BBC: '100 invited' to Downing Street garden lockdown drinksAs many as 100 people were invited to a “bring-your-own-booze” drinks event in the Downing Street garden during the first lockdown, it is understood. […] But Boris Johnson has declined to say whether he was among those there. (See what I did, there?)
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
2021 in a nutshell
My eleventh annual video slideshow of the year.
Book review: ‘A Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year’ edited by Jane McMorland Hunter
A poetry anthology.
Book review: ‘Birdsong in a Time of Silence’ by Steven Lovatt
A celebration of birdsong during a pandemic.
Book review: ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’ by Dylan Thomas
A Christmas classic, wonderfully illustrated by Peter Bailey.
Book review: ‘Horizon’ by Barry Lopez
Memoir, place and empathy.
Punning the depths
Jen accidentally dropped a prune down our kitchen plughole yesterday… I asked whether we needed to call a plummer.
Book review: ‘Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere’ by Jan Morris
Place writing at its finest, and most personal.
Book review: ‘Pedro and Ricky Come Again’ by Jonathan Meades
Selected Writing 1988-2020.
Book review: ‘Speak, Silence’ by Carole Angier
In search of W.G. Sebald.