We’ve now stopped taking orders for free badges because we have officially run out of them in today’s lunge at the pile of membership applications we’ve not had a moment to deal with in the last few months. If you asked for your badge before 4pm today, then it’s in the post, winging its way your way.

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Apologies to everyone who has been waiting for a badge – the Royal Mail website has been royally borked in one way or another for some time now and spending an hour to process a batch of badge mailings, only to find the website in apology mode and all the work and fiddling about wasted is disheartening to say the least. We’ve changed to a much simpler system now and the next few hours we get free, we’ll get rid of the backlog. Thanks for your patience.

The website’s been a bit quiet also and this is subject to the same mismatch of time and aspiration that everyone in the world feels at one time or another. We’re hoping to liven things back up again soon. Meanwhile, if you have a snippet of landscape news you’d like to share, by all means drop us a line through the contact page.

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Author of The Lie of the Land, the BLC’s Ian Vince is in January’s BBC Countryfile magazine for January - out now - with a feature on ten hidden wonders of the British countryside. Ranging from the Ardnamurchan Peninsula in west Scotland to the South Downs of Sussex and taking in Shropshire, a spot of wilderness in the East Midlands and some striped cliffs in East Anglia along the way, the feature ranges over six pages of glorious photography of the British landscape.

For further details check out the Countryfile Magazine website.

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The Landscape Club now has a limited number of signed 1st Edition paperbacks of Ian Vince’s The Lie of the Land in stock for the very reasonable price of £9.50 including P&P.

Click the Buy Now button below to order one securely through PayPal. If you want a personal inscription, send us a note via the contact form and Ian will oblige. Books are sent out the next working day.

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Photo: © 2011 Heather Kavanagh with thanks

It was lovely to hear recently that The Lie of the Land has inspired some of the thinking behind one reader’s retirement Grand Tour. Though only in the early planning stages at the moment, the very idea of Snaptophobic’s trip is particularly heartening because discovering Britain and realising how exotic it really is was one of the guiding thoughts behind the book and the club.

Do check out the rest of her blog as well.

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