ITS IN OUR NATURE

Through the good offices of our old friend Dr Darren Naish, we have applied for, and been accepted onto the somewhat prestigious Nature Blog Network which is, as the name implies, a netweork of nature blogs. In one way I am very grateful to Darren for his kindness in thinking of us, but in another I am furious. This is just what I needed NOT!! Another distraction to take my mind off work!

This evening I have been supposed to be writing a piece about Charles Darwin to mark the bicentenary of his birth. Geoff Ward at the Western Daily Press who is a terribly nice guy, and who - incidentally - has a podcast of his own called Mysterious West which is never less than entertaining, always informative, and quite often features CFZ bods like me and Max Blake, commissioned it off me weeks ago.

But now, due to Dr Daz, I have found myself distracted by The Birdchick a blonde girl called Sharon, who has a mission to show the world that you can be a birdwatcher without being a geek. The fact that she is wearing a t-shirt proclaiming her as a `birding slut` was something that I found rather amusing.

Feral Thoughts is particularly interesting (note to self: remember to pass this one on to Maxy for reference in our alien animals project) because it is about the problem of feral animals in Australia. Any blog which tells of the adventures of Timmy the scat detecting Labrador has got to win my vote.

But there are dozens of others. Even as I sit here, late at night typing up a complaint about how much time I waste on the Nature Blogs Network I have found myself wandering through a whole swathe of fascinating blogs on a whole string of different subjects that interest me. Grrrrrrrrrr Darren. I may never do any work again.....

PS: Only joking