September 2014
- Pro-active Canadian beekeepers. Terrific. Let us hope that they win I wish them every success.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/canadian-beekeepers-sue-bayer-syngenta-over-neonicotinoid-pesticides-1.2754441 - Do bees prefer city flowers to country flowers?
Those flower patches squeezed into postage stamp–sized spaces in cities do much more than add a splash of color to the urban environment. The 30,000 schoolchildren in the Big Bumblebee Discovery in the United Kingdom found more bees in an urban patch of lavender than in an equivalent patch in the country, BBC reports. It’s unlikely that there are more bees in cities, but rather fewer flowers, so bees really concentrate on the few they can find. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29122851 - This has been going the rounds of the internet. It does look rather splendid
http://milkwood.net/2013/03/05/the-sun-hive-experiments-in-natural-beekeeping/ - Sign this petition to immediately ban the use of neonicotinoid pesticides in the USA : https://secure.avaaz.org/en/save_the_bees_us_pet_loc/?bhNkKeb&v=46969
- http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/1881/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14814
Interviews
- Where are they now? Actress and author Carol Drinkwater. STAGE and screen actress Carol played Helen Herriot in the popular TV series All Creatures Great And Small (1978-1985) with Robert Hardy, Christopher Timothy and Peter Davison. 0
- NAW Interview with Carol Drinkwater New Asian Writing Online Asian Literary Community interviews Carol following the publication of Hotel Paradise 0
- The Irish Times, December 2017 From award-winning actor to bestselling author: John Rainsford discovers the emotional outpouring behind the writer’s latest novel. 0
- A Python’s Paradise: Carol Drinkwater Interview A Clockwork Orange 50th anniversary exclusive! 0
- Carol Drinkwater Lives the Good Life in France (and Writes About It Too) The Thin Reads Interview with Carol Drinkwater, Author of “Hotel Paradise” 0
- Writer's Forum Where I Write: Phil Barrington visits novelist Carol Drinkwater at her French olive farm 0
- 'As a young actress, I would spend everything that I'd earn on travelling…' Irish Indpendent. Louisa McBride interviews Carol Drinkwater. 0
- Daily Mail: Emotional ties with actress and author Carol Drinkwater Carol on notebooks, her obsession with olives, getting married in the Cook Islands, showbiz running in the family and her days on All Creatures Great & Small 0
