In England's green and pleasant land...

I thought this was a very encouraging news item by Mark Easton on BBC News.

It turns out there's really quite a lot of non-urban land out there in the UK. I can't say I was that surprised by the data (I put my guess on around 10% urbanised land) but it is comforting to think that there are still many places where our landscape remains natural.

So little time ...

One of my university friends once said to me (as we took our post-lunch walk around the college gardens)
"If we just had more time we could be such polymaths".

Oh how true: there just aren't enough hours in the day.