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Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

Compare and Contrast

Baby tapir v courgette.

Published 02-Apr-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: compare and contrast, tapirs, vegetables

Holey temple

In which I visit the Pantheon.

Published 01-Apr-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: pantheon, religion, rome

The Talking With Americans Game

Can you beat them to the faux pas?

Published 01-Apr-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: americans, games

Ginger Jesus!

Was Our Saviour a carrot-top?

Published 01-Apr-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: art, ginners, iconography, jesus, religion, virgin mary

JPII's first miracle?

Could sainthood be on the way for John Paul II?

Published 31-Mar-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: italy, pope, religion, vatican

Separated at birth

Saint Dionysius and Charles Darwin.

Published 31-Mar-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: charles darwin, compare and contrast, pope, religion, saints

The Hit-Nun

In which Jen narrowly escapes a would-be assassin/nun.

Published 31-Mar-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: games, italy, jen, nuns, religion

They're right, you know…

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Published 31-Mar-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: italy, rome

The Sistine Chapel Game

...take a photo without being caught.

Published 30-Mar-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: games, photography, religion

It's a small world…

Hitchin is off to Rome on Monday.

Published 30-Mar-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: hitchin, rome

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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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