The Monmouthshire Meadows Group Spring Newsletter has just been published and is available to download here: MMG Newsletter Spring 2021.  Among many interesting items, some of which are quite specialised, is one by MCC’s Sue Parkinson on their Nature Isn’t Neat project during lockdown, turning vast areas of our open spaces into ‘temporary’ meadows.  Note that the reference on p16 to allowing neonicotinoids has been overtaken by events – our invertebrates are safe from this pesticide for now because the colder weather has killed off the virus-transmitting aphids that were thought to be threatening the crop.