The Ventilator – Page 11 – Incorporating The Ranger's Blog

Not From Round Here

Right. Let’s get this out of the way: I’m not from round here. No matter how long I have lived

Like it or not we’re all having to give some thought right now to the question of what makes us

Back in 1989 I discovered that people would actually pay me to work in the countryside. I could hardly believe

We like to bring you the occasional large invertebrate on this blog. And even a huge vertebrate now and then. But here’s a big

I recently went on holiday for a week to the New Forest – not everso far, I’ll admit, but for

Moaning about the price of Solent crossings is a national sport on the Isle of Wight. “It’s often mooted that

I doubt there’s a spider enthusiast who is not familiar with enquiries about how to keep spiders out of the

These days I’m out and about a bit, so I got myself a fitness tracker from Hi Tec to see

I’m hoping to spend a lot more time out patrolling the countryside this year, and so I have been on

I’m being outsourced. The Isle of Wight Council can’t pay for a full countryside service any more, so some time