Viva Brighton Issue #57 November 2017

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Brighton Steiner School Roedean Road, BN2 5RA OPEN EVENING Thursday 16 th November 6pm to 8pm “A proven alternative to mainstream education for children aged 3-16” Information and bookings: 01273 386300 E: enquires@brightonsteinerschool.org.uk W: brightonsteinerschool.org.uk Registered Charity No: 802036 Glow Wild A magical winter lantern trail 30 November – 17 December Weekly, each Thursday to Sunday For details visit kew.org/glowwild
WILDLIFE ........................................... I am a mole... ...and I live in a hole Illustration by Mark Greco (@markgreco) If your lawn is full of nectar-rich flowers for butterflies and bees with, maybe, a patch of long grass for grasshoppers and hedgehogs then Mother Nature will thank you. But if you’re one of those strange people who demands that their lawn is a perfectly manicured carpet, poisoned with chemicals, shamelessly shaved each summer Sunday and useless for wildlife then Mother Nature will not be happy. She’ll send in her best hitman. So while we remember, remember Guy Fawkes in November, I’m here to celebrate Britain’s other infamous tunnelling terrorist – the mole. It’s hard to bond with the mole. Like 99.9% of us, I’ve never seen one and probably never will. They’re almost a supernatural entity – the bigfoot of the back garden. They’re invisibility means my mental image of the mole has been painted by cartoons and The Wind in the Willows instead of real-life encounters. I’m always surprised when I see an actual photo of one and it’s not wearing glasses. Moles aren’t blind. Admittedly they’ll be struggling by the second line of an eye test, but there isn’t much call for perfect eyesight when you spend almost all your life in total darkness. Instead their pink nose is covered with 5,000 sensory organs which register touch and vibration allowing the mole to ‘see’ with its snout; a super-sense that makes them efficient hunters. Their tunnel network spreads out like an underground web. When a wriggly worm drops in the mole’s senses tingle, sending them scrambling through their pitch-black passageways. Worms are captured, cleaned, beheaded and stored, still wriggling, in a larder for future consumption. Their front paws are like a pair of giant pink snow shovels and come equipped with an extra thumb; a characteristic they share with the giant panda. These wide spade-hands can move an incredible 540 times their own weight of soil in a day. That’s like me moving 55.46 tonnes of mud (and before you go scrambling for your calculators, yes, I could do with cutting back on the beer and cheeseburgers). The molehills that erupt on our lawns are spoil heaps created by the construction work below. OK, they’re unsightly, but gardeners should be welcoming moles. If you’re blessed with molehills grab a trowel. When potted, molehill soil makes an excellent growing medium for seeds and seedlings. Once the tunnels are completed the molehills will stop appearing and, in the long run, mole burrowing gives untold benefits to soil aeration and quality. Never mind these benefits - for me it’s a pleasure knowing that such an amazing animal is living, unseen, a few inches below my feet. Still, people will complain… but I guess some folk will always make a mountain out of a, well, y’know. Michael Blencowe, Sussex Wildlife Trust ....95....
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