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Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

Recommended reading

Guardian recommends books on eating pigs and weeds to vegetarians.

Published 09-Dec-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: books, cooking, vegetarianism

Strong winds blowing across the Trossachs

Wind turbine destroyed by gales.

Published 08-Dec-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: energy, windpowerstations

Peer review

Peers 'should end Downton Abbey-style succession rules'.

Published 07-Dec-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: politics

Daddy, I'm scared!

Video: BigMetalTower Parts 01 02 03 - by Outa_Spaceman

Published 07-Dec-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: outa_spaceman, videos

'Come on, sweet Caroline…'

Carolyn gets Quo tickets!

Published 06-Dec-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: carolyn, music

Technical note

About recent Gruts technical difficulties.

Published 06-Dec-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: admin

Prior art

Stippled artwork bears uncanny resemblance to scan shown in old Gruts post.

Published 06-Dec-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: art, compare and contrast, videos

Dues process

European Commission asks the United Kingdom to pay due amounts of garlic customs duties to EU budget.

Published 05-Dec-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: europe, food, politics

Pandering to the masses

BBC: Who, What, Why: How do you fly a panda 5,000 miles?

Published 05-Dec-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: aircraft

Outraged of Hebden Bridge

Last night, I dreamt that I caught the end of a piece on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, in which some feminist was spouting bollocks about Charles Darwin.

Published 05-Dec-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: bbc, charles darwin, correspondence, dreams, feminism

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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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