Category: Bulletin 37

St Michaels Environmental and Education Centre, Main Rd, Hathersage, Hope Valley S32 1BB, UK         The actual AGM will be on the Saturday from 4-6pm, meaning there will be plenty of time to get into the countryside on both days. It will be followed by the big meal and a quiz. There…

A review of “Our Place” by Mark Cocker (ISBN 9780224102292, Jonathan Cape) The “State of Nature” report on Britain was published in 2013. Over 3400 species were studied and it was found 60 per cent had declined in the last half century, with 31 percent declining badly. 600 were threatened with extinction. While some species…

I attended the BMC AGM weekend in Buxton on Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 March 2019. There was a workshop for club’s reps on the Saturday afternoon which was well run and stimulating. Another on the Sunday morning was attended by at least twice as many people and seemed less satisfactory. The AGM later rubber-stamped…

A popular rest-day activity for walkers on the Isle of Arran, when weather conditions or simple fatigue rule out another day on the hills, is to take the ferry across Lamlash Bay to Holy Island. This has been owned since 1992 by a Tibetan Buddhist Trust, which runs a guest house and offers courses and…