Author: Richard

Frustratingly, our leaders, the powers that be, never seem able to actually change anything. Our world is little changed, in many ways, from the world I observed as a child. Yes, there’s lots of noise about different initiatives. There’s lots of noise about flagship campaigns affecting our infrastructure and services. But nothing, in reality, really…

Speaking your mind – or rather writing it – is daunting, as you are letting part of you loose upon the world. Framing a feeling or a thought can also be tricky, as there are limited ways you can convey that concept. However, there’s little point avoiding writing something that’s fair enough because it’s mildly…

Recently, awareness has grown of the damage we’re doing to the world that surrounds us. All of us, really, know that something should change. I agree, and as a culture, we can achieve great things, once we’re aware that action must be taken. Making changes can be frightening, and does require commitment from all of…

An expert once told me it’s too late to save the primates, the mega fauna, the ecosystems in Africa. They’d know. Their life had been spent studying and trying to protect what they saw as Earth’s treasure. Personally, I agree. This was twenty years ago. Nothing has changed, nothing has been done to change anything….

I first saw an Egret (a little egret) from a train window. I was on my way to Cornwall, to meet an English Nature reserve warden. At the time, I was studying the heath fritillary butterfly, endangered through habitat loss, and exploring the use of a computer programme (a version of GIS) to identify nearby…

Last week, I was talking to someone about how some poems come easy, and others take a while to work on and polish up, and I mentioned this poem to them at the time, so here it is. This poem, Gull Gyre, was remarkably easy to write, although I did spend time thinking it through…