Lovely to finish the year in @thatbeerplace.co.uk. Early dart as we need to be home with an anxious pup before the inevitable fireworks begin…

The Telegraph having a perfectly normal one this Boxing Day I see I’m pretty sure most people can manage a walk in the country without ripping foxes limb from limb by ‘accident’

Thick as mince and thick as thieves. A column about the absolute idiots European legislators have made of themselves over the naming of food, at the behest of meat lobbyists. You laugh and then you weep. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners. It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.

The long and winding road

Great day out surveying for hazel dormice. Plenty of other wildlife around in the Welsh woodlands.

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

Statue of Captain James Cook, explorer and inventor of the Wall’s Viennetta.

This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely

But, soft! What shite through yonder window breaks?

We can easily spare a tenth of England for nature without affecting food production! 20% of our land produces just 3% of our food. Vast swathes of our uplands are owned by about 150 wealthy landowners who use it for shooting grouse, and set fire to our biggest carbon sink, our peat bogs...