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It's Saturday and so time for another Saturday Songster post. This week's track is 'Winter' by Tori Amos. Tori Amos is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and composer who came to fame in the early 1990s with the release of her first album, 'Little Earthquakes'. Since then she has released thirteen further studio albums plus numerous compilations... Continue Reading →
It's Saturday and so time for another Saturday Songster post. This week's track is 'I Recall a Gypsy Woman' by Don Williams. Don Williams is an American country music singer and songwriter from Portland, Texas, often referred to as the 'Gentle Giant' of country music. In 2010, after four decades of solo performance, he was inducted... Continue Reading →
It's Saturday and so time for another Saturday Songster post. This week's track is 'Fifteen Years' by The Levellers. The Levellers are an English band formed in 1988 whose music crosses the boundaries between rock, punk and folk. Their name is drawn from the seventeenth century radical democracy movement that was founded during the English Civil... Continue Reading →
It's Saturday and so time for another Saturday Songster post. This week's track is 'Luka' by Suzanne Vega. Suzanne Vega is an American singer-songwriter who began her career in the 1980s, influenced by the poetic lyrics of musicians such as Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed and Bob Dylan. She's since released eight studio albums. The song 'Luka' is... Continue Reading →
With yesterday being the sixth of the month - and so taken by my post for the monthly Six on the Sixth challenge - my Saturday Songsters post was delayed until today. This week's track is 'Suzanne' by the Canadian singer-songwriter, Leonard Cohen. I first heard Leonard Cohen's music in my early teens when my... Continue Reading →
This is the second of my 'Saturday Songsters' posts where I share a music video and song lyrics. This week I thought I'd post a video by one of my favourite musicians, Newton Faulkner. This track was his first single from his first album, 'Hand Built by Robots', released in 2007. After hearing the song play... Continue Reading →
Are you considering heading out and about, or looking for ideas and inspiration for events and projects to take part in over the next few weeks? Here’s our monthly roundup of eco-themed events, large and small, local, national, and global, taking place in August 2018. Don’t forget to let us know how you marked a […]
For a long time farming has been a wasteful, polluting necessity. We’ve needed to grow crops, but the technology available has led to an unsustainable level of environmental damage. Small Robot Company aims to change this. They’re developing a trio of farmbots that could revolutionise the way in which technology is used in food production. Their robots are so […]
Carnaby Street has been renamed and transformed into a pollinators paradise for Defra’s third annual Bees’ Needs Week. From Monday 9 until Friday 13th July you can pay a visit to ‘Carnabee Street’ and discover what can and is being done to help our pollinators. This year Defra has partnered with Carnaby London, the leading West End shopping […]
Growing up in Nottinghamshire’s Trent Valley, pit lakes have always been a part of our lives. Our brothers learned to fish in the Farndon Pits, always hoping to catch the elusive Mobi Pike. Fishing was never my favourite pastime, instead I preferred to spend my time exploring the paths around the area and enjoying the nature to be found. In […]
Children from St. Alban’s C of E Primary School in Havant have been inspiring fellow pupils, parents, teachers and members of their local community to sign up to their ‘Pollinator Promise’, asking people to put aside a one metre square plot solely to grow plants which feed and provide shelter for bees and other vital […]
Are you considering heading out and about, or looking for ideas and inspiration for events and projects to take part in over the next few weeks? Here’s our monthly roundup of eco-themed events, large and small, local, national, and global, taking place in July 2018. Don’t forget to let us know how you marked a […]
