Someone should write a browser extension to change every use of the word(s) ‘PM’ or ‘Prime Minister’ to ‘Knobhead’.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Book review: ‘The Circling Sky’ by Neil Ansell
On nature and belonging in an ancient forest.
There’s no present like the time
My watch is 40 years old today… …a 16th birthday present from my mum. £85—bought in instalments from the Littlewoods catalogue. Thanks, mum.
Book review: ‘How to Take Smart Notes’ by Sönke Ahrens
One simple technique to boost writing, learning and thinking: for students, academics and nonfiction book writers.
Book review: ‘To the Lighthouse’ by Virginia Woolf
Streams of consciousness in the Hebrides.
Book review: ‘Congenial Spirits’ by Virginia Woolf
The selected letters of Virginia Woolf.
Equinox
I get that ‘equi-nox’ = ‘equal night’, but what we all really want to know is who’s this Vernon chap it’s named after? Postscript (5 hours later): OK, so, the Internet is weird. Someone on Twitter has just thanked me for the above crappy joke, which he immediately used as the inspiration for a short… Continue reading Equinox
Book review: ‘Gone’ by Michael Blencowe
A search for what remains of the world’s extinct creatures.
That’s far more polite than I would have put it.
Guardian: People with extremist views less able to do complex mental tasks, research suggests
Jabsolutely nothing to declare
BBC: Covid: Minister rules out vaccine passports in UK Apparently, nobody could agree what colour they should be.