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02-09-2007, 07:20 PM
|  | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: exmouth devon uk
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Originally Posted by Dan Salter  Ah but yes thats what i was meaning...you see, a single subscription ( which is all i was going to do) is for 4 mags...which you recieve in ONE delivery ( as its a pre printed affair) and you will get the first gift.....
So to get gift 2 and 3 will require another 2 subscriptions ( or just dont cancel your original one as it automatically repeats if you paid by direct debit) am i making sense or just sounding confusing? | Yes you make sense just checked it out.Missed that bit about 4 mags at once thanks Dan  |
06-09-2007, 11:24 AM
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I have subscribed to it. I have read the first edition and am really impressed with it, and cant wait to be sent the next issue.
All my copies willbe put in the binders and used regularly by the children i will be teaching about wildlife and they will be able to use you as they wish to help with learning and their reseach when they want to.
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06-09-2007, 04:19 PM
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I bought my copy last week and was most impressed. Would be a lovely collection to build for reference, along with the shelf load of books I already have! You can never have too many reference books/ mags I say |
08-09-2007, 09:31 AM
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The Postman has just delivered issues 2 and 3 of Wildlife Of Britaint to me along with a CD of Songs and Calls of British Garden Birds and the first Binder ( you only get CD if you subscribe)
After having a quick flick through them both ( will take them with me to read tomorrow when I am in me caravan for few days) I am even more impressed with this magazine top quality photgraphs and pictures and great data and information. Good quality Binder as well..
Issue 2 is about Fox in Summer,.. Irrepressible Robin,.. Butterflies in your garden.. Drystone walling... Identifying Seagulls.
Issue 3 is about... Social life of Badgers.... Dazzling Kingfishers.. Churchyard Wildlife.... Feeding Garden Birds.... Identifying Conifers
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08-09-2007, 05:19 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2006
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Has anyone seen issue 2 in the shops yet? im thinking it must be a week since i bought issue one? |
08-09-2007, 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Dan Salter Has anyone seen issue 2 in the shops yet? im thinking it must be a week since i bought issue one? | I think its a few weeks before it comes into the shop.. Thats one advantage of subscribing I am waiting for issue 4 & 5 to arrive in 2 weeks time.
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09-09-2007, 12:45 AM
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But its a weekly mag and i bought issue one over a week ago? |
09-09-2007, 10:08 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Bewdley
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After reading Dans first thread i thought i'd buy the first copy and it's not half bad! Since we have hogs in the garden i found the topic of fatttening up for hibernation very informative. |
13-09-2007, 02:31 PM
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Dan Issue 2 is now in the shops saw it today
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13-09-2007, 05:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Kymba Dan Issue 2 is now in the shops saw it today | Cheers kymba...my bloomin place ( hardly any one stocks it) has already sold out of issue 2 with the binders but claims he has another order on the way..... |
20-09-2007, 12:52 AM
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Anyone seen issue 3 on sale yet? i got issue 2 with the free binder.
Id like to waffle a bit more about this mag since i have had time to read most of issue one now. Im more and more happy with it and impressed but not for the reason you might think.
Im shocked and amazed that i have learn about things i and many would expect to know already...no...im not making sense...what this magazine gives me, is the "simple" things...the simple facts that somehow through reading adult level or degree level literature or indeed sitting through degree level lectures...the simple facts are always missed out, skipped over...or presumed already known. Many books do this.
Heres a good example to use,many of my non-nature friends regard me as a bird or butterfly expert, and in terms of my class at uni im the one always called upon (even by lecturers) to ID a butterfly or bird (which personally i think is terrible and gives me no confidence in my lecturers) so again in class im considered the butterfly expert...but it was not that long ago i said..."Yes i can id that Holly Blue for you or that Clouded Yellow...but...ask me to tell you the life cycle of a caterpillar, to butterfly and i would be stuck".
See, i know i learnt it all at school..but that was junior school !.im 34 now..it gets fuzzy...i knew it was caterpillar ( totally forgot the egg stage) didnt then know if it was a pupae, caccoon or chrysalis?...then eventually you get the butterfly ( or moth),..So i could sit through a lecture on chalk downland butterflies nodding along and agreeing like all the others...but how many of them including me couldnt tell you the life cycle of butterflies correctly? and that is where simple ..almost childlike magazines like this one can either jog your memory or teach you the simple stuff people dont tell you as they take it for granted.
I love poppies but other than the obvious non native opium i didnt know how toxic some of are natives can be. or that the horned poppies which i have heard of and could I.D. carry the seeds in the very long seed "horn" and not in the regular poppy capsule?. I was not totally aware of the problem of late mating Hedgehogs and september babies not making the winter unaided..
It really is a good little mag to read in bed and go " Ohhhh..so thats?...." my kids will love it too one day.
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20-09-2007, 07:02 AM
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Dan it should be out next week... If you are going to collect them you are going to have to subscribe as they will only sell the first 4 or 5 in shops.. Then it will be subscription only...
This weekend or begining of next week i will get issues 4 and 5...I pay by direct debit so dont even miss the money.
Glad you have come around to this magazine as i think it is brilliant and yes its amazing what you learn
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20-09-2007, 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Kymba Dan it should be out next week... If you are going to collect them you are going to have to subscribe as they will only sell the first 4 or 5 in shops.. Then it will be subscription only...
This weekend or begining of next week i will get issues 4 and 5...I pay by direct debit so dont even miss the money.
