The UK, along with countries around the world, is on "lockdown". We must avoid contact with other humans. We can only leave our homes for essential activity. Whilst necessary to reduce the spread of the Covid-19 virus, these orders come with many far-reaching and frightening ramifications. Social isolation, broken businesses, loss of jobs, events we …
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Top of the Moths
About a year after I embarked on the task, I can finally report that I have entered the moth records from Alice's notebook into an Excel spreadsheet. Phew! Still some work to tidy it up into a more usable format, but I feel a small sense of achievement. Entries in Alice's interesting historic notebook (left) …
Green Islands
What would it have been like to have been invited to tea with Alice Balfour? From the no doubt variously biased accounts I have read she sounds slightly formidable, at times single minded, but maybe sometimes a little lacking in confidence. Nieces speak fondly of her; sisters-in-law less so. She was surrounded by successful and …
Change?
A lot can change in a hundred years, some good, some bad. During the 20th century a lot did. Perhaps technology in particular, with far-reaching ramifications. But what about the habitats and wildlife of Whittingehame? What's happened to them since Alice and her siblings were around? Comparing the list of moths that I have found …
Rediscovering the moths of Whittingehame 