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Nature Matters

July holds the warmth and ease of high summer, a time when the countryside feels open, generous, and full of steady activity. Vegetation is at its fullest now, with tall grasses rippling in the breeze and wildflowers creating bright, shifting mosaics across meadows and banks.

19 August 2026

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Sustainable Woodstock: Jeremy Clarkson - right and wrong

Some WOBL readers may have noticed West Oxfordshire’s most famous farmer admitting climate change is now real due to drought and deluges to have hit his pastures in recent years. It’s a few decades and quite a few anti-green articles late, but Jeremy Clarkson’s recognition of the facts should be welcomed. It highlights the extreme pressure farmers around Woodstock and Bladon face from extreme weather. They are on the climate frontline, 24/7. Where Jezza was wrong though was his assertion that ‘there’s nothing I can do about it’. It’s easy to feel in the face of our mad world we have no agency or means to respond. It’s also complete balderdash.

19 August 2026