​Zen and the Art of Seeking Out The UK’s Butterfly Species – Part 1

According to what you can easily find on Google, “Zen” is described as a state of calm attentiveness in which one’s actions are guided by intuition rather than by conscious effort. You could surely describe the best motorcycling experiences in this way, a state that I’ve found is certainly attainable by riding stunning roads such as… Continue reading ​Zen and the Art of Seeking Out The UK’s Butterfly Species – Part 1


An Audience With The Queen

Text by Jeremy Cuff (www.ja-universe.com) Photographs by Jeremy & Amanda Cuff (www.ja-universe.com) It may seem strange to talk about royalty in the context of revolutionary Cuba, as they’re normally anathema to one another. However,regal place names remained permissible in Castro’s Cuba, persisting for more than 60 years (and counting) of revolutionary communistrule. The “royal” place… Continue reading An Audience With The Queen


Zen and the Art of Seeking Out The UK’s Butterfly Species – Part 2

Part Two – Reaching The Zenith To explain what might seem like a baffling choice of title, I thought it worth partially repeatingmy introduction from “Part One” of this feature (published in the previous edition of the Butterfly Conservation Cumbria Branch Spring Newsletter 2022),where I described “Zen” as a state of calm attentiveness in which… Continue reading Zen and the Art of Seeking Out The UK’s Butterfly Species – Part 2