Animals at Play BBC Two

  I am loving this series about the benefits and purposes of play.  We can all learn from the young animals!Professor Ben Garrod is one of the main contributors to explain the defining characteristics of play:Relaxed…

Mankinholes near Todmorden, Yorkshire – another technological revolution

I just spent a week running a small youth hostel near Todmorden, Yorkshire.  It is called Mankinholes and is in a tiny hamlet up in the hills above the valley where the town is located.A tiny hamlet with a huge history.  For this…

Greg Poole Animal artist

Greg Poole (1960-2018) Greg Poole was a wildlife artist who drew from memory and feel rather than than from traditional realism.  The latter is often the accepted way of drawing animals.  Instead Poole practised a "subjective realism",…