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Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

Sometimes, words are inadequate

A pie meets its end.

Published 02-Apr-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: death, photographs, pies

Killed by monkeys

King Alexander of Greece, that is.

Published 02-Apr-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: death, monkeys, royalty

Pict on someone your own size

Say what you like about that old scoundrel Máel Brigte the Bucktoothed, but he certainly had style.

Published 01-Apr-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: death

Giving the punters what they want

You asked for more knockers on Gruts, and I am happy to oblige.

Published 31-Mar-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: gruts website, murdoch, puns

Crumbling at the seams

That last bastion of liberal impartiality (Rupert Murdoch) is under treat.

Published 30-Mar-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: murdoch, twitter

Rrrrrrrreet Petite!

Eric Bristow and Jocky Wilson were not synonymous.

Published 27-Mar-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: autobiography, language, sport

Turbine update

Local turbine has not turned for over three months shock.

Published 26-Mar-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: wind turbines, windpowerstations

Whey-Aye Five-O!

Some Geordie surfers last week.

Published 25-Mar-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: northumberland

Book review: ‘The Trial’ by Franz Kafka

Don't bother.

Published 25-Mar-2012
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Fiction Tags: reviews
‘Aftermath’ by Ronald Blythe

Book review: ‘Aftermath’ by Ronald Blythe

Selected writings, 1960–2010.

Published 25-Mar-2012
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Culture Tags: reviews, ronald blythe

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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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