Hi all! It's nearly February... where does the time go? Well I can tell you, for the headwater's apprentice I have been methodically working my way through a bundle of invertebrate Surber samples, and by a bundle I mean ...
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Hello again! Hope everyone had a nice Christmas and new year! So, I have been back at work for a couple of weeks now and am really busy already. First some good news about Falkirk's brownfield sites!! Before Christmas I ...
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Okay so last I blogged it was warm and sunny and well it was still summer... So what have I been up to? Towards the end of the summer I had been out sampling the beautiful shores of Northern Ireland for just over 2 weeks. ...
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Hope everyone had a great holiday, I'm happy and full back at my parents working from home so I thought I'd start gently back into it with a bit of a muse. It's a long one but there's important stuff at the end!! So skip to ...
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Apprentice of the fungi and flowers. The snow is here and all my little fungus friends are probably nestled safely under the earth, waiting for a better time to fruit. which means i'm back inside reflecting on what has ...
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