by Stephen Moss. The Natural History of an English village. In Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, Stephen Moss records, on a month-by-month basis throughout a single year, his encounters with nature on or near his local patch on the Somerset Levels. I enjoyed it very much. Harry Brockway's excellent scraperboard illustrations, which appear at the start… Continue reading Wild Hares and Hummingbirds
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Durrr!
Why do men become Catholic priests?
Greecing the wheels of economic recovery
In which I come up with a brilliant solution to Greece's financial problems.
Gruts in a nutshell
Some recent Google search requests.
Going native
Over ten years, I've lived in Yorkshire, and it's finally starting to rub off.
On yer bloody bikes!
Environment Minister wants water companies to look at the possibility of connecting pipe networks so they could transfer water from wetter parts of the country.
The importance of punctuation
Rupert Murdoch has not been arrested. Yet.
Leviathan or, the Whale
by Philip Hoare. A wonderful history of man's relationship with the whale. Philip Hoare's meticulously researched book, which is destined to become a classic, tells you pretty much everything you need to know about man's historical relationship with whales. It's a fascinating read. The book shares the same subtitle, or, The Whale, as Herman Melville's… Continue reading Leviathan or, the Whale
Not from round these parts
Chaos reigned in Hebden Bridge yesterday morning, as the main shopping street was closed to traffic on market day to allow Yorkshire Bank to film a TV advertisement.
Totalitarian secularists? Really?!
Britain being overtaken by 'militant secularists', says Baroness Warsi.