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Ramblings of a Naturalist

As an ecologist and biodiversity researcher and recorder, the author visits a wide range of rural and urban habitats mainly close to his home in Sedlescombe near Hastings, East Sussex, UK.

  • By Patrick Roper
  • Based in United Kingdom
  • Roughly two posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2019 2
2020 4
2021 8
2022 6
2023 3
2024 0

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

A trip to Glen More, 1954
My first trip to Scotland was when I was sixteen. At the end of the summer term I was asked not to return to Lancing College, my boarding school, as I was deemed ineducable. My …
On , by Patrick Roper, 1,563 words
Mr Richardson
Mr. Richardson was our part-time gardener when we lived at the Green Walk in Chingford, north London in the 1940s. He used to come round a couple of times a week for an afternoon’s jobbing …
On , by Patrick Roper, 746 words
The Ribes Ramblings
For details of varieties I am growing see end of this postRibes is the scientific name for plants of the currant and gooseberry family. Ever since I was a child I have had an interest …
On , by Patrick Roper, 1,131 words