News from the village of Ardentinny, Argyll, Scotland.
We are indebted to our friends at ForArgyll for bringing to our notice the Scottish Government licencing of a seal cull which will see the unnecessary shooting of some 1,300 pregnant seals. Read the full story here.
What you can do
Write to your local MSP here. A useful text template is available here.
Sue Garton, Flute Lessons, Flute Teacher Champaign-Urbana
I’m Sue Garton, a flute teacher who loves teaching flute lessons and sharing the joys of making music, right here in Champaign-Urbana, in person and/or online. FluteKeys welcomes flutists and aspiring flute players from ages 7 through adult.
Whether you want to elevate your flute skills to the next level or you’ve never played flute before, I invite you to join me on your flute lessons journey.
Private flute lessons and ensembles at FluteKeys Studio are just the beginning of a series of motivating and enriching musical experiences. I’d love to meet you and discover your flute interests.
Welcome to FluteKeys Studio, where private flute lessons are just the beginning of a series of motivating and enriching musical experiences.
FluteKeys Studio is located at 1202 Devonshire Drive in Champaign, just a few minutes from the University of Illinois, Urbana and Savoy. Private flute lessons are offered to individuals by flute teacher Sue Garton. Students range from second grade through adult. A free trial flute lesson is encouraged, and parents are always welcome. Click here to read more about FluteKeys policies.
Resident composer & arranger Roland Garton occasionnaly provides pre-publication samples of upcoming new releases.
Flight of the Wood Sprites. a spirited journey for flute quartet (four C flutes with two doubling on piccolo) and lightweight, affordable percussion (minimum two semi-skilled performers).”
Click here to play MP3 file, or right-click and select “Save Link As” to download
I like seeing seals to, delightful creatures, but how many do you want to see. Rabbets are charming animals to, but after the war we had food rationing, even bread was rationed at one time. We had a plague of Rabbets, they eat 5% of our cereals or a slice from every loaf. Farmers shot as many as they could, no one objected because they where protecting their livelihood. There was even a popular song, “Run Rabbet, run Rabbet run run run. here comes the farmer with his gun gun gun”. Then they deliberately introduced myximatosis, it gave infected rabbets a slow lingering death but kept their numbers in check. I can see no difference between a farmer protecting his crop from rabbets or a fisherman protecting his fish.
Just like to point out to Mike Carter the IUCN think that there are about 300,000 grey seals so the UK has about 10% of the worlds population not 40%.
I live in the Shetland Islands and delight in seeing seals thriving around our shores, thank you for drawing attention to this….WHY do it???