I received a large bundle of paperwork in the post on Christmas Eve. The letter was from the Scottish Government’s Environmental Quality Directorate; Water, Air, Soils and Flooding Division. It details the mandatory measures required by the revised Action Programme to limit nitrate pollution from agricultural sources in the designated Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs).
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Tag Archives: Environment
Brrrr!
1 October, 2008
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Yesterday, I was working in the vegetable patch dressed in a boiler suit, shirt, trousers, single pair of socks and my wellies. The sun was shining intermittently and, while it was cool, working outside was fairly comfortable. This morning, I put on similar clothing, topped with a jacket, and headed out to do the chores.
Read moreNot so common
4 September, 2008
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The common frog is usually found in damp places around ponds, but not this fellow. I found him hiding under the potato haulms as I cut them back—fortunately seeing him just in time to swing the scythe up and over his back. The common frog is becoming more rare in the UK due to habitat [...]
Read moreWho really uses the most electricity?
29 August, 2008
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I’ve received another comment criticising our apparently profligate electricity consumption, but as with the emails I regularly receive on the subject the author has based his criticism on erroneous assumptions and a failure to grasp the lack of transparency in most Westerners’ energy consumption. The first incorrect assumption was that our tariff was 8 pence [...]
Read moreAn injured flutterby
28 August, 2008
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As I was feeding the chickens this evening, the Wee ‘Un was nosing about for “bugs and stuff”. To his delight, he found a “flutterby” only to be dismayed when he realised it was injured. He called me over to have a look, but its wings had been scorched and its chances of survival were [...]
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