It's possibly going to snow today, but as I write this at 5.30pm, it's just wet. The rest of the country seems to be getting a smattering of snoff and in some cases a right dollop, but here in the South West, damp and dull still. Apparently we'll get it on Thursday, we'll see.
So what has that to do with this book. Well nothing really, other than I didn't have my usual lunchtime walk today due to the rain/threat of snow, and pottering inside the BBC Club, I spied some books which have been withdrawn from the library stock. This one took my eye. As a small tadpole starting out on this wildlife game, I had a copy of this at home. Strictly speaking I think, it was my parents copy which I commandeered. Terribly dated now with some of the facts, it remains still a good grounding in the world of natural history in Britain. I love the fact that within the plant chapters, habitats include a soil profile. Which books now would include a soil structure as an explanation of what lies beneath chalk grassland? I seem to recall books were like that back then, covered a lot of ground within one volume. However what this book does not cover, or hasn't to my knowledge flicking through it, is anything about the sycamore tree? Really? Surely that must be an oversight? I shall have to delve deeper before the nights lengthen and I can go out after work.
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