Glad you have come around to this magazine as i think it is brilliant and yes its amazing what you learn | Come round to it? i started the thread on it lol....cheeky sods though i didnt know its only the first few in the shops...i dont DO direct debit and stuff...for private reasons....grrrr.
ill have to sweet talk the old girl...but i see trouble ahead. |
20-09-2007, 06:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Dan Salter Come round to it? i started the thread on it lol....cheeky sods though i didnt know its only the first few in the shops...i dont DO direct debit and stuff...for private reasons....grrrr.
ill have to sweet talk the old girl...but i see trouble ahead. | You can order it through your local newsagent or papershop as well.. it just wont be on sale in the shops after about the 5th issue.. they do that with all these type of weekly or monthly magazines... Its put in the shop just to get people interested..
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20-09-2007, 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Kymba You can order it through your local newsagent or papershop as well.. it just wont be on sale in the shops after about the 5th issue.. they do that with all these type of weekly or monthly magazines... Its put in the shop just to get people interested.. | Ah so i can get the guy in the mag shop to continue to order it in for me but it wont be on resale right?...ok thats not so bad.
By the way....who had an absolute battle trying to get the first couple of mags into the binders? they dont leave you much room to play with between pegs do they and i didnt want to tear anything. |
20-09-2007, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Dan Salter Ah so i can get the guy in the mag shop to continue to order it in for me but it wont be on resale right?...ok thats not so bad.
By the way....who had an absolute battle trying to get the first couple of mags into the binders? they dont leave you much room to play with between pegs do they and i didnt want to tear anything. |
I haven't tried to put mine in the Folder yet.. I hate these sort.. its a nightmare.. so i need to psyche myself up to tackle it 
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20-09-2007, 06:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Kymba I haven't tried to put mine in the Folder yet.. I hate these sort.. its a nightmare.. so i need to psyche myself up to tackle it | Its very fiddly especially if you dont want to damage the pages but i got there in the end.
Cant remember how they used to do it when i collected mags as a kid but it wasnt THAT fiddly and just as effective |
21-09-2007, 09:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Dan Salter
It really is a good little mag to read in bed and go " Ohhhh..so thats?...." my kids will love it too one day.
Dan
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Thing is I had a book with all this stuff in as a kid it was great had a chapter on deciduous woodland, coniferous woodland, ponds, birds, mammals, etc etc.... I think it cost £8.
For Kymba I can see its worth is weight in gold because she can give each kid a section to study and they don't all have to pour over one volume but otherwise I do think you can do a lot better for the money...... no offence like obviously its your money to do what you want with 
and maybe you're planning like six kids in the future or something!! 
and I suppose the 'bite sized' piece of info make it easier to read quickly and absorb....
still I think it's a bit steep |
21-09-2007, 12:38 PM
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I bought the lovely issue 1 of this magazine but forgot all about it after that!  I do hope issue 2 is still available... I'm such an air head!! |
21-09-2007, 05:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Gill Catton Thing is I had a book with all this stuff in as a kid it was great had a chapter on deciduous woodland, coniferous woodland, ponds, birds, mammals, etc etc.... I think it cost £8.
For Kymba I can see its worth is weight in gold because she can give each kid a section to study and they don't all have to pour over one volume but otherwise I do think you can do a lot better for the money...... no offence like obviously its your money to do what you want with
and maybe you're planning like six kids in the future or something!!
and I suppose the 'bite sized' piece of info make it easier to read quickly and absorb....
still I think it's a bit steep | Gill i spend literally hundreds of pounds a term on wildlife related books, field guides and wotnot for my degree...so im not missing out on anything by buying this mag...im just still a big kid and like collecting things...and its easy to read a section last thing at night in bed...i also want to collect the ENTIRE new naturalist series....which is slightly more than 1.99 a go ! ( and slighty more advanced too ha ha)
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21-09-2007, 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by oseor I bought the lovely issue 1 of this magazine but forgot all about it after that! I do hope issue 2 is still available... I'm such an air head!! | U may still find one if you hunt around....they still have it in my town....failing that you can order back issues from the mags website.
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22-09-2007, 05:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Dan Salter Gill i spend literally hundreds of pounds a term on wildlife related books, field guides and wotnot for my degree...so im not missing out on anything by buying this mag...im just still a big kid and like collecting things...and its easy to read a section last thing at night in bed...i also want to collect the ENTIRE new naturalist series....which is slightly more than 1.99 a go ! ( and slighty more advanced too ha ha) | Hope you've won the lottery Dan as some of the old volumes of the New Naturalist will cost you £100-200 each + there's over 100 volumes now, though obviously more recent ones are much cheaper. But hey a landmark series! |
22-09-2007, 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Dan Salter Ah so i can get the guy in the mag shop to continue to order it in for me but it wont be on resale right?...ok thats not so bad.
By the way....who had an absolute battle trying to get the first couple of mags into the binders? they dont leave you much room to play with between pegs do they and i didnt want to tear anything. | Me.I subscribed online and got my first 3 with the binder.I am delighted with the mag but trying to put the first 3 in the binder was a nightmare.So bloomin fiddly |
22-09-2007, 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by cherrybee Me.I subscribed online and got my first 3 with the binder.I am delighted with the mag but trying to put the first 3 in the binder was a nightmare.So bloomin fiddly | Yeah i said it was hard getting them in the binder ( without damage)
and aesh...yeah i know...i have a few already, i have seen the entire collection for sale for around £15 grand lol !
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