Advance warning - we are hoping to arrange another one-day workshop session at Newbridge, probably in October. Suggestions for topics welcome (add a comment below).

Steve is planning a visit to Ynyshir RSPB Reserve, N. Ceredigion, on 24 September, mainly  to check out Arthonia atlantica, but there will be plenty else to see. Any of the apprentices who are able to come are welcome. Please liaise directly with Steve or express your interest in a comment below. 

(Note that the details on the website for locations of A. atlantica in Wales are woefully inadequate and this will be addressed soon).

The communities section is really useful, and was one of the most helpful parts of the course in Pembroke - is there any chance or call for expanding the list on the website with other communities and associated lichens?

Just wondering if it would help anyone else as well as me?

Ray has recently revised these notes.

Following up  Barnaby's suggestion, I have now set up a mechanism by which you can choose to receive an email notification when new content (e.g. species accounts, blogs, comments) are added to the website.

To enable this, go to My account > Notification settings and edit the check boxes to suit your needs.

You might also wish to check you have an email address registered - go to My account > Edit to add or change an email address.

Just to alert you all that most of the content on this website is now visible to unregistered, as well as registered users. I'm looking into ways of creating a separate private discussion area for registered users, but in the meantime be aware that any content you create (including blog entries) is publicly visible.

As before, only registered users can make blog entries or add comments.

....I've mentioned this to Tom H recently. We're both into the idea of a summer excusion somewhere in Wales, with the aim of walking somewhere pretty remote, camp overnight, have a nice evening in the wilderness, and note lichens on the way (take a GPS).
Two suggestions are either some remote upland mountain saxicolous/terricolous stuff in Snowdonia, or perhaps get submerged in a wild woodland somewhere for a couple of days? It would be grand if any of the other apprentices would like to join us. I guess this would probably have to be a weekend, most likely in August/early Sept.

This might be of interest to people, if you haven't come across it already.
Theres a recent article in Conservation Biology on conservation planning for lichens on oaks (wood-pasture) in Sweden, but it's relevant to S42 in Wales, incl. Calicium adspersum, Lecanographa amylacea and Chaenotheca phaeocephala (perhaps more relevent to east wales?)

Paletto et al. 2010 - Multispecies and Multiscale Conservation Lichens on Ancient Oaks - Conservation Biology

apart from enjoying the sun this weekend - also had a look for some lichens on the dunes around Oxwich.
from where i was relaxing - got two nice(although common) species:
C.portentosa & P.membranacea. The C.portentosa was a massive sheet a couple of inches deep - very crunchy!
if i hadn't lost my phone the day after - i'd have some nice pics too.