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  Last weekend I went on a two day work shop based near Cambridge looking at 'Fens at Risk'. On both days we had a lecture in the morning, and on the Saturday we were let loose in the Fens to do a little photography. We went to Adventurer's Fen, an area owned by the National Trust close to Burwell. The area didn't look 'at risk', although, with global warming and rising sea levels I am sure it is. I took some pictures to try and illustrate the landscape. The Fens is an area heavily formed by man and a very important agricultural producer at a time where we are trying to be more self sufficient. The loss of this land by inundation would be very serious and also threaten major conurbations such as Cambridge and Peterborough. The above picture shows the National Trust area with Highland cows grazing and a large solar array in the background. The Fens are festooned with pylons and those carrying power away from the array just add to the existing ones. Burwell Lode B...

Spring Bank Holiday is the debut for the series of air displays held at Duxford, part of the Imperial War Museum. We have not actually paid for tickets and gone onto the site for a long time, as it has been previously possible to view the planes from some byways close to the runway. Now these are always barricaded off for 'health and safety reasons', so we sprung for some tickets to attend the actual event. And it maybe worth the extra money for the atmosphere and buzz you get from being on site. It was a beautiful day, too warm for late May but lovely to sit in the sun watching the show. It got off to a real bang with the arrival of a Typhoon which did a spectacular display to the tune of its own music. This was followed by a display from the Harvard trainer and a pair of Strikemasters. Then an Auster Mk6 and a real star, the Apache helicopter with a few pyrotechnics thrown in. Another helicopter, the Augusta Bell Sioux. The...