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As well as hundreds of regularly updated pages, Find out all about gribbles here!visit 'the ranger's blog' - featuring not only Naturenet and countryside related stuff, but, as on Naturenet, plenty of other material - more or less at random - that takes The Ranger's fancy. But you can be confident that soon enough he'll be rather sarcastic.


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Eco-everything: are eco-towns just greenwash?
OK, here's a list of things. Check these out: Eco-car Eco-house Eco-plane It's pretty easy to find examples of al...

Health and safety... gone mad?
We've heard it all before... health and safety gone mad! Council bureaucrats stifle fun for little Johnny. And all that....

Balloon releases: Somebody's telling you not to do it.
Mass balloon releases: don't do it. Just don't. Regular readers will recall many reasons why not, but in short, balloons...

Fête accompli
By Ruth D'Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener The Wildlife Gardener likes to get out sometimes. And what she likes most i...

Which is bigger: the Isle of Wight or Rutland?
Regular readers will recall The Ranger's sensitive analysis of the thorny question of whether Rutland or the Isle of Wig...

 

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