Kingsdowner

 It's tricky to provide a splash page in Blogger so for new readers I'll try to keep this to the fore (welcome). This is a blog that...

  The damage is done, and although the vegetation is coming back the scars remain. The new owner used his earth-moving equipment a couple of...

  There's a narrow belt of limestone that wanders its way across the French/Belgian border that transforms the normally dull area into a...

My inspiration for a trip to the French/Belgian border was a throw-away comment on the Kent Butterflies Facebook page, where James said that...

I stayed in a little town called Chimay in southern Belgium (Hainault) for a few days and was charmed. It's very quiet, just the right s...

A Few Hours' Botanising on Barham Downs, and about Broome Park, near Canterbury........  in 1861 One hundred and sixty-four years ago, 2...

  All the hard work over the winter is now worthwhile - the Primroses on the crew-cut bank are the most obvious sign of spring, but chalk do...