Tony's Blog

I'm sure that many people will have noticed, over the last week or so, plants blooming when they have no business to. Certainly the phen...

Some weeks have passed since I last visited Newnham Windmill. This is wonderfully situated on high ground between Daventry and Newnham and ...

It's Wednesday so it must be Byfield. Chris and I always have a couple of hours in the village, Chris spending the two hours at the Co...

This is the time to be on the lookout for elephants - Elephant Hawk Moths that is. Not the adult but the caterpillars, and for about three w...

A bit on the warm side! But, as Donald Trump says, the problem of climate change is not man-made. Absolutely right - and the earth is flat a...

Byfield yet again, on a fine sunny day. The weather had brought out many interesting creatures, but no real surprises. A Cinnamon Bug, Cor...

If people are asked to name their favourite British wild flower the answers tend to be predictable: the primrose, the foxglove, the bluebe...