Apologies for the lack of updates recently.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Brum
I have been to Birmingham.
Small steps
On the death of Neil Armstrong.
Inexperienced heraldry
Nabokov quote. Discuss.
StarWars™ neck-accoutrement pun challenge
In which I challenge my reader to think of a StarWars™ run.
Granta 120: Medicine
John Freeman (ed.) An anthology of illness and its treatment. This edition of Granta is themed around illness and its treatment. As ever, my advice to the reader is to skip anything which is obviously fiction, and concentrate on the factual (some of which is first-person fiction, but it is impossible to tell unless you… Continue reading Granta 120: Medicine
Fighting for Birds: 25 Years in Nature Conservation
by Mark Avery. An experienced pragmatist describes the minefield that is nature conservation. I downloaded this book to my Kindle after hearing Mark Avery interviewed on episode 94 of Charlie Moores' excellent Talking Naturally podcast. Avery is the outspoken former Conservation Director of the RSPB. He is also a scientist and a pragmatist. Fighting For… Continue reading Fighting for Birds: 25 Years in Nature Conservation
Putting the Olympics into perspective
Comparing the 2012 London Olympics medals haul of four countries.
Book review: ‘Deep Country’ by Neil Ansell
Five years in the Welsh hills.
Werner Herzog on Chickens
A video.