me: "have you contacted the airfield for permission to fly drone in their restricted zone?"
colleague "Oh you don't have to, there's a warning on the drone but you can just click OK and carry on flying"
Why do Olympic curling stones cost so much? A trip to Ailsa Craig with Kays of Scotland, who have the only licence to cut the rock, quarrying the granite, and then transporting it to Newton Stewart for working into Curling Stones
Death Of A Miner - 1968 documentary by Phillip Donnellan of mining and a local family, the Elliotts of Birtley. I've only had a skim through but looks really interesting, I will have a proper watch this weekend
@christianp isn't it amazing! I know of a larger open Nature Reserve using to to work out where people are going and therefore the best place to put information and things
Missed this, because I'm not on twitter any more probably - 18 MPs have written to the PM to demand Natural England be relieved of its power to create SSSIs
Objection to public rights of way in woodland near Brampton - because they weren't used during Foot & Mouth, they weren't in continuous use so cannot now be declared Rights of Way.
Not a great news article but lots of legalese about what's required for paths to become rights of way.
Killing with Kindness - trichomonosis, a parasitic disease that is easily spread at bird feeders, is wiping out finches with chaffinches down by a third and greenfinch by 67% between 2008 and 2018.
I liked this bird seed packaging designed by a student, and then noticed the brief was to take a cheap supermarket product then change the packaging so they can charge twice the price, so real prep for the real world at least
