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Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

Spotted in Waterstones today

Building Self-Confidence for Dummies.

Published 05-Feb-2009
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: books

We have the technology

A big hello from Pret a Manger in Liverpool.

Published 05-Feb-2009
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: mobile

Just like Cary Grant

The real reason why I shall be travelling to Italy by train.

Published 01-Feb-2009
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: environment, films, florence, italy, jen, movies, trains, travel

When heroes align

Sir David Attenborough on Charles Darwin.

Published 30-Jan-2009
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: attenborough, charles darwin, videos

What is oozing out of our ground?

American woman outraged by rainbows.

Published 28-Jan-2009
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: rainbows, science, videos

Tip not included

In which I receive a request for one of my photos to appear in a book about circumcision.

Published 24-Jan-2009
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: beagle project, penises, photography

Extinction event

Eyak language dies with its last speaker.

Published 21-Jan-2009
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: injuns, jen, language

Life's too short

Guardian identifies '1000 Novels Everyone Must Read'.

Published 18-Jan-2009
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: books

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

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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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