Monthly Archives: April 2015
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Posted: April 27, 2015Read more »
Non-native species are the second most serious threat to global biodiversity after habitat loss and cost the Scottish economy about £246m. And these non native species can be of very long standing like the humble rabbit.
At it Like Rabbits
Rabbits, which arrived in Britain with the Romans cause about £81m worth of damage in Scotland every single year. So you can imagine there were some qualms about...
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Posted: April 27, 2015Read more »
A while ago I wrote about historic Upper Clydesdale gold which made up the regalia of the Scottish Crown Jewels, but a Turkish mining company seems to have been reading as they have now announced that Scotland still has gold worth mining!
Scottish Gold
Gold prospectors have found a major deposit in the tiny Aberdeenshire hamlet of Towie, no relation to the TV series, is bracing itself for the world's...
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Posted: April 27, 2015Read more »
Next time you are lucky or unlucky enough to find yourself in London you won’t feel as welcome as London Mayor Boris Johnson’s administration has stopped the playing of bagpipes from anywhere where there are flats, offices, hotels and shops.
Buskers Beware
New rules governing busking in the southern capital mean that repetitive loud noises are to be more rigorously controlled. Pipers are naturally...
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Posted: April 21, 2015Read more »
A Sweet Tooth, or Iron in the Soul?
Sugar the Pill
The sixth anniversary is traditionally the sugar anniversary in UK culture, which reflects how once upon a time tea, coffee and sugar was the preserve of the better off. All three were thought originally to have health giving properties but not as many as the health giving properties of huge profits to the sugar merchants pockets. Now if you want to...
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Posted: April 13, 2015Read more »
Orphan brother and sister red squirrels have been found and saved from the wild in Perthshire. The five week old twins are being looked after in the SPCA ‘s Fishcross National Wildlife Rescue Centre not far from Bridge of Allen.
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Posted: April 13, 2015Read more »
A Grouse Named Jock
Picture the scene, the sun glinting on a beautiful Highland Glen, the smell of heather and call of the birds – then a loony Red Grouse comes hurtling towards you trying to head butt your car.
The Grouse has been nicknamed “Jock” after his dive bombing exploits we witnessed by visitors to a single track road near Dunkeld. This display of naked aggression is a first in Red Grouse...
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Posted: April 13, 2015Read more »
Children hunting Easter eggs discovered a frightened fox cub on a farm near Auchnagett, Aberdeenshire. The cub, named Fidget, is now being looked after at the nearby New Arc Centre.
The fox cub is a three-week-old male was named Fidget and is one of the centres first orphan admissions of the spring season.
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Posted: April 02, 2015Read more »
The history of Easter eggs dates back to before Christian times when painted eggs were regarded as symbols of regeneration, with the chick emerging from the egg and the beginning of spring. So it was natural that after the first Easter the egg would become part of the Christian tradition. Hot cross buns are of course symbols of the cross and the old rhyme has lasted centuries, this one from 1733...
