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Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

Synchronicity

...or just spooky co-incidence?

Published 23-Feb-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: commuting, jen

Pemberton, eh?

Google Maps appears to be giving it too much prominence.

Published 22-Feb-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: google, places

50

Conversation at my parents' house on Tuesday.

Published 22-Feb-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: conversations, mum and dad

101!

Happy Birthday to Great Uncle Fred.

Published 19-Feb-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: birthdays, uncle fred

Shades of 'Broadway Danny Rose'

I picked up a business card for a rubber balloon design company in a pub last week.

Published 19-Feb-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: balloons

Happy dog

Molly wags her tail in her sleep.

Published 18-Feb-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: dogs, molly

Archimedes' Screw

Why door handles are better than door knobs.

Published 18-Feb-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: science

Call me a conspiracy theorist but…

BBC makes Prime Minister look yellow!

Published 18-Feb-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: compare and contrast, conspiracy theories, politics

For every action, there is an over-reaction

Anti-smoking inspectors to mingle with pub-goers.

Published 16-Feb-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: smoking

A-pauli-ng pun

I just made one of the cleverest puns of my life.

Published 15-Feb-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: conversations, puns, science

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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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