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Matthew Chatfield
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The Ranger and his friend Cat are off for some overseas travel this month – quitting the Isle of Wight by an early ferry to make their way across the mainland for a weekend in a country house. Are they, perhaps, the ideal examples of rural tourism marketing jargon, being middle-class eco-tourists taking a weekend break in the ‘shoulder months‘? Actually, not really. Well, perhaps a bit.

Fly (c) Cat James

They are actually off to a Field Studies Council training course to learn all about flies, with the Dipterists Forum. They’ll keep you updated with their progress!

Matthew Chatfield

Uncooperative crusty. Unofficial Isle of Wight cultural ambassador. Conservation, countryside and the environment, with extra stuff about spiders.

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