by Jools | Jan 15, 2024 | Tell me more
How many people does it take to chop up a Boeing 747? Roughly One….And his name is Andy. More on him later. October 2023 Cotswold Airport Gloucestershire (Kemble) As promised, I’m back at Kemble with Air Salvage International (ASI) to watch the final scrapping...
by Jools | Dec 16, 2023 | Tell me more
I like Stroud Brewery. I like their beer and I like that they are organic and have a beautifully neat history of being planet friendly. I need not do much more than have a few of their cans in my recycling bin to convince myself I care about the environment. But,...
by Jools | Nov 14, 2023 | Tell me more
This month, just like everyone else on Instagram in the Northern Hemisphere, I have been posting photographs of leaves. It’s impossible to take a bad picture of a tree in its autumn clothes. They give beautiful displays of orange and red showing off the brights of...
by Jools | Aug 27, 2023 | Tell me more
She is parked in at the corner of a scrap yard next to a heap of spent tyres. Even with no nose and 4 holes where her engines should have been I know what she is. Her modest paintwork, distinctive 2 storey front section and wide body told me that even with my...
by Jools | Aug 11, 2023 | Tell me more
I went for a walk with Financial Times journalist, broadcaster and forester Joy Lo Dico in her 100 acre wood in Gloucestershire. “Let us cultivate our garden” – Voltaire “I think he found a hash cake in the woods and ate the lot! He was showing all the signs;...
by Jools | Jul 20, 2023 | Tell me more
Every time I drive down the M5 past Junction 12 with Gloucester behind me and Bristol up ahead there is a looming green armadillo on my left. The steaming cream stack throwing out plumes of greyish vapour means that somewhere, deep in her viridescent belly, our...
