Where’re your roots? I’m from multi-cultural Foleshill in the City of Three Spires, Coventry, the Ghost Town where the toilets all smelled of desperation, and the streets all echoed of aggregation, and I grew up in a time of ska. What’s home? Half-way up a hillside in Brimscombe, with a Read more…
By Richard Mabey An oldie but a goodie. Foraging turns a walk into a treasure hunt, especially with young children, but it also ties you much more closely to the seasons and the very particular ecosystems within a short walk of your home. Mabey calls it an “intimacy with nature”, Read more…
By Richard Powers This is a novel that will fundamentally alter the way you look at trees – a few weeks after reading it, I found myself moved to tears in Box Woods. It is an ambitious, brilliant novel, that has particular resonance as the HS2 rail storyline unfolds in Read more…
Many of us Brits love our beef. The aroma of a roasting joint weaving through Sunday lunches spent laughing and chatting with loved ones. Steaks sizzling over an open fire; the backing track to easy, dreamy summer-evening barbecues spent relaxing. Roadside, train-station, street-corner burgers hotly, greasily punctuating the match, the Read more…
“Electric, oh I can see it, see itIf you believe it then you canThere’s no reason that this life can’t be electric.” Electric by Katy Perry Public electric vehicle chargepoints are vital for EV drivers without off-street parking or workplace charging, and can be useful for others who want to Read more…
“And a new day will dawn for those who stand longAnd the forests will echo with laughter.” Stairway To Heaven by Led Zeppelin It’s difficult to imagine when strolling through Box Woods, or when gazing across the common in any direction, that we desperately need to plant more trees. But Read more…
“Hoodlum, that what you called meRebellious, you can’t ignore meBut never mind ’cause I know that I’m sweeterYour time is up so put more money in your meter.” Doin’ the Do by Betty Boo #aThousandActions is a call-to-arms to get our communities moving. We know that one of our most Read more…
This film takes us through a lifetime of research and exploration of the natural world. It presents the facts, draws conclusions and finishes with an achieveable strategy for what must be done. Watch on Netflix
Kiss the Ground takes a refreshingly optimistic perspective and offers practical solutions to issues in the agricultural industry. Although very American, looking at American agriculture and issues, this film is particularly relevant for Minchinhampton Parish in that it explores the way animals such as cattle can play a part in Read more…
SOLAR PANELS FOR DOMESTIC APPLICATIONS. Solar panels , often mounted on roofs, use the sun’s rays in one of two ways To heat water OR To generate electricity This site does not offer advice on the suitability of solar panels for a particular application but it is suggested intending Read more…