Marchwood Village Traders evening

KEEPING THE FOCUS I have been around long enough and had the experience of working in different organisations to know that it can be very hard to keep a consistent focus on what's really important. The Liberal Democrat part of the Town Council pushed really hard to get the Conservative part of the Town Council…

STEADY ON GENTLEMAN Be very careful, Presidential Candidates, from what I saw of the debate, you are both in danger of giving politics a bad name.

JUMPER v HEATING I have to say that I favour wearing a jumper (or even two jumpers) over switching on the heating at home. I take a certain masochistic pride in not having the heating on (not particularly shared by my wife), but I really like the thought of saving money and helping save the…

UNDERMINING RESTRICTIONS A most unexpected development…. when you look across social media and TV / Radio interviews and press articles, the politicians rebelling against government restrictions intended to slow the spread of the virus are mostly Conservative back bench MP's. I cannot recall many instances of Labour or Lib Dem politicians refusing to go along…

BUTTERFLY COUNT The Annual Butterfly Count received a lot of publicity this year, which is good, along with the number of people who took part in the exercise. The overall headline seems to be a reduction in most species of butterflies but (as always) the detail is much more important. Having everybody count at one…