The first time I saw Comet Neowise, it had just appeared low on the north western horizon after sunset; a space traveller speeding past planet Earth. Made of ice, water, rock and dust, and three miles wide, it was travelling at 40 miles per second, 70 million miles high. When it last sped by Earth …

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I have always had a fondness for butterflies.  My earliest memories are chasing them around the fields at the back of our house; hands cupped ready to capture their beauty in my tiny hands.   These small wonders of life, brimming with colour and movement, lit up the grasslands and meadows in our Hertfordshire village and …

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