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Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

Go and get a proper job!

I don't get the point of people who pretend to be statues.

Published 28-Apr-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: liverpool

I wonder who asked them to say that

Senior figures in the Iraqi government have said Prince Harry should not serve in the country.

Published 28-Apr-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: ginners, nasty little ginger shit, royalty

British innovation in action inaction

The French leave us standing re. nuclear energy.

Published 27-Apr-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: compare and contrast, energy, nuclear power

Dimensional delusions

Adding cream cakes to the colour blue.

Published 25-Apr-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: mathematics, tricks

Define 'pedantic'

Businessman decimated.

Published 23-Apr-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: language

Fishy

Conversation in the kitchen at work last Friday.

Published 22-Apr-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: conversations

Saving the planet

It's not easy being green.

Published 21-Apr-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: compost, environment

Ready when you are, Mr Carter

Some videos of my parents' puppy, Molly.

Published 19-Apr-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: dogs, films, molly, movies, videos

Carrot fly

From the Guardian Magazine's Gardening section two weeks ago.

Published 15-Apr-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: books, gardening

Silent movie

Stense sent me a belated birthday present yesterday.

Published 15-Apr-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: films, italy, movies, stense

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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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