation Group. The purpose of the trip (the group’s final trip of the academic year) was to rebuild a section of wall to provide habitat for various plants and invertebrate species as well as create a new boundary wall for an incomingContinueContinue reading “Dry Stone Walling – the world’s most difficult jigsaw puzzle”
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University status for Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester
Yesterday, the Royal Agricultural College declared that, following the announcement by the Minister for Higher Education extending the use of the title of ‘university’ to higher education institutions with more than a thousand students, it will be applying to the Privy Council for University status and will hence become the ‘Royal Agricultural University’. The Royal AgriculturalContinueContinue reading “University status for Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester”
Devon Coastal Defence Work
This weekend, along with another 8 volunteers from Bristol University Conservation Group, I battled wind and rain to repair the defences to the dune system that the group put in place last year. A Devon County Council Scheme, the structure consisted of a stake system with chestnut paling strips of fencing creating a groyne system.ContinueContinue reading “Devon Coastal Defence Work”
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