Monthly Archives: October 2024

Humour, Wales, Writing

Brace Yourselves!

My new book is now in the publisher’s catalogue with a release date in December 2024!

My dog can’t read, but if I sent him a postcard, he’d sniff it and know I was fine and thinking of him. If I needed to tell him more, I suppose I’d send him one of my socks. 

In an insecure world, be cheered by the landscape and friendliness of this quiet, green valley, with its unexploded bombs, stampeding cattle and life-or-death decisions. Diana’s off-beat take on life, honed by her years as a family doctor, is one of the things that made her first book, Iolo’s Revenge: Sheep farming by Happy Accident in Mid Wales, so popular. People who read it ask what has happened since?

Quite a lot actually …

Pre-order at https://logastonpress.co.uk/product/my-dog-cant-read-more-tales-from-an-accidental-farmer/

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Ecology, nature, Nature Photography

Would you believe it? Blue Fin Tuna!

Here’s what we saw from the cliffs at Land’s End, the most southerly point of mainland Britain on our recent stay in Cornwall.

A disturbance — turbulence in the water and excitement amongst the sea birds, swooping above the swirling and splashing.

Whatever they are they are large as you can see, we are looking from a long way off.

Is it a shark? It looks like a tuna but surely they don’t swim off Cornwall — all the photos of big game fishing show men in Edwardian dress.

Here you have it — It’s official. The Blue Fin Tuna has returned to British waters. Either because of global warming, or the demise of the inshore fishing industry or because of excellent fishery management — they are back.

Blue fin tuna chasing shoals of smaller fishes around the rocks where the bait fish try to escape by jumping, and the opportunist gulls swoop to pick them off, mid-air.

Will they be fished to extinction again — hopefully not, there are now strict quotas, and fishery vessels patrolling — we saw Fishery Protection vessels as well as Border Force vessels from our viewpoint. A Border Force high speed rib was very actively chasing a fishing boat — by evening, the local News revealed that they had caught 6 tons of cocaine but no tuna!

Undercover surveillance?

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