Blogs

  • Hugh’s views: Wildlife wipeout

    15th May 2025

    Up until the time when the woodland beside the A1068 was obliterated to make way for…

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  • The Coquet Island ‘airport’

    15th May 2025

    Capt’n Coquet’s Chronicles Coquet Island is home to some 80,000 nesting seabirds each year. The island…

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  • Lily Tibbitts’ Student Life #151

    27th March 2025

    I recently found out that I won a writing competition with Penguin publishing, which is quite…

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  • Hugh’s views: Stinging Nettles: A Plant For All Seasons

    27th March 2025

    At the moment, at the end of a cold February, stinging nettles are once again becoming…

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  • Hugh’s views: Butterflies and dragons

    25th September 2024

    The year started quite promisingly with a single peacock and a small tortoiseshell on my allotment…

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  • Lily Tibbitts’ Student Life

    23rd May 2024

    This July, it will be ten years since I started writing for the Ambler (apologies to…

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  • Hugh’s views: Flowers and frogs

    23rd May 2024

    At the end of March, Morrisons wild flower meadow was cut back despite very difficult wet…

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  • Lily Tibbitts’ Student Life

    4th April 2024

    It’s no secret that I’m not a huge fan of cities. There’s too much noise, too…

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  • Lily Tibbitts’ Student Life #144

    8th February 2024

    One of my university friends is from London (I don’t hold it against him – mostly)…

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  • Lily Tibbitts’ Student Life #143

    21st December 2023

    Recently, I was running a writing workshop for kids all about climate change and the local…

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