Skip to content
Gruts

Gruts

🦆

  • Home
  • Contents
  • About
  • Books
  • Random

Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

Put 'em away, Kate: we've seen 'em plenty of times already

Kate Winslet has got a pair of golden globes.

Published 18-Jan-2009
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: cinema, kate winslet

Tossed aside like a small bag of wet turds

Jim Hodgson reviews the last three or four minutes of 'The Hills Have Eyes II'.

Published 15-Jan-2009
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: films, hodgson, movies

Happy Birthday, you big dummy!

It's Captain Beefheart's birthday.

Published 15-Jan-2009
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: captain beefheart, music, videos

Not dead

Sorry there have been so few updates recently.

Published 11-Jan-2009
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: gruts, videos

Nowhere near as interesting as it sounds

Haddock charged over feud murder.

Published 07-Jan-2009
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: fish

Lor' blimey, guvna!

Word 'school' is out for new £4.7m Sheffield primary.

Published 03-Jan-2009
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: education, political correctness

Compare and Contrast

Matisse nude v Stephen Hawking.

Published 03-Jan-2009
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: compare and contrast

What better way to get Darwin Bicentenary Year off to a flying start

…than by showing a scientifically accurate and not at all gratuitous video of the evolution of a sexy, German robo-chick?

Published 01-Jan-2009
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: charles darwin, evolution, videos

Brrrrrrrr!!!

A happy and bloody cold new year to you all.

Published 01-Jan-2009
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: energy, weather, windpowerstations

Minus 3½

It's -3.5°C outside.

Published 31-Dec-2008
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: weather

Posts pagination

Newer posts Page 1 … Page 164 … Page 330 Older posts

BUY MY BOOK!

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
Buy at Amazon: UK | .com | etc.

RECENT PHOTOS

More photos »

RECENT READING

RECENT COMMENTS

  1. Oven on FAQ: Why is this website called Gruts?

    According to this book I have, ‘The Scots Dialect Dictionary’, published by Waverley Books Ltd, “grut” is “the refuse of…

  2. Tony Hollick on Decrepitude

    Happy birthday from the Nite Owl

  3. Jacky on Book review: ‘Is a River Alive?’ by Robert Macfarlane

    Dear Richard, I am browsing reviews of Is a river alive. Nobody dare pointing at the naked king. To take…

  4. Chris S on Bobby Brewster

    I remember H E Todd visiting our school in Caister-on-Sea in Norfolk in 1973 or 1974. It was a real…

  • @friendsofdarwin on Twitter
  • My Facebook page
  • My Instagram account
  • My photos on Flickr
Gruts

Made in Europe