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Year: 2010

Book porn

Video taken in my favourite second-hand bookshop.

Published 05-Dec-2010
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: books, stense, videos

How not to take a self-portrait

A few simple guidelines if you want to take a portrait of yourself and an old friend who happens to be visiting from out-of-town.

Published 04-Dec-2010
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: photography, stense, videos

Tell us something we don't know

Hebden Bridge wins top award as best town in Britain, total non-shock!

Published 27-Nov-2010
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: hebden bridge, yorkshire

Be honest, you've seen this coming for a long time…

Your host finally loses it.

Published 21-Nov-2010
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: me, photography

Lovely couple

I see Prince William has finally plucked up the courage to propose to Kate Winslet.

Published 20-Nov-2010
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: kate winslet, royal weddings

Parking mad

Councils lobby government to raise parking fines.

Published 20-Nov-2010
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: mathematics, motoring

400,000 not out

As at 00:45am this morning, I was 400,000 hours old.

Published 19-Nov-2010
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: me

Swimming: overrated

When you think about it, isn't swimming a pretty odd thing to learn at school?

Published 15-Nov-2010
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: school, swimming

Two-faced

Terry Eagleton certainly seems to have a Janus fixation.

Published 07-Nov-2010
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: compare and contrast, lrb, pseuds, terry eagleton

Hugging trees while Rome burns

Some clueless twat with more money that sense has just erected a wind turbine on the moor above our house.

Published 07-Nov-2010
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: wind turbines, windpowerstations

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On the Moor

On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk
“…wonderfully droll, witty and entertaining… At their best Carter’s moorland walks and his meandering intellectual talk are part of a single, deeply coherent enterprise: a restless inquiry into the meaning of place and the nature of self.”
—Mark Cocker, author and naturalist
